** 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 Ilford Recorder reports on the outcome of an appeal lodged by a 15 year old who was sentenced to two years detention for his role in a religiously aggravated attack on the Redbridge Islamic Centre last year in which an imam was injured. From the Recorder: “A 15-year-old boy locked up after a...
The Intelligence and Security Committee has today released its annual report (2010-2011) and again, iterates concerns over the lack of defined metrics against which to assess the success of the Prevent aspect of the Contest counter-terrorism strategy. The report, in its recommendations and...
The Guardian reported over the weekend that a police officer in the Metropolitan Police Service who racially abused a Pakistani man whilst drunk at a train station has been dismissed from the force. From the Guardian: “A Metropolitan police officer convicted of drunkenly abusing staff at a...
The Observer reported yesterday on the findings of a standards investigation into the handling of the arrest and detention by West Midlands police of Rizwaan Sabir, a doctoral student at Nottingham University. The investigation into police handling of the affair shows that evidence given by the...
There was coverage over the weekend on the demonstration by the English Defence League in Bristol on Saturday (Independent, Guardian, the Metro and local Bristol paper, The Post). The Post reports that twenty people were arrested during and after the protests on racially aggravated and public order...
The Hansard Society has launched the second part of their 9th Audit of Political Engagement which looks at ‘the media and politics’. The second part of the audit looks at key questions relating to the media’s influence on knowledge of and attitudes to politics, sense of political capacity and...
The Guardian today covers the publication of a report by the Joint Committee on Arms Export Controls on the UK’s export licenses. The committee, noting the revocation of 158 arms export licenses since the start of the Arab Spring, argues that there was “no significant changes in the...
Front page news in the Jewish Chronicle today is the private members’ motion on the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme on Palestine and Israel (EAPPI) which was debated at the meeting of the General Synod of the Church of England earlier in the week. The EAPPI is a programme run under the...
BBC Radio 4 recently broadcast a programme inquiring into why far right extremists have not made significant gains in the UK in contrast to the steady growth of their counterparts in Europe. In ‘No Extremists Please- We’re British!’ Trevor Phillips, the chair of the Equality and Human Rights...
Islamophobia Watch draws our attention to a local news report regarding the arrest of a far right supporter for an alleged racial public order offence during a protest organized by the South Wales National Front in Swansea. From the South Wales Evening Post: “A 21-year old man has been arrested...
