** 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 BBC, the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, the Daily Mail, and the Daily Express all report on the death of an imam in Belgium following an arson attack on a mosque near the Belgian capital, Brussels. One person has been arrested and no other people are being sought in connection with the attack....
The BBC has reported that Foreign Secretary William Hague is facing legal action over the alleged use of UK intelligence to assist US drone strikes in Pakistan by the British son of a man who was killed in such a strike. From the BBC: “Human rights lawyers are to sue Foreign Secretary William...
Robert Fisk in his column in Saturday’s Independent dwells on the incitement to violence he has lived with as Middle East correspondent for the paper. The latest such threat came from an Australian pro-Israeli activist who in an email to the Independent wrote: “Robert Fisk is the most...
The Press Complaints Commission, the voluntary press self-regulatory body, announced on Friday that it is to close after 21 years and a transitional body set up to carry on its work until a permanent replacement body is established upon the recommendations of the Leveson Inquiry. From the Guardian:...
The report by Matthew Goodwin and Professor Jocelyn Evans, ‘From voting to violence? Far right extremism in Britain,’ is available to read here. The report was launched at an event hosted by Chatham House yesterday. The report points to attitudes among the memberships of the BNP and UK...
Sajjad Karim MEP for North West England has written an article for the Huffington Post in which he highlights the need for Britain to act against the rise of far right political parties, like the BNP, by addressing their potent racism and by reaching out to the communities who have been alienated...
The Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy, appointed by the two Houses to scrutinise and consider the Government’s National Security Strategy (NSS), has today published its first review on the NSS. The report questions the Government’s policy on maintaining the UK’s influence in...
The Kingston Guardian covers the trial of nine men accused of attacking a mosque in Kingston in November 2010. From the local paper: “A rowdy, threatening mob that attacked Kingston Mosque with baseball bats and left worshippers inside in fear were caught on CCTV, a court has heard.
Channel 4 on Monday broadcast ‘Keith Allen Meets Nick Griffin’, a documentary in which Keith Allen (the actor/comedian/musician, perhaps better known as the father of the singer Lily Allen) interviewed the leader of the BNP, Nick Griffin, aiming to “penetrate the headlines and discover what...
Islamophobia Watch draws attention to a report in the Northampton Chronicle and Echo on the court appearance of an EDL member charged with making religiously-aggravated threats to a Muslim taxi driver. The man will stand trial later this month, but was refused bail by the judge on grounds of a...
