** 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,...
Local paper, the East London Advertiser, reports that the English Defence League plans to return to the East End with a protest on August 24th, as announced on the far right group’s Facebook page. Mayor of Tower Hamlets, Lutfur Rahman, has stated his intention to lobby the Home Secretary, Theresa...
BBC News follows up on the story in the Sunday Mirror last week concerning UKIP councillor for Stourport-on-Severn, Eric Kitson, and anti-Muslim posts found on his Facebook page. Kitson displayed a cartoon of “a Muslim being spit-roasted on a fire fuelled by copies of the Koran” according to...
The Times (£) today features as its cover story a report by Student Rights on ‘extremist’ speakers on university campuses in the past year and incidents of segregation at Islamic society events. The article references speakers such as Haitham al-Haddad, Hamza Tzortzis, and Abu Usamah...
The Sunday Mirror yesterday covered yet another case of a UKIP member espousing anti-Muslim attitudes. Eric Kitson, the newly elected councillor for Stourport, Worcestershire, displayed a cartoon on his Facebook page of “a Muslim being spit-roasted on a fire fuelled by copies of the Koran”...
The Guardian covers the publication of research undertaken by the Media Standards Trust into press coverage in the 100 days prior to the publication of the Leveson Inquiry report last November. The study analyses press coverage from 14th July 2011, the day after the Leveson Inquiry was announced,...
Local paper, Dumfries and Galloway Standard, reports on the horror expressed by a local couple whose letter of objection to the local council regarding a planning application by a Muslim group has been exploited by the Scottish Defence League. The local paper reports that the SDL “copied a...
There is considerable coverage in local and national press today (Manchester Evening News, Leicester Mercury, Yorkshire Post, Independent, Guardian, ITV and BBC News), on the detection of pork DNA in ‘halal’ burgers supplied to Leicester City Council. The Council has removed the food from...
Local paper, The Comet, reports on the ‘Hate Crime Awareness Day’ launched by Hertfordshire constabulary. The paper notes an anti-Muslim hate crime against a mosque in Stevenage which was defaced with pork and dog faeces earlier this year. “The mosque in Vardon Road was targeted earlier this...
The Yorkshire Post reports on the correction of a police statement in relation to an English Defence League protest in Leeds last weekend, confirming that a pig’s head was thrown at the site of the pub that is earmarked for conversion into an Islamic community centre. The local paper notes that...
The Daily Mail today features another excerpt from the new book by resident columnist Melanie Phillips. In the paper today Phillips rehearses familiar criticisms of multiculturalism as undermining shared values and slowly decaying principles of the rule of law, parliamentary democracy etc as...
