** 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 Guardian today covers the horrific attack on Shaima Alawadi, a US immigrant of Iraqi descent who was brutally beaten at her home in California with her attacker leaving a note that read “go back to your country, you terrorist”. From The Guardian: “Alawadi, an immigrant, died...
The Lancashire Evening Post has reported on the conclusion of a trial of two men and a woman charged with racially aggravated assault and criminal damage after an attack on a Muslim taxi driver in Preston on December 28th last year. The three individuals were found guilty and will be sentenced at a...
There was a shocking article published in the Guardian this week relating an ex-FBI informant’s account of his experience spying on the Muslim community in California. Craig Monteilh pretended to be a convert to Islam and a ‘radical’ Muslim, infiltrating Californian mosques to gather...
The Sun and Daily Mail have reported on comments made by crossbencher Baroness Caroline Cox at a House of Lords conference on shari’ah law. Both the Daily Mail and the Sun published their articles online but have now removed them from their sites. The Siasat Daily published an article based on...
The Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph and Jewish Chronicle all report on a row that has erupted between Baroness Catherine Ashton, the EU High Representative on Foreign and Security Policy, and Israeli officials after an inaccurate transcript of comments she made at a conference on Palestinian youth was...
Typically odious stuff from Rod Liddle in the Spectator’s Coffee House blogs where he muses on the comments made by Ken Livingstone on Prophet Muhammad’s (saw) last sermon. Livingstone is reported to have referred to the last sermon as ‘an agenda for all humanity’. Liddle caricaturing Islam...
Melanie Phillips in the Daily Mail adds her perspective to the Toulouse murders and the misreporting of Baroness Catherine Ashton’s remarks at the UNRWA event in Brussels on Palestinian refugees. “Desperate to sanitise Muslim genocidal terrorism and prove that racism and Jew-hatred is confined...
The Yorkshire Post reports that police are appealing for information after a string of violent incidents took place following an EDL demonstration in Cleckheaton town centre, including a violent assault on an Asian man. From the local paper: “Police in West Yorkshire [are] appealing for...
Tooting MP Sadiq Khan has written an article for the April edition of Total Politics on what being British means to him. Khan writes: “Growing up in South London I was pretty comfortable in my own skin, developing a clear sense of who I was. With my friends and interests, I knew my limitations...
The Guardian has today reported that an Afghan, Serdar Mohammed, is demanding a high court judicial review into possible breaches of judicial rulings on the transfer of Afghan prisoners into Afghan custody by British forces. Mohammed claims he was tortured by Afghan prison guards following his...
