** 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 covers the news report featured on BBC London yesterday evening regarding the Charity Commission’s launch of an investigation into Leyton Mosque over allegations of its ‘terror links’. The report also features in the Independent today. From BBC News: “An east London...
The Huddersfield Examiner covers the case of an ex-British soldier who has been fined for racially assaulting an Asian female police officer and telling her to “Go back to your own country.” From the local paper: “A Bradley man has admitted racially assaulting an Asian police officer....
The Daily Mail and Independent both report on the Coalition’s plans to introduce legislation criminalizing forced marriages. From the Independent: “The Prime Minister will announce that forced marriage will be made a criminal offence following reports that up to 8,000 Britons are made to marry...
Local news site, This is Plymouth, covers the trial of two members of the English Defence League who are charged with resisting police officers during an EDL demo in the town last August. The police officers had initially been called to the scene to deal with a racially aggravated attack on a...
Friends of Al Aqsa have received an ‘unreserved apology‘ from Ian Austin, MP for Dudley North, for suggesting in an article written for Labour Uncut, that FOA were Holocaust deniers. FOA, who had to pursue the case through the courts after requests to have the false allegations...
Islamophobia Watch has covered a report from the Newham Recorder on the conclusion of a dispute over the possible closure of an Islamic school in East London. The paper reports that the enforcement notice issued by Newham Council against Alif Academy over safety concerns has been quashed, and that...
Islamophobia Watch alerts us to a story in the Camden New Journal on a dispute over pay deductions for Muslims taking prayer breaks. The paper reports that Camden Council has backed-down on plans to deduct five minutes pay from Muslim employees every time they take a break for prayer, after Camden...
The Daily Telegraph yesterday carried an article on a Ministry of Justice report on Whitemoor Prison, written by researchers at the Cambridge Institute of Criminology. The article was headlined ‘Prisoners under pressure to convert to Muslim ‘gang’’. The report on which the article...
There has been widespread coverage in the Guardian, the Independent, the Daily Mail and on BBC News, on the Government’s U-turn on proposals to extend the mandate of secret trials, known as ‘closed material procedures’. The proposals are detailed in a Justice and Security bill,...
Sky News reports on the jailing of a woman who subjected tube passengers to a hate-filled rant on a Central Line tube last January. The woman, who racially abused fellow passengers has been jailed for 21 weeks for racially aggravated assault. From Sky News: “A woman whose racist abuse of...
