** 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 Daily Mail yesterday reported on comments made by the Children’s Minister, Tim Loughton, to the Home Affairs select committee inquiry into ‘Localised child grooming’ headlining the article ‘Don’t let PC brigade bury ethnic links to sex gangs, warns children’s minister’. Loughton,...
The Birmingham Mail and BBC News both report that a man who pulled the niqab off a Muslim woman’s head in a West Midlands shopping centre has been handed a suspended prison sentence, and ordered to complete 250 hours of unpaid community service with a 21-day activity examining diversity and...
The Daily Mail today reports on the trial of a woman charged with racially aggravated assault who allegedly pushed a pregnant Muslim woman to the floor and hurled racist verbal abuse at her and her family, calling her a “suicide bomber” and “terrorist,” after an altercation at a supermarket...
A Bristol paper reports that 2,000 local people have signed a petition calling for a march planned by the English Defence League later this month to be banned by the Home Secretary, Theresa May. The action is similar to that taken last year when the Home Secretary acceded to a request by the...
Further to the Observer’s misrepresentation of the views of the outgoing archbishop of Canterbury in last week’s Sunday paper, the newspaper this week has published the following in its ‘For the Record’ section: “Our coverage last week of Faith in the Public Square, a forthcoming book by...
The Press Association and The Times (£) reported over the weekend on new research which finds that British people from ethnic minority backgrounds are more likely to identify with ‘Britishness’ than their white peers. The research finds that of all groups, Muslims are the most likely to...
The Dewsbury Reporter and the Yorkshire Evening Post have both reported that a protest by the English Defence League and counter-protest by Unite Against Fascism on Saturday passed off largely without incident, however five people were arrested for minor incidents. From the Yorkshire Evening Post:...
The Independent today reports that former PM Tony Blair could be called to testify in the cases brought by Abdel Hakim Belhadj and Sami al-Saadi against Jack Straw and Sir Mark Allen, on charges of complicity in their torture and rendition to Libya. From The Independent: “Tony Blair could be...
BBC News and the Guardian have covered a report published by the Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, David Anderson QC on ‘The Terrorism Acts 2011’. His report looks at the operation of the Terrorism Act 2000 and Part 1 of the Terrorism Act 2006 in 2011. In his report, he criticises...
The Bolton News, the Lancashire Evening Post and the Daily Mail have all reported on the sentencing of a group of English Defence League supporters charged with racially aggravated public disorder offences. The offences were carried out at a string of anti-Islam ‘flash demonstrations’ last...
