** 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,...
ITV News reports on the attendance by members of the English Defence League of a protest outside Radstock Town hall at the weekend after newspaper reports last week claimed that the local council had removed the St George’s flag from flagpoles on civic buildings for fear of ‘offending...
Local paper, West End Extra, reports on the reinforcement of police patrols in the Edgeware Road area of west London after an incident last week resulted in an alleged case of violent assault. A YouTube video of footage from the sectarian march organized by Anjem Choudary and his acolytes shows a...
Taj Hargey crops up in the Daily Mail today with a guest column titled, ‘The Oxford sex ring and the preachers who teach young Muslim men that white girls are cheap’. Needless to say Hargey is called upon to ‘speak the unspeakable’ – that the media is blinkered by political correctness in...
Press reform campaign group Hacked Off are urging people to write to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, to object to the rival Royal Charter proposed by newspaper groups Associated Newspapers, Express Newspapers, Trinity Mirror, News international and Telegraph Media Group. The...
The Guardian reports on the Orwell Prize winner, Professor A T Williams, for his book on the brutal death of Baha Mousa at the hands of British soldiers serving in Iraq. Mousa died in September 2003 as a result of injuries sustained from beatings and cruel treatment at the hands of soldiers...
There is some coverage in newspapers today on the decision of a local authority in Somerset not to fly the flag of St George on civil buildings. The coverage invariably rehashes the ‘offensive to Muslims’ narrative with the Daily Mail headlining ‘Rural council votes to stop flying flag of St...
Hilary Aked on Huffington Post looks at The Times front page story earlier this week based on a report about ‘radical’ speakers on university campuses released by Student Rights. Aked questions the methodology employed by co-authors, Raheem Kassam and Rupert Sutton, and the patent attempt to...
The Birmingham Mail reports on an incident of religiously aggravated harassment carried out by a man believed to be a Muslim against a fellow Muslim local resident. The local paper reports that a pig’s head was left outside the home of Shafique Rehman in October last year. The family suffered...
Local newspapers’ portal, This is Local London, reports that the planned protest by the English National Resistance against the NWK Muslim Association in Crayford has been cancelled. The ENR had planned a protest on May 18th against what it considered ‘gender apartheid’, taking exception to...
Paul Vallely in The Independent today covers the Oxford sex grooming trial which concluded yesterday. The trial has raised issues similar to those which surfaced during the trial of nine men convicted of sexual grooming and exploitation of young girls in Rochdale namely, race, religion and sex...
