** 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,...
The Pew Research Center has released a report on surveys conducted exploring the unity and diversity of the world’s Muslims looking at areas of doctrine, religious practice, religious commitment, and the boundaries of religious identity and religious practice. On the report’s aims and...
The Sunderland Echo reports on the policing of a demonstration organized by the National Front against a mosque that was recently given planning approval. From the local paper: “Officers were stationed outside the Chester Road mosque for the remainder of the weekend and in the city centre where...
Stefan Schreiner, Professor of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies at Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen, Germany, contributes an article to Qantara unearthing the Islamic influence on Europe, and the fiction peddled by far right social movements on the ‘Judeo-Christian’ roots of...
Saturday’s Daily Express included an uplifting reflection on Olympic memories by Tory peer Lord Michael Dobbs, in his Inside Politics page: “One of my most powerful memories of the Olympics had nothing to do with sport. I spotted one volunteer who was young, Muslim, her face creased with...
The Daily Mail reports on the conviction of ex-soldier, Simon Parkes, for racially aggravated criminal damage after he stuck a severed pig’s head on the doors of a mosque in Cheltenham and daubed its walls with racist graffiti. The incident occurred two years ago and Parkes was eventually...
Islamophobia Watch draws our attention to a report of a taxi driver in Sheffield’s vehicle being deliberately set on fire whilst it was parked outside his local mosque. The driver, Mohammed Joydi Miah had gone inside the mosque for morning prayers. From the Sheffield Star: “A Sheffield cabbie...
Islamophobia Watch alerts us to reports of an attack on a mosque in Horley, Surrey. The attack took place during the Ramadhan night time prayers whilst worshippers were inside. A report states that the attack was not caught on CCTV, however the mosque will now have four CCTV cameras installed to...
Islamophobia Watch alerts us to a report that a Muslim employee at London retailer has won a claim of unfair dismissal but lost her claim for direct religious discrimination after she was forced to resign from her job because the store wanted to maintain its ‘trendy’ image. From Personnel...
There has been coverage on BBC News, in the Daily Express, the Daily Mail and the Daily Telegraph as well as in the local Birmingham Mail of the opening of a children’s play centre in the area of Sparkhill, Birmingham, which does not permit entry to men or to boys over nine. The policy is...
The Guardian today carries a comment piece by Matthew Goodwin, an expert on the far right based at Nottingham University and author of several reports on the far right. In the article, Goodwin argues that the far right has adapted to the digital age “at a phenomenal speed”. He contends that...
