** 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,...
You can read the reply from the US Ambassador to the UK to our letter on the tragic death of the US Ambassador to Libya, J. Christopher Stevens, here.
The Daily Mail reports ahead of this week’s publication of the official inquiry into child sexual exploitation with claims that the final report “will fail to highlight the targeting of white girls by Pakistani men.” The inquiry, led by the deputy children’s commissioner for England, Sue...
The Daily Star on Sunday carried an article, featured on its front page yesterday, on a ‘fatwa’ issued by Anjem Choudary on the Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai, who was recently shot by the Taliban for her activism on the issue of women’s education. The paper states that “British-based...
The Bristol Post reports on the arrest of two local men, one of them the leader of the English Defence League in Bristol, in relation to incidents of criminal damage against two mosques and a Sikh temple in the Redfield area of the city. The letters ‘EDL’ were spray-painted onto the...
Mail on Sunday columnist, Peter Hitchens, regurgitated his ‘Eurabia’ style antipathy for Muslims in a short column in yesterday’s paper. Hitchens, writing on the recent ruling by the appeals court on Abu Qatada, suggests that “The real Islamist threat to Britain comes from mass immigration...
The Sunderland Echo, Sky Tyne and Wear, and ITV have all reported on arrests at a protest which took place in Sunderland at the weekend against a planned mosque. The local paper reports that around 20 members of the Northern Patriotic Front (NPF) gathered outside the mosque site. Around 60...
The Independent on Saturday published an article looking at the survey conducted by YouGov for The Sun newspaper on the issue of press regulation found and published in the paper last week. According to the YouGov poll 42% of people favour media self-regulation and almost two thirds of those polled...
The Leicester Mercury, Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Independent and Daily Express have all reported on the controversy and upset caused by the remarks of celebrity chef, Clarissa Dickson-Wright, in her new book in which she describes a visit to a part of Leicester as “the most frightening...
Media output in the past few days has been dominated by coverage and commentary on the escalation of deadly violence in Gaza with Israel once again bombarding the territory. An editorial in the Independent yesterday warned that “the killing of Mr Jabari…amounts to a new declaration of war on...
The notorious anti-Muslim website, Harry’s Place, featured an article by pseudonymous blogger Lucy Lips on Islam Channel CEO Mohamed Ali Harrath, claiming he was ‘leaping to the defence’ of Abu Qatada following the appeal court’s decision to release him from detention. HP cites comments...
