** 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,...
Kent local paper, Isle of Thanet Gazette, reports on the exit of the area organizer for the English Defence League after the paper investigated anti-Islam comments posted on his Facebook page. Gary Field, who posts under the pseudonym Pat Riot, posted comments like “Islam is evil”,...
The Warwick Courier reports on the sentencing of a 16 year old convicted of manslaughter after he attacked 21-year old Saleem Hassan with a baseball bat outside a mosque in Small Heath, Birmingham last June. The youth has been sentenced to 4 years in a youth detention facility.
BBC News reports on the establishment of a ‘Centre for Fascist, Anti-Fascist and Post-Fascist Studies’ at Teesside University. The centre, to open in July, will be lead by Professor Nigel Copsey and Dr Matthew Feldman and will “examine far right political development and culture since its...
The Communities and Local Government select committee has published the findings of an inquiry into the role of local councillors in the UK. The inquiry looked into a number of issues including the nature of councillor- local community relationship; the recruitment of councillors; barriers and...
The Guardian today covers the leak of two versions of a “highly sensitive military witness statement” which illustrates “the dangers of government plans to expand secret courts”. The document concerns the details of a case involving an Afghan detainee who was arrested by British forces and...
The Hull Daily Mail reports on the conviction of a man who stole a CCTV camera from the Masjid Al Sahaba mosque in Hull. The man was apprehended after readers of the local papers responded to a ‘Caught On Camera’ campaign to identify criminals caught on CCTV. The report states that Shaun...
BBC News, the Independent and the Daily Telegraph have all reported on the $5.8million payout by a US based private defence company to 71 Iraqis who alleged they were tortured in the company run prisons and detention centres in Iraq. The victims include former detainees of the notorious Abu Ghraib...
The National Secular Society reports on the ‘collapse’ of the trial of a man charged with causing “religiously aggravated intentional harassment, alarm or distress by demonstrating hostility based on membership of a particular religious group” after he tore pages from a copy of the...
The Guardian and The Times (£) today cover the Labour Party’s strategy to target 106 constituencies for the 2015 general election. The party has hired one of President Barack Obama’s advisers, Arnie Graf, to train 1000 staff to run campaigns in the target constituencies, building on the grass...
News website, The Local, draws our attention to a study by academics at the University of Bielefeld, in Bielefeld, Germany, which demonstrates an increase in Islamophobia in Germany with Muslims becoming the “new targets of prejudice and exclusion”. The findings are part of a ten-year research...
