** 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,...
BBC News reports that local residents and leaders of Millfield in Sunderland have criticised external groups who have been engaging in protests and stirring up trouble over a mosque in the area which recently received building approval by Sunderland City Council. The criticism comes after protests...
BBC News reports of the concerns expressed by members of the House of Lords over the delayed publication of the report by Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq war. The report may now be delayed until 2013, ten years after the invasion. From the BBC: “Peers have expressed concerns about the length of...
The Guardian has published an article by Lucy Snow, editor of the Leeds university student newspaper, Leeds Student, in which she defends her decision to publish an interview with the leader of the far-right British National Party and MEP for North West England, Nick Griffin, in the paper. The NUS...
The website, Vice, has published an article by Simon Childs on a recent BNP protest outside BBC Broadcasting House erroneously conflating the Jimmy Savile scandal with ‘fighting grooming gangs’. Childs comments on “how certain organisations with long-held grudges against the BBC have hijacked...
Douglas Murray on Spectator blogs writes about the recent parliamentary debate introduced by Baroness Cox on her Arbitration and Mediation Services (Equality) Bill,’ or the bill on ‘shari’ah courts’ as its most commonly understood. Murray argues that the government ‘[has] kick[ed] the...
The Observer review yesterday carried a feature article on the newest member of the Le Pen family to enter French politics for the National Front, Marion Maréchal Le Pen. Talking about FN policies on the economy, Europe and immigration, Maréchal Le Pen explains why the FN would like to strip...
Islamophobia Watch covers the suspended jail sentence handed down to man who posted comments on his Facebook page encouraging people to petrol bomb an Indian takeaway in Carlisle because its owner was implicated in a sex grooming scandal. From the local paper:“A former hospital worker involved...
The Sunday Express published a comment piece by Geraint Jones on the possibility of the far right being handed an advantage in the Police and Crime Commissioner elections on November 15th on account of low voter turnout. The Sunday Express commissioned a poll which seems to reinforce fears that...
News agency Reuters publicises the results of a poll published in French newspaper, le Figaro, which shows that “an increasing majority of people in France believe Islam plays too influential a role in their society and almost half see Muslims as a threat to their national identity”....
The chief executive of the Professional Footballers’ Association has outlined its plans for new and stricter measures to tackle and monitor racism in football. The six point plan, including a commitment to tackling Islamophobia, has been drawn up following a number of racist incidents arising...
