** 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 on the sentencing of a man who viciously attacked a 16 year old girl last November, knocking her to the ground with a punch to the head. Michael Ayoade, who has been sentenced to four years imprisonment, pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm. BBC News reports...
BBC News reports that police made four arrests during the English Defence League protest in Cambridge on Saturday while local paper, Cambridge News, details that a 56 year old man and 23 year old have been charged with “racially aggravated public order offence and assaulting a police officer”...
Islamophobia Watch covers the trial of two women arrested for their part in a racially aggravated attack on a Kurdish family in Plymouth. The women, who joined an English Defence League meeting earlier, were among a group of people who attacked the Kurdish family abusing them with taunts such as...
The Huddersfield Examiner reports on the trial outcome of a woman arrested for an altercation involving an Asian man during the English Defence League protest in Dewsbury last June. Kirklees magistrates’ court heard that the woman, Karen Marsden, “joined in offensive chanting as part of the EDL...
BBC News today covers news on the closing of Friday prayer facilities for Muslim students by City University in London. The University claims to have locked the room used by Muslim students because students “had refused to submit the proposed content of sermons [khutbah] to the university before...
AC Grayling in the Independent dwells on the release yesterday of data concerning the number of faith schools that have applied for free school status. Adumbrating the superior rationality of the humanist, Grayling critiques the capacity of faith schools to engage in teaching methods that teach a...
Local paper, Cambridge News, reports on details released over the proposed demonstration by the East Anglia branch of the English Defence League against the Mill Road mosque in Cambridge. The paper broke news of the EDL’s intention to demonstrate late last year and today publishes further details...
The website politics.co.uk covers figures released by the Electoral Commission today on party political donations in the final quarter of 2012 (Oct-Dec). According to the website, the figures show a substantial increase in donations and bequests made to the British National Party. The report notes,...
The Independent today covers the Freedom of Information request lodged by the British Humanist Association to learn of the number of religious groups that have submitted applications to run free schools. The Independent notes: “The figures show that 132 of the 517 applications to open free...
Regional paper, the Birmingham Mail, reports on the serving of non-halal food to Muslim schoolchildren at Moseley School. The local council launched an investigation in December after being alerted to the claims by the school. The incident occurred on December 12th though details are only just...
