** 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 and Daily Telegraph today report on the video footage which shows four US marines in Afghanistan urinating on the bodies of dead Afghans. The incident has sparked condemnation from all parties involved in the conflict in Afghanistan, including NATO, with the US Secretary of State for...
The Middlesbrough Evening Gazette reports on the six month sentence passed on a teenager who repeatedly punched a Muslim taxi driver in the face before absconding without paying his fare. From the Gazette: “A teenager has been locked up for a “bizarre and outlandish” race hate attack on an...
The editor of the Daily Star, Dawn Neesom yesterday faced a ‘grilling’ for her ‘anti-Islam coverage’ whilst in a hearing at the Leveson Inquiry, Islamophobia Watch has reported. Neesom was questioned on the overall stance of the paper towards Islam and Muslims, and was also confronted with...
The BBC reports on the launching of an inquiry by the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Metropolitan Police Service into allegations of UK complicity in the rendition and torture of two Libyan men, Abdel Hakim Belhadj and Sami al-Saadi. In a joint statement the DPP and MPS also refer to their...
The Evening Standard front page yesterday lead with news of the Metropolitan Police Service’s decision to “dramatically reduce” the number of random stop and searches in a bid to improve relations with ethnic minorities and to address the problem of alienation. The news follows the...
We have now received a reply from the Home Office in relation to our letter of 1st November 2011 concerning the cancellation of a Civil Service careers evening event which was due to be hosted jointly by the Cabinet Office and FOSIS. We wrote to the Home Secretary, Theresa May, to raise the...
The BBC has won its case against the Ministry of Justice in its bid to film and broadcast an interview with Babar Ahmad. The High Court today ruled in favour of the right to film Ahmad on grounds of his case being of an ‘exceptional nature’. Ahmad has been detained without trial for 7 years...
You can still catch the Radio 4 debate on ‘Islam and the Veil’ here. BBC Radio 4’s Beyond Belief programme presenter Ernie Rea is joined by Fatima Barkatullah, writer and lecturer for the Islamic Education & Research Academy, Dr Shuruq Naguib, Lecturer in Islam at Lancaster...
The Independent on Sunday covered new disclosures in the Fox/Werritty scandal which have come to light following an FOI request submitted by Craig Murray, former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan. Murray has been assiduously investigating the inadequacies in the report produced by Sir Gus O’Donnell...
The ESRC/AHRC Religion and Society research programme is running a series of ‘Faith Debates’ from 8th February to 2nd May 2012 exploring the role of religion in public life and showcasing research outputs from some of the projects that have been funded under the programme.
