** 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,...
Islamophobia Watch alerts us to a column in yesterday’s Asian Image by commentator and activist, Majed Iqbal, on some of the insidious comments made by the English Defence League leader, Stephen Lennon, at the demonstration held in Rochdale last weekend. From Asian Image: “This weekend saw the...
The Llanelli Star reports the good news that a mosque in Llanelli, south Wales, where Muslims “have suffered abuse for 14 years,” has secured funding for the installation of CCTV. The decision to install CCTV came after attacks on the mosque last September and this April, when the...
BBC News reports that a man from Birmingham has pleaded guilty to charges of racially aggravated assault after he pulled a niqab off a Muslim woman’s face in a West Midlands shopping centre in March. From BBC News: “A 26-year-old man has admitted pulling a niqab veil off a Muslim woman at a...
Islamophobia Watch yesterday covered the progress on concerns expressed by the National Association of Muslim Police that Muslim police officers were being targeted by the English Defence League and that the reaction of Home Office officials and the Met Police to these concerns was inadequate. From...
The Guardian yesterday covered research carried out by the Equality and Human Rights Commission on stop and search powers under Section 60 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act. The research finds that the powers are being used disproportionately against people of ethnic minority backgrounds...
Reuters reports on the ‘first worldwide counter-jihad initiative’ to be launched in Sweden on August 4th with the Stop Islamization movements in Europe and America, and the English Defence League. From the Reuters news report: “The first worldwide counter-jihad initiative will begin...
A column written in USA Today by Tom Kreattenmaker draws attention to new research carried out by a terrorism prosecutions expert in Portland, Oregon on ‘Race, Religion and the Perception of Terrorism’. Tung Yin of the Lewis and Clark Law School has written a paper analysing four case studies...
Peter Oborne in an article in yesterday’s Sunday Telegraph explored some of the issues he probes in the Channel 4 Dispatches documentary to be aired tonight on ‘Murdoch, Cameron and the £8 Billion Deal’. Oborne’s article addresses the dubious relations between David Cameron, and members of...
Islamophobia Watch alerts us to the decision of Bournemouth council which has ordered a Conservative councillor who made comments on Twitter in May, stating that only the English Defence League ‘stick up for the English’, to make a full public apology at the next council meeting for her...
The Manchester Evening News and BBC News Manchester reported over the weekend on the arrest of eleven people on public order offences during an EDL protest in Rochdale which took place on Saturday. From the Manchester Evening News: “Eleven men were arrested by police today during a rally by the...
