** 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 website Blottr reports that the former ‘company director’ of the English Defence League and administrator of the EDL Jewish Division Facebook page, Roberta Moore, has praised the Norwegian terrorist, Anders Behring Breivik on the Jewish Division’s official Facebook page. From Blottr:...
Following recent revelations of the US military college in Virginia teaching anti-Islamic material, the Guardian reported over the weekend of US based campaigners having expressed concerns that such teachings are far more widespread than people would be led to believe. Campaigners are also...
The Guardian last week reported that the conviction of nine men involved in a gang which groomed girls for sex has led to a surge in anti-Muslim abuse, and that the British Muslim community is bracing itself for more “Islamophobic attacks on individual Muslims and mosques across the UK”. From...
Richard Littlejohn in the Daily Mail today mimics a blog post by Rod Liddle in the Spectator in 2009, railing, in similar vein, about the ‘benefits of a multicultural Britain’. Littlejohn writes, “While we are all being urged to ‘celebrate diversity’, we shouldn’t try to kid ourselves...
The New Statesman cover story this week is the highly charged issue of halal meat. With the Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph and Independent all recently publishing on the issue, Mehdi Hasan in this week’s NS “questions how many opponents of halal know what producing it involves, and wonders whether...
The Foreign Office have replied to our letter to the Foreign Secretary on the issue of Iran, the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and the British Government’s stance in the negotiations on Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons programme. The FCO’s reply can be read here.
The Guardian, the BBC and the Daily Mail have today covered the news that an optional course taught at a US military college in Virginia contained teaching material which instructed officers that there is no such thing as ‘moderate Islam’, that Islam is the enemy of America, and that Hiroshima...
Islamophobia Watch alerts us of a local report regarding a nine-month prison sentence handed down to a woman who attacked an Asian family while drunk. The woman was found guilty of tearing at a Muslim woman’s headscarf before hitting her in the face. She also struck the woman’s niece while...
There has been widespread coverage on the sentencing of nine Asian men from Rochdale who have been found guilty of exploiting and grooming young girls for sex. From the Daily Telegraph: “Judge Gerald Clifton said the nine men from Rochdale, who preyed on up to 50 young white girls, had been...
Solihull News reports on the case of a man who allegedly grabbed a Muslim woman by her head and ripped a veil from her face in a local shopping centre. From Solihull News: “A Shirley man has been summoned to appear at Solihull Magistrates Court after he allegedly ripped a veil from a Muslim...
