** 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,...
A local paper, the Reading Post, reports on the trial of five men accused of verbal abuse and physical assault on an Asian taxi driver, and smashing up his cab. The incident occurred in January 2011, with the five men now appearing in court on charges of racially aggravated assault and racially...
The Observer yesterday reported on comments by an adviser to the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry who stated that policemen who abuse stop and search powers to target Blacks and Asians should face prosecution for wasting police time and misusing public resources. From The Observer: “Officers who...
The website Political Scrapbook reports on anti-Muslim remarks allegedly made by Lib Dem by-election candidate Dave Stones. Mr Stones, who will be contesting a local councillor position in the Redcar and Cleveland Newcomen Ward election for the Liberal Democrats on 19th January has made a...
Letter to the BBC, Dec 2012 Letter to the Rt. Hon. William Hague Foreign Secretary, Nov 2012 Letter to Canon Dr Mark Hocknull, Nov 2012 Letter to the Rt. Hon. Hugo Swire MP, Nov 2012 Letter to OFCOM, Sept 2012 Letter to the Rt Hon. William Hague MP, Foreign Secretary, Aug 2012 Letter to the...
The BBC reports on the sentences passed on three men found guilty of an arson attack on a mosque in Haywards Heath, West Sussex, last February. From the BBC: “James Everley, 20, of Crawley, James Smith, 20, of Burgess Hill, and Joshua Morris, 20, of Haywards Heath, were all sentenced to three...
The anger expressed by sections of the Jewish community at the Jewish Chronicle’s destructive attitude towards Muslim-Jewish relations continues in the pages of the JC this week with a comment piece by Keith Kahn-Harris. Kahn-Harris was among the speakers at a recent event organized by members...
Professor Roy Greenslade blogs on Media Guardian on the Islam Channel’s proposed ‘Alternative Leveson Inquiry’. The Alternative Leveson Inquiry has been set up to investigate the causal relationship between media representations of Islam and Muslims and popular social attitudes towards...
There is an interesting comment piece by Jonathan Freedland in today’s Guardian, ‘In defence of Britain’s tabloid newspapers’. In the article, Freedland explores the potential value that tabloids have to contribute to a free press. From the Guardian: “He made an unlikely anti-racist...
The Daily Mail has once again attempted to perpetuate the myth of the Islamisation of Britain via-halal meat, publishing an article on the rejection of demands to serve halal meat in the restaurants and cafes of the Houses of Parliament. Titled, ‘We won’t eat halal meat, say MPs and...
Simon Jenkins in The Guardian today reflects on what he considers the easy bellicosity of NATO powers against the Muslim world, and the UK’s imperialist echoes in its relations with Muslim majority states. Jenkins writes: “That echo [of imperialism] is far from an irrelevance. It has...
