** 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,...
As election campaigns draw to a close, with the electorate going to the polls tomorrow, news reports draw attention to two UKIP candidates whose views on Muslims, ranging from support for Anders Breivik’s ‘thesis on Islam’ to calling the Qur’an ‘a fascist book’, have been exposed. The...
Islamophobia Watch reports that a BNP candidate standing in the Coventry City Council local election has posted some extremely racist and Islamophobic comments on his Facebook page. His comments include the following (NB some comments have been censored because of the language used):...
The Daily Jang’s English language newspaper, The News, reports on the mayoral hustings held with Muslim Londoners on Friday 27th April with incumbent mayor, Boris Johnson, and his Labour challenger Ken Livingstone. The News highlights aspects of the discussion that took place, noting the...
The BBC News website today carries a feature item asking ‘Why do so few Muslims vote?’ The BBC article draws on data from a poll carried out by Ipsos MORI after the May 2010 general elections, in which 45 Muslims were represented in a total sample size of 3,586. From the BBC: “At the 2010...
Guardian journalist Decca Aitkenhead’s interview with George Galloway MP is the G2 cover story today. Galloway tells her that “Winning Bradford West, with the landslide that we did, was the best day of my life”.
The Sunday Telegraph published an article yesterday based on the findings of a poll commissioned by Lord Ashcroft on ‘Ethnic Minority Voters and the Conservative Party’. The report, Degrees of Separation finds that there is a significant lack in the ability of BME voters to relate to the...
The news agency, Agence France Presse, reports that the Co-op Group, the UK’s fifth largest supermarket retailer, is to extend its boycott of settlement produce to cover suppliers who source their goods from the illegal settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. From the AFP report:...
Europol last week published its EU Terrorism Situation and Trends report 2012. The TE-SAT provides “facts and figures regarding terrorism in the EU, while also seeking to identify trends in the development of this phenomenon”. The 2012 report identifies a “highly diverse terrorism...
The Nottingham branch of the Labour Party has invited controversy by publishing a leaflet claiming the BNP and EDL could capitalise on low voter turnout in the election for a directly elected Mayor on Thursday. From the local paper: “About 3,000 of the leaflets – which claim the British...
The Surrey Comet covers news on the jailing of three men for their role in an attack on Kingston mosque in November 2010. From the local paper: “Three men who joined a hooded and masked gang to attack Kingston Mosque with sticks and bottles have been jailed today.
