** 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,...
Leaders of the main political parties in Scotland have urged Glasgow City Council to refuse an application by the Scottish Defence League (SDL) to hold a demonstration in the city on February 25th. In an open letter SNP deputy leader Nicola Sturgeon, and Scots Labour, Conservative and Lib Dem...
Local newspapers, Waltham Forest Guardian and Glasgow Local News, carry reports of local mosques which are to be honoured by HRH The Prince of Wales for their fundraising for the victims of the devastating floods in Pakistan in 2010.
Islamophobia Watch draws attention to the BNP’s re-publication of the Daily Mail article of last week on a ‘strict Muslim’ convicted of rape. The Daily Mail’s habit of publishing articles which are written so as to inflame and pander to anti-Muslim sentiments is nothing new. The paper...
The Surrey Comet reports on the case of a teenage boy who took an ornamental dagger to school for fear of racist abuse following the attack on Kingston Mosque in November 2010.
The ‘hactivist group’ Anonymous have revealed that the BNP have links to American extremist group the American Third Position, a far-right white supremacist party which was founded in 2010.
The London School of Economics’ Student’s Union newspaper, The Beaver, reports on several motions relating to combating religious hatred on campus which were debated at an Emergency General Meeting of the SU last week.
The chairman of the PCC, Lord Hunt, in his oral testimony to the Leveson Inquiry yesterday revealed plans for a new press regulatory watchdog which, he argues, will be more ‘robust’ and have powers to investigate allegations of misconduct, impose fines and award compensation to victims of media...
The BBC reports that former senior MI6 officer Sir Mark Allen in being sued by two Libyan rebel leaders for the alleged role of the British government in their own and their family’s illegal rendition and torture. From the BBC: “Two men who say they were rendered to Libya with the help of the...
Local paper, the Redditch Standard, reports on an arson attack started outside a mosque in Redditch last week, on Tuesday 24th January. From the Redditch Standard: “Arsonists are believed to have started a fire outside a mosque in Redditch on Tuesday evening (January 24).
PM David Cameron’s speech to the European Court of Human Rights was covered in the papers yesterday. The PM alluded to the recent ECHR ruling on Abu Qatada saying: “Protecting a country from terrorism is one of the most important tasks for any government.
