** 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 blog The Commentator recently carried an article in which the author, Shlomie Liberow, President of Goldsmiths University Jewish Society, accuses the BBC of anti-Israel bias. Liberow writes: “It appears the BBC has taken upon itself the unholy crusade of deeming parties in the...
The blog Political Scrapbook has posted an article on a report in the Daily Mail on Saturday, which appears to blame the predicted traffic chaos that will hit London during the Olympics, on Muslims. The DM article headlines, ‘Ramadan ‘will cause even more transport chaos during the Olympics as...
The Guardian Comment is Free carries an article today by assistant comment editor at the Guardian, Joseph Harker on the way that ‘racism takes root’ in society. Giving the example of the reporting on the conviction of a sex-grooming gang in May, where the men were of Pakistani and Afghan...
The BBC, Press Association and London 24 have reported on the arrests over the weekend of three men for racially aggravated public order offences at an English Defence League protest which took place on Saturday. The police received no warning that a demonstration would be taking place. From the...
The Foreign Affairs Committee has published a report looking at British foreign policy and the Arab Spring. The report looks at Britain’s response to the Arab Spring, relations with key states as well as looking at support for democratic reform in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region....
The Guardian Comment is Free carries an article today by the former chief executive of Index on Censorship and former editor of the New Statesman, John Kampfner. Kampfner looks at the way in which British legislation saw an increasing infringement on civil liberties under the former Prime Minister,...
Islamophobia Watch points us to a report in the Sunderland Echo on a protest planned by the BNP today in Sunderland against the sandwich shop, Subway’s sale of halal meat in its shops in the city. The BNP have staged similar protests in the past in other parts of the country. From the local...
Islamophobia Watch covers a post written by Ben White on Electronic Intifada which reveals the extent to which Dr. Patrick Sookhdeo, a notorious anti-Muslim bigot who peddles highly inflammatory and prejudicial stereotypes about Muslims and Islam, is involved in programmes supervised and run by the...
The BBC has published its annual report, comprising reports by both the BBC Trust and the BBC Executive. As well as publishing details on its programming, finances and overall strategy, of particular interest in the report is the BBC’s assessment of its editorial standards on impartiality and...
Islamophobia Watch alerts us to a report on STV relating the sentence passed by an Edinburgh court on a Scottish Defence League supporter who posted racist messages on Facebook. From STV: “A man who used his Facebook account to post racist messages has been given community service. “Raymond...
