** 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 ten-month prison sentence given to the leader of the far-right English Defence League (EDL), Stephen Lennon, for using a friend’s passport to enter the US has been reported across the media, including BBC News, the Independent, Guardian, Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail. The purpose of his...
BBC News and the Guardian have both reported on the publication of a draft ‘Leveson bill’ by the media reform campaign group, Hacked Off. The bill is a response to the report published by Lord Justice Leveson last November into the culture, ethics and practice of the press and future reform of...
The Independent on Sunday carried an article by the paper’s religious affairs correspondent, Jerome Taylor, on the experience of British Somalis being detained and questioned at airports under schedule 7 anti-terrorism powers. The report follows the recent detention of the British Somali double...
Letter to Press Complaints Commission (PCC), 16 January. Letter to the Rt Hon William Hague MP, 23 April. Response from Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 9 August 2013, available here. Letter to Michael King, Vice President of the Methodist Conference, 8 July. Letter to Edward McMillan MEP,...
The London Evening Standard draws our attention to the comments of Tory MP for The Wrekin, Mark Pritchard, to Prime Minister David Cameron’s assertion that the party needs to increase its ethnic minority representation. In an article for Politics Home, Pritchard lambasts the idea of...
BBC News reports that the plans to convert a disused Scouts Hut in Thurnby Lodge, Leicester into an Islamic community centre have been turned down by the city council. The decision follows a consultation with local residents after weeks of protests against the proposals put forward by the As-Salaam...
The UK is one of the few EU Member States which collects and regularly publishes data on the incidence of stop and search on ethnic minorities. The Home Office and Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) have regularly published in this area demonstrating the disproportionate number of stops...
Manchester Evening News reports that the far-right English Defence League is planning a demonstration in the city on 2nd March. According to the paper, “more than 500 people have vowed to attend the march”. It adds that when the EDL visited Manchester city centre in 2009, they were faced with a...
Education journalist Susan Elkin, writes for Independent Voices today weighing in on the recent story on Muslim parents who are taking a Greek Orthodox school to the High Court, after the school banned their daughter from wearing the headscarf, as reported yesterday in the Daily Telegraph and...
The Independent’s religious affairs correspondent, Jerome Taylor, has written an article on French magazine, Charlie Hebdo’s latest go at publishing caricatures of the Prophet Muhammed. The new publication entitled ‘The Life of Mohammed’ claims to be a ‘halal’ comic book biography of...
