** 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 Scotsman newspaper reports on the court appearance of three people charged with a racially prejudiced offence after bacon was thrown at Edinburgh’s Central Mosque. The paper reports that the three individuals, Douglas Cruikshank, 37, Chelsea Lambie, 17, and Wayne Stilwel, 24, have been...
Sky Tyne and Wear reports on the formation of a new alliance against racism in Sunderland, Sunderland Together. The organisation, which was formed partly in response to the continuous protests by the English Defence League against a mosque planning application in the Millfield area, “hopes to...
The Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail last week both reported on The Times’ front page story on Friday (£) about the referral by a High Court judge of a Jewish couple’s divorce case to a Beth Din court. The Daily Telegraph under a headline ‘Sharia divorces could be allowed after legal ruling’...
BBC News reports that the Deputy Mayor of Bingham, Nottinghamshire, Francis Purdue-Horan, has called a meeting of local officials following news reports of the systematic abuse suffered by a Muslim family in the town. Murad Alam, in an interview with BBC Asian Network last week relayed the extent...
The Essex Chronicle reports on an incident of racially aggravated assault on an Asian woman in Colchester. The local paper states that police are appealing for witnesses after the 30 year old woman was “struck to the back of the head while in Military Road at around 4pm on January 28. “She...
BBC News runs a feature on the first ever World Hijab Day which is marked today (1 February). WHD, the brainchild of New Yorker Nazma Khan, encourages “non-Muslim women (or even Muslim women who do not ordinarily wear one) to don the hijab and experience what it’s like to do so, as part of...
Peter Oborne in his column in the Daily Telegraph today lambasts the government’s Justice and Security Bill and its obscuring the ability to “shine a light into the dark corners of our secret state”. Commenting on the Bill’s progress through Parliament and a report into its implications for...
The Guardian reports on the outcome of an investigation by the BBC Editorial Standards Committee (ESC) into a Radio 4 Today programme discussion on the Naqba Day protests in May 2011 after a complaint that presenter John Humphrys had referred to the Golan Heights as being part of Israel. The ESC in...
BBC Asian Network covers the anti-Muslim bigotry experienced by a family in Bingham, Nottinghamshire in a programme broadcast today. Murad Alam, whose family have suffered the indignity of offensive graffiti, verbal abuse and a cross wrapped in ham being left on their doorstep, speaks to the BBC...
BBC News reports on the arrest of a man on suspicion of racially aggravated harassment after he posted abusive messages about Chelsea footballer, Demba Ba, on Facebook. From BBC News: “A 39-year-old man from Gateshead was detained on suspicion of posting the offensive remarks about the former...
