** 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,...
BBC News reports that 18 schools in Luton have had halal meals removed from the school canteen after concerns were raised by local Muslim groups over the certification of ‘halal’ produce. BBC News reports: Luton Borough Council, which has served the meat in schools for 15 years, said it had...
Assistant Comment Editor at The Guardian, Joseph Harker, returns to the subject of ‘racialising’ sex crimes drawing attention to recent cases involving TV personalities, Jimmy Savile and Stuart Hall, and care institutions, in Wales and Jersey – to cite some recent examples. Drawing parallels...
The Scotsman, Herald Scotland, Daily Record and BBC News have all reported on the arrest of a 14 year old in relation to a racist attack carried out in the Wester Hailes area of Edinburgh last week. Two women in their early 20s were left “traumatised” by the ordeal that saw two children, an 8...
The Dumfries Courier reports on a demonstration planned by Dumfries TUC on May 18th to counter a protest by the Scottish Defence League. According to the local news reports, the SDL will hold a static protest in Dumfries against “a planning application made on behalf of Dumfries Islamic Society...
Local paper, The Northern Echo reports on UKIP’s suspension of a party canvasser after anti-Muslim and racist comments and photos posted on his Facebook page were discovered. Tony Nixon posted comments such as “Instead of turning Ground Zero into a mosque why not turn some mosques into ground...
The Pew Research Center has published its latest report titled, The World’s Muslims: Religion, Politics and Society. The report looks at Beliefs about Sharia, religion and politics, morality, women in society, relations among Muslims, interfaith relations, religion, science and popular culture,...
Our submission on anti-Muslim hate crimes in the UK to the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe, in preparation of its Hate Crime Report 2012, can be found here.
Columnist and Chief leader Writer of The Times, Daniel Finkelstein, in the paper today (£) argues that whatever the British people may think of Abu Qatada, the fact of the matter is that the rule of law is not something to be casually suspended just so the Home Secretary, Theresa May, can send him...
The Yorkshire Evening Post reports on the planned EDL demonstration against a Leeds pub which is due to be converted into an Islamic community centre after an application submitted by UK Islamic Mission was unanimously approved by the local council. The paper reports on the twitter message by EDL...
The Independent today notes the exploitation by the English Defence League of the guilty pleas entered by six men yesterday for admitting to ‘preparing acts of terrorism’ against an EDL rally in Dewsbury last June. The men, Omar Mohammed Khan, 28, Mohammed Hasseen, 23, Anzal Hussain, 24,...
