** 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,...
A new poll looking at American attitudes towards Muslims and the Arab world has been published by the University of Maryland. The poll was carried out this month with a sample size of 737 adults who were asked questions on US foreign aid; the importance of American diplomacy in the Middle East;...
The Rotherham Star and the Yorkshire Post have both reported on protests held over the weekend by the English Defence League and a counter-protest organised by Unite Against Fascism in Rotherham. The EDL claimed to be holding the protest against the ‘sexual exploitation of young girls’...
The Lancashire Telegraph reports that female students at a high school in Blackburn are ‘rebelling’ against the introduction of a ‘uniform’ headscarf. Pleckgate High School has introduced a school policy on headscarves after concerns were voiced on health and safety grounds due to the...
The Observer’s foreign affairs editor, Peter Beaumont, contributed a column to yesterday’s paper reflecting on the popular, Emmy Award-winning American drama, Homeland, and its portrayal of Muslims. Beaumont describes the show’s depiction of Muslims as ‘crude’, ‘childish’ and...
The Independent on Friday published news of seven Royal marines being arrested for the suspected murder of an Afghan insurgent. From the paper: “Seven Royal Marines have been arrested on suspicion of murder while serving in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence revealed last night. “They...
Front page news in the Guardian on Friday was a story detailing a whistleblower’s account on the failure of an inquiry set up to investigate allegations of abuse committed by members of the Armed Forces in Iraq, the Iraq Historic Allegations Team (IHAT), becoming little more than a whitewash....
The Independent today reports that the English Defence League has broken its formal ties to the British Freedom Party and aims to become a political party in time to contest seats at the European Parliamentary elections in 2014. From the Independent: “The far-right English Defence League will be...
The Guardian and Daily Telegraph have both reported on a story which has caused a storm in the French media- a comment and tweet by Jean Francois Cope who is campaigning to lead the centre right French political party, Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), in which he wrote: “There are...
The Guardian has reported that the BBC Trust is to carry out an impartiality review in light of accusations that the BBC has a ‘liberal bias’. The review will focus largely on religion, immigration, Europe as well as possibly looking at the BBC’s coverage of Islamophobia. The review will be...
There has been widespread media coverage this week, on BBC News, and in the Independent, Telegraph, Guardian and Daily Mail as well as local media, of a controversial new sponsorship deal between Newcastle United FC and the loan company, Wonga. Coverage has focussed on the advice from the Muslim...
