** 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,...
Scottish newspaper, The Herald, reports on the mayhem caused by a small group of Scottish Defence League protestors in Pollockshields, a densely Asian populated part of Glasgow, at the weekend. The SDL members, numbering no more than 10 according to the paper, wanted to lay a wreath commemorating...
The Daily Mail today has published an article featuring video footage unearthed by The Commentator which reportedly shows ‘Muslim patrols’ operating in east London. The paper reports, “Police are investigating reports a gang claiming to be Islamic vigilantes have been confronting members of...
Our letter to the Press Complaints Commission on the article appearing in the Evening Standard on Tuesday, ‘Muslim sex ring accused of grooming ‘troubled’ underage girls’, can be read here. .
Local Newcastle newspaper, the Journal, reports on a special meeting held yesterday to discuss proposed plans to convert a disused pub in Shotton Colliery into an Islamic education centre. The plans have attracted local opposition and have been the focus of an English Defence League demonstration...
There’s wide coverage in the papers today on a case being heard at the Old Bailey involving nine men who stand accused of 51 charges relating to sex grooming, underage sex, rape, trafficking and child prostitution – see Daily Telegraph, Independent, Guardian, Daily Express, Daily Star, BBC...
The Dewsbury Reporter covers the sentencing of seven men for offences committed in Dewsbury and Heckmondwike after an English Defence League demonstration in Cleckheaton last March. The men all pleaded guilty to various charges of violent disorder, causing racially aggravated fear of violence and...
One of the leaders of the English Defence League and chairman of the British Freedom Party, Kevin Carroll, has been arrested for inciting racial hatred according to an article in today’s Independent. The Independent reports that a message posted on Facebook by an EDL supporting group states...
Jogchum Vrielink, postdoctoral researcher and coordinator of the Centre for Discrimination Law (Research Centre on Equality Policies at the University of Leuven, and Belgian lawyer, Jelle Flo, critique the decision by the Belgian Constitutional Court last month to reject cases filed against the...
The Mail on Sunday covered an article appearing in The Sunday Times (£) on the self-styled ‘mosque-buster’ Gavin Boby and his boasts of disrupting the progress of mosque planning proposals submitted to local councils. Boby claims to have blocked plans for “16 out of 17 mosques”. Boby, a...
The Birmingham Mail reports on the demonstration by the English Defence League in Solihull, West Midlands, at the weekend. From the local paper: “Shoppers at the Touchwood Centre in Solihull looked on in horror this afternoon (Saturday) as the EDL far right extremists waved flags and shouted...
