** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** Rights group Muslim Engagement & Development (MEND) have launched a new report The Great Debunk: Challenging Islamophobic Conspiracy Theories, which examines how false narratives about Muslims once limited to the far-right fringes have entered mainstream political,...
Asian Image reports on a hate crime reported in Bolton, Lancashire in which a mosque was defaced with graffiti and a car in the nearby car park vandalised. The local paper reports that the exterior wall of the Masjid-e-Usman was spray-painted with the words ‘Islam = Evil’ while a parked car in...
Regional news site, Wales Online, reports on a hate crime against a mosque in Cardiff, south Wales. Strips of bacon were left at the entrance of the Shah Jalal mosque, in Cathays, Cardiff, on Wednesday night. Secretary of the Muslim Council of Wales, Saleem Kidwai, told the news site: “They left...
UTV reports on a hate crime incident involving an Islamic centre in Belfast, Northern Ireland on Thursday. Police are investigating after a milk bottle of paint was allegedly thrown at the building. The site notes that local police are treating the incident as a hate crime. It reports that “Two...
BBC News reports on the court appearance of a 43 year old man charged with ‘affray and two counts of possessing a weapon’ after he was arrested following an attack on an Islamic centre in Braintree, Essex. The attack was a second suspected ‘revenge attack’, following the murder of Drummer,...
BBC News reports that a man has been charged with ‘religiously-aggravated criminal damage and burglary’, after he allegedly targeted the mosque in Gillingham, Kent, in a revenge attack following the horrific murder of Drummer, Lee Rigby, in Woolwich on Wednesday. Councillor David Parr, of...
BBC News reports on an investigation launched by Lincolnshire Police into racist and anti-Muslim comments allegedly made by UKIP councillor, Chris Pain, on Facebook. The Sunday Mirror last week covered various cases of racist and bigoted comments posted on social networking sites by some of...
As details of the horrific crime committed in Woolwich yesterday emerge and preliminary evidence suggests the involvement of a man motivated by an Al-Qaeda inspired narrative, we wish to bring to your attention the utter and universal condemnation expressed by Muslim leaders and organisations...
The Independent today reports that a group of MPs have written to the Culture Secretary, Maria Miller, setting out reasons for rejecting the PressBoF Charter on press regulation. The press industry led by newspaper groups – Associated Newspapers, Express Newspapers, Trinity Mirror, News...
The newspapers today cover extensively the horrific murder of a young man, believed to have been a member of the British Armed Forces, in an indescribably brutal attack in Woolwich yesterday. As details emerge on the motives of the murderers, the religious exclamations and rants uttered at the...
BBC News reports on the results of DNA tests conducted on halal burgers which in earlier testing were found to contain pork DNA. Leicester City Council removed the burgers from menus from a number of schools in the county but BBC News reports that further testing shows no contamination of the meat....
