** 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,...
Chris Roycroft-Davis, an assistant editor of the Daily Express, looking yesterday at the paper’s recent coverage (here and here) of a Palestinian family living in social housing provided by Hammersmith and Fulham council, manages to combine the paper’s disdain for migrants with its...
The BBC covers the food bank initiative set up by the Discover Islam public information centre in Luton to help local families struggling to make ends meet. The Centre, in co-operation with Age Concern, has collected over 5000 items of foodstuffs to distribute bags in the local community and help...
The Metropolitan Police Service has today launched an awareness campaign to protect British Muslims against Hajj fraud as the dates for Hajj 2012 approach. “With just under three months to go until this year’s Hajj [24 – 29 October], The Metropolitan Police Service [MPS] is working...
The Daily Mail reports on the trial of a pregnant Polish woman and her partner who racially abused and assaulted two Muslim women during a Leeds – Sheffield train journey. The heavily drunk woman tore off the headscarf from one of Muslim victims and had to be restrained by guards and escorted off...
The Daily Telegraph today reports on the statement issued by the English Chess Federation on the allegations of Islamophobic abuse during the recent tournament in Austria brought by the parents of three young Muslim boys who took part in the competition. The ECF concludes that after a...
It would seem the Evening Standard has been forced to eat humble pie and apologise for its pathetic attempt to push Boris’s campaign and vilify Ken Livingstone by attacking the officials serving at the London Borough of Tower Hamlets during the London mayoral elections last May. Yesterday’s...
A curious debate on the BBC’s perceived leftie-liberal bias has been sparked by The Commentator on the back of its FOI request on the corporation’s consumption pattern of national dailies. It transpires the BBC purchases more copies of The Guardian newspaper than other titles, Daily Telegraph,...
The Independent today covers the story of three young Muslim chess players who, allegedly, were subjected to repeated abuse during a chess competition in Austria by the families of fellow competitors. From the Independent: “A gifted young English chess player was physically assaulted and his...
The local community website, Salford Online, covers The Co-operative Pharmacy’s extension of its meningococcal vaccination scheme for British Muslims preparing to undertake Hajj this year. From the local news site: “The Co-operative Pharmacy is extending its meningococcal vaccination scheme in...
Local paper, Leicester Mercury, reports on ongoing protests against plans by the Al-Salaam Trust to convert a disused Scouts Hut into an Islamic community centre. The protests have attracted the attentions of the BNP with leader, Nick Griffin, travelling to Leicester to hijack local protests. From...
