** 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,...
Matthew Norman in his column in The Independent yesterday picked up on the apology by Rupert Murdoch and the acting editor of the Sunday Times, Martin Ivens, for the cartoon published in last week’s edition that sparked accusations of anti-Semitism, as well as comments made by David Ward MP...
The Sun profiles four Muslim converts in today’s paper ahead of the BBC3 programme tonight, Make Me a Muslim. The article states: “Every year, more than 5,000 Brits convert to Islam. “More than half of those who make the switch are white – and 75 per cent are women.” The...
The Times (£) front page story today covers the latest intervention by the Conservatives as part of their campaign strategy to “woo Black and Asian voters” urging companies to disclose the ethnic makeup of their workforce. The paper reports: “David Cameron has told the Cabinet to come up...
The EU Observer covers comments by the EU’s Commissioner for Home Affairs, Cecilia Malmstrom, on the threat posed by far right parties to the European project and the European Parliament elections in 2014. EU Observer notes: “Far-right political discourse is feeding hatred throughout the EU and...
The Sunday Express published a rather disturbing column by guest writer Mark Piggott, author of Out of Office, last week. Piggott’s column is replete with a number of inaccuracies and false correlations, as he takes aim at the speech by Baroness Warsi last week on the “underlying, unfounded...
The Scottish Sun, the best-selling daily’s Scotland edition, published a feature article yesterday on Scottish Muslim convert Alana Blockley (pictured) and her journey into Islam. Blockley, a Glaswegian, is one of five Muslim converts who will feature in a BBC3 programme to be broadcast on...
The Birmingham Mail covers a protest in the city on Saturday organised by an offshoot of the English Defence League, the English Volunteer Force. Around 50 protestors from the EVF gathered in the city’s Centenary Square, while a similar number of counter demonstrators from Unite Against...
Three of six men convicted of racially or religiously aggravated public disorder have had their convictions quashed and fines and legal costs slashed according to a report in local Teesside paper, the Evening Gazette. The six men, all linked to the English Defence League, were arrested for shouting...
BBC News reports on two teenagers who have been charged with “five offences of racially aggravated criminal damage and four offences of causing criminal damage” following investigations into racist graffiti sprayed onto properties in Woking, Surrey last November. Surrey Police reports...
This report contains details of incidents of anti-Muslim hate crimes which have been reported in local and national media in the UK and which form part of our regular monitoring of such incidents for submission to the Office for Security and Co-operation in Europe. The incidents detailed here are...
