** 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 Shields Gazette reports that a drunk woman smashed a window at the Bait – ul -Mamur Jame Masjid in South Tyneside. From the local paper: “Police were called to Baring Street in South Shields after Sarah Riley was seen on CCTV running amok at 5.30am. “Officers told the 22-year-old to go...
It would seem Martin Bright’s efforts to drive a wedge between Muslim and Jewish communities has found disfavour among some readers of the Jewish Chronicle. In reviewing Bright’s article of last week Islamophobia Watch observed: “Bright is quite happy to poison relations between the...
The Independent Academic Research Institute and the pressure group Stopwatch are conducting a survey to gather young people’s opinions on new proposals to extend police powers. The changes include giving police forces the power to ask members of the public to remove face coverings, such as...
Nabil Ahmed, head of the Federation of Student Islamic Societies has warned the government against linking university attendance with terrorism. He made the comments in response to evidence given by Hannah Stuart of the Henry Jackson Society to the Home Affairs select committee’s conference at...
Former UKIP candidate, Abhijit Pandya has written in the Daily Mail Right Minds blog defending his position on banning the burqa. His comments come after Nigel Farage, the leader of UKIP suggested that he is considering reverting UKIP’s current policy on the burqa which advocates a total...
The Guardian reports that Abdel Hakim Belhadj, the head of the Tripoli Military Council and former leader of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group is suing Britain’s security services for their alleged complicity in his rendition by the CIA to Libya in 2004. Belhadj was unknowingly rendered with...
It would seem Paul Goodman has earned a well deserved rebuke for his libelous article on Sir Iqbal Sacranie posted on Conservative Home some weeks ago. Goodman’s article focused on the Government’s yet to be published integration strategy and the proposition seemingly included in the plans...
Two men who abused a Muslim on a coach trip from Dover, one of them urinating on the Muslim’s trainers, have been found guilty of religiously aggravated common assault and religiously aggravated harassment. From the local paper, Bracknell Forest Standard: “A Bracknell man who admitted...
The Institute of Race Relations reports that taxi drivers in Cardiff are threatening a mass strike in protest against the “routine racist abuse and violence” they face and the “indifference by the police and local council”. From IRR: “According to the chairman of the Cardiff Hackney...
Theresa May has announced that a national review of police stop and search powers is to be carried out by the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO). The Guardian reports the Home Secretary’s remarks on the review of police powers made during the Reading the Riots conference at the London...
