** 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,...
Islamophobia Watch has reported that two EDL members have been in court recently for racially aggravated harassment and for breaching bail conditions for violent assault. 18 year old Jacob Jake Hyland of Mayridge, Fareham was “given a restraining order by Portsmouth Crown Court (15/11/11)...
Baroness Flather is proving to be something of a favourite with the Daily Mail with a comment piece in yesterday’s paper criticising Lord Waheed Alli for instigating an inquiry in to the Lords’ expenses scandal. Lord Alli is said to have asked the solicitor, Imran Khan, to look into...
Richard Peppiatt, a journalist who quit the Daily Star in March over its skewed, inflammatory and often false reporting on Islam, appeared before the Leveson Inquiry on Media Ethics today. The BBC reports on coverage from the Inquiry: “Richard Peppiatt told the inquiry that reporters tried to...
A new report by IPPR on Islamic supplementary schools will state that although many British madrasas are good, a significant minority fall short on expected standards. The Guardian today reports on the report which will be launched tomorrow. The report reflects the findings of IPPR’s survey of...
The Mail on Sunday and Sunday Telegraph seem to have been busying themselves over the weekend publishing articles which lend themselves to portraying Muslims as intolerant and irrational. There’s the article in the Mail on Sunday on ‘baby Jihad’, on the news that a Muslim mother in...
BBC Asian Network has reported on rising community tensions in Manchester after it emerged that the North West Counter Terrorism Unit (CTU) infiltrated mosques in the city with officers posing as Muslims. The infiltration resulted in the conviction of three men on terrorism charges in...
Nicholas Mercer, the army’s former chief legal advisor in Iraq, has spoken of the “moral ambivalence” and “cultural resistance to human rights” at the Ministry of Defence which, he claims, is to blame for tragedies like the death of Iraqi detainee, Baha Mousa. In an interview with...
The Independent today reports that the far-right, anti-Muslim movement, the English Defence League, are to formally enter politics after agreeing an alliance with the British Freedom Party (BFP). The BFP was set up by former members of the BNP who were disaffected by the BNP’s politics and...
Negative reporting on the goings-on in madrassahs in the UK isn’t hard to come by. It’s a breath of fresh air then to see an article on the BBC Asian Network on the accelerating ‘modernisation’ of madrassahs and the efforts being undertaken to reform their method of teaching Islam to...
The BBC reports on the Backbench Business Committee’s disgraceful dismissal of the e-petition calling for Babar Ahmad’s extradition proceedings to be halted and his trial to be conducted in the UK. The Committee have decided to hold the debate on the issue in Westminster Hall rather than in...
