** 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,...
The Daily Mail and Independent both cover the investigation launched by British Transport Police after a video clip of a woman racially abusing an Asian man on London Underground was uploaded onto YouTube. The video was uploaded on April 11th and shows the woman hurl a tirade of racist abuse at a...
Ian Birrell in the Guardian today pens a column about the three Christians who are set to take their cases of ‘religious persecution’ to the European Court of Human Rights and anti-Muslim bigotry in the UK. The Daily Telegraph reports that papers will be lodged with the ECHR by lawyers acting...
There is some coverage today (Independent, Guardian and BBC News) about the resignation of Conservative councillor, John Cherry, who stoked a race row by suggesting in an interview with the Mail on Sunday that Pakistani students were unlikely to ‘rise to the top’ and that certain nationalities...
The Daily Mail reports that a councillor and former local mayor who branded all Muslims ‘terrorists’ has apologized for her comments whilst undertaking equality and diversity training. Marjorie Snowden made the remarks during a training day on equalities. Trainer, Sue Bickle, complained to West...
Local paper, The Bristol Post, reports that the head of the English Defence League Bristol branch, Michael Bayliss, has been released after being arrested and bailed in connection with racist graffiti sprayed onto the walls of a mosque in the city last September. Bayliss and another man were...
There is another letter published in the News Shopper concerning the English National Resistance’s planned protest against the NWK Muslim Association in Crayford against its ‘sexist’ mosque signs. A previous letter in the newspaper written by a local resident encouraged people to visit the...
Local paper, Cambridge News, reports on an attack of vandalism on the Mill Road mosque building. Offensive, racist graffiti was daubed on the walls of the building including the words “terrorist scumbags”. The Mill Road mosque project has been the target of consistent anti-Muslim sentiment in...
The Independent and Daily Mail today both cover the twitter messages posted by a Fox News presenter, Erik Rush, in response to the bomb blasts at the Boston Marathon on Sunday. Rush, in a reactionary move, appeared to be blaming Saudis for the attack tweeting: “@erikrush Everybody do the National...
Local paper, News Shopper, reports that a protest by the English National Resistance against ‘sexist’ signs at the local mosque will take place on Saturday 18th May. The ENR, led by former BNP councillor Paul Golding, have taken exception to signs displayed at the NWK Muslim Association in...
The local paper, Daily Echo, reports on the set up of a police surgery at the Abu Bakr mosque in Southampton. The surgery, the first such initiative in the city, will see police officers meet and address concerns of Muslims living in Southampton through regular surgery hours at the mosque on the...
