** 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 Barking and Dagenham Post reports on the 14-month jail sentence passed on a 29 year old convicted of affray and common assault after he threw large stones onto a busy road and assaulted two men at an English Defence League demonstration against a mosque in Dagenham last June. From the paper:
The London mayoral elections in May this year is proving rich-pickings for the anti-Ken Livingstone brigade as evidenced by recent articles, see for example Andrew Gilligan on his Daily Telegraph blog. Islamophobia Watch has a great piece dissecting the ES hatchet jobs of the previous week in which...
The Independent today reports on a ‘European Counter-Jihad Meeting’ due to take place next month involving members of far right movements from across Europe which the paper says could result in the creation of the “European Defence League – and the beginning of a dangerous new phase in...
Local news reports and the BBC (see also Yahoo News) relate attacks which have taken place on Asian businesses in Rochdale in racially aggravated violence prompted by proceedings in a sex-grooming trial involving local men. Superintendent Chris Hankinson, speaking to Rochdale Online about the...
There has been extensive coverage in the media of the Associated Press report on New York Police Department’s surveillance of American Muslim students at 15 university campuses in the north eastern states of New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Connecticut. The surveillance is said to have...
There is an article in today’s Daily Telegraph titled ‘Academic who backed suicide bombings to speak on campus’. The article refers to the invitation of British-based Azzam Tamimi to speak at an event hosted by Queen Mary University’s Palestine Solidarity Society next Tuesday, called ‘One...
BBC3 this week broadcast a programme called ‘My Hometown Fanatics: Stacey Dooley Investigates’. During the one hour documentary, Stacey investigates minority extremism in her hometown of Luton from the likes of the EDL and Muslims Against Crusades. She interviews Stephen Lennon, the founder...
There is an interesting editorial published in The Independent reflecting on the Qur’an disposal incident in Afghanistan and the furore it has caused. From The Independent:
The Government’s long-awaited Integration Strategy was finally published on Tuesday. Communities and Local Government Secretary, Ed Pickles, announced the launch of the policy paper guiding the Coalition’s approach to integration saying: “We are rightly proud of our strong history of...
NATO forces have apologised after it emerged that US forces in Afghanistan disposed and possibly burned copies of the Qur’an. The incident has sparked protests in Afghanistan outside the Bagram airbase where the incident happened. From The Guardian:
