** 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,...
There’s still more in the press today about the new BBC sitcom Citizen Khan which aired on Monday night. The Daily Mail prints comments made by the show’s creator and star, Adil Ray, addressing viewer reactions to certain scenes, Ray tells the paper: “‘Citizen Khan is not a Muslim comedy,...
Local paper, the Skegness Standard, reports on the National Front’s latest target in its slew of anti-Muslim activities, the proposal for a halal abattoir in Skegness. The far right, racist organisation is planning a demonstration in Skegness on Saturday September 15th and distributing flyers...
There is considerable coverage in the press today of reactions to the BBC’s new comedy show, Citizen Khan. The Guardian reports that the BBC may be investigated by Ofcom after 20 complaints were received by the broadcast regulator protesting of the show’s breach of the regulatory code covering...
There is widespread coverage (Guardian, BBC, Sky, ITV and the Gloucestershire Echo) in the media on the sentencing of Simon Parkes to four months for committing an act of racially or religiously aggravated criminal damage. Parkes tied a severed pig’s head to the gates of the Masjidul Falah mosque...
The Huddersfield Examiner relays that a family moving into their new home in Kirklees were faced with racist graffiti daubed on their front and rear doors and walls. Nazi swastikas and the letters EDL were spray painted on. The family home was earlier vandalised with eggs thrown at the windows and...
The Daily Mail, Daily Express and Daily Telegraph all report on a case of discrimination and unfair dismissal brought by an British – Arab immigration officer against the Home Office after he was sacked from his post at Gatwick Airport over alleged claims of ‘links to Islamic terrorism’....
The Mail on Sunday this week published an article noting that the Premier League has taken the step of widening the variety of celebratory drink offered to footballers voted ‘Man of the Match’. With the growing number of Muslim footballers playing for Premier League clubs, the League has...
BBC News and the Guardian today both cover the US military report into an investigation over the Qur’an burning incident at Bagram airbase last February and the video footage of four US marines urinating on Afghan corpses. From the BBC: “Six US soldiers have been disciplined for the...
The Daily Mail and Sunday Telegraph report on the appeal launched by two men convicted of terrorism offences after lawyers argued that material used against them in court was gained through torture. The men, Rangzieb Ahmed and Salahuddin Amin, claim MI5 acted in complicity with the Pakistani...
Local Middlesbrough paper, The Evening Gazette, reports on the conviction of six men, all of whom are associated with the English Defence League, for religiously aggravated disorder. The men were apprehended after shouting inflammatory religious abuse while at Middlesbrough railway station last...
