** 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,...
Academics at Lancaster University have completed an ESRC financed research project on ‘The representation of Muslims in the British press 1998-2009‘. The researchers analysed over 200,000 media articles written on Islam and Muslim over the eleven year period. The research is the most...
The Ilford Recorder reports on an incident of racially aggravated verbal abuse directed at a burqa-wearing Muslim woman in east London. From the local paper: “India McConnell, of Netley Road, Newbury Park, stood in front of a woman wearing a burka before shouting a racist slur and telling her...
Babar Ahmad is a British citizen who has been detained without charge under Terrorism legislation for over 7 years and is facing extradition to the US. To the dismay of those campaigning for him to be put on trial in the UK, a debate on a e- petition calling for his trial to […]
On Friday the BBC reported the arrest of over 170 EDL supporters outside a pub on Parliament Street on Friday. The EDL had gathered to observe the Armistice Day ceremony though in previous years their presence has been in counter-protest to the group Muslims Against Crusades which was banned by...
The Guardian last Friday reported on the proceedings of an information tribunal case concerning disclosure of intelligence documents relating to British security services’ alleged involvement in the secret rendition of UK residents to prisons where they were abused and tortured. Andrew Tyrie...
After publishing an apology to Tafazal Mohammed for falsely labelling him a ‘jihadist,’ the Jewish Chronicle yesterday published an apology to the Pears Foundation and Forward Thinking. The two organisations were criticised in a JC front page article by Martin ‘The Great Koran Con...
There’s much coverage in the press today on the Home Secretary’s banning of Muslims Against Crusades: see the Daily Mail, Daily Express, Metro, The Guardian, The Independent, and The Mirror. Interesting that a newspaper that has indulged the provocations of MAC’s members and exaggerated...
A mosque in Stockport has been vandalised after leaflets were distributed allegedly containing inaccurate information about plans to expand the Mosque. From the Stockport Express: “Three cars were sprayed with racist graffiti on Green Pastures and stones and eggs were thrown at the Heaton...
The BBC reports that the Home Secretary, Theresa May, has used her powers to proscribe groups under the Terrorism Act (2000 and 2006) to ban Muslims Against Crusades. From the BBC News website: “Home Secretary Theresa May is banning Muslims Against Crusades, a group planning an...
The police are searching for the perpetrators of a violent attack on a young Muslim man on his way to Shepherds Bush mosque in London according to a news report in the Fulham and Hammersmith Chronicle. From the local paper: “At around 8.30pm on Sunday, September 25, the 25-year-old, who was...
