** 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 Northampton Chronicle and Echo reports on the guilty verdict passed on an EDL member who threatened a Muslim taxi driver because of his religion. Charles Dickie, will be sentenced at a later date for committing a religiously aggravated offence. From the local paper: “A man who claims to be a...
The Guardian reports on the Foreign Office’s fight to conceal a key transcript from a telephone conversation between then British Prime Minister Tony Blair, and the former US president, George Bush, made in March 2003, just days before to the US led invasion of Iraq. The Information Commissioner,...
Islamophobia Watch covers a report in the Dewsbury Reporter about four men who have been jailed for their attack on two Asian teenagers. From the Dewsbury Reporter: “Four men have been locked up after a teenager was slashed in the face in Thornhill Lees.
Joseph Harker in the Guardian Comment is Free writes about the jailing of Liam Stacey yesterday for tweeting racist remarks about footballer Fabrice Muamba. Harker, reflecting on the sentence passed on Stacey and the acquittal of the BNP’s Nick Griffin and Mark Collett on charges of incitement to...
BBC Newsnight last night broadcast a special report on the rising threat of a violent, militant and racist far-right movement in Germany. The movement has increasingly been the focus of media attention after it emerged that a neo-Nazi cell was responsible for a string of murders in the German...
The Church of England newspaper last week featured a review of the British Museum’s exhibition on ‘Hajj: Journey to the Heart of Islam’. Reviewer Brian Cooper wrote: “Latest of its major exhibitions on spiritual themes, it showcases pilgrimage artefacts, records and souvenirs down the...
Both the Guardian and the Daily Mail have covered the planned anti-Islam rally organised by the English Defence League to take place in the Danish city of Aarhus on 31st March. The EDL hope to use the rally to mark the formation of a ‘European Defence League’. It will take place just weeks...
The Guardian today covers the report of the joint select committee on privacy and injunctions on the balance to be struck between freedom of expression and the right to privacy. From The Guardian: “A cross-party committee of MPs and peers has urged the government to consider introducing...
The Guardian covers the report by the Government’s independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, David Anderson QC, into the use of control orders and their replacement, T-Pims (Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures) in 2011. From The Guardian: “The annual report sets out the full...
The Mail on Sunday yesterday reported on the Government’s proposed changes to food labeling legislation “to ensure that meat slaughtered in accordance with strict Islamic law cannot be sold to unwitting members of the public.” The Mail on Sunday reported that: “The Government is drawing up...
