** 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,...
Nick Clegg’s speech to the Liberal Democrats’ autumn conference detailing the party’s commitment to “Civil liberties; internationalism; human rights; political reform; responsible capitalism and fighting climate change,” can be read here.
Shadow Foreign Secretary, Douglas Alexander, has written to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, William Hague, urging that the Government back the Palestinian vote on statehood recognition at the UN tomorrow. Setting out the Labour Party’s support for the bid,...
With the Palestinian bid for statehood recognition at the UN just days away, there is fierce deliberation in the US and the EU bloc on how to respond to the UN vote which will take place on Friday, 23rd September. The EU Observer reports that senior personalities in the EU have issued a...
A study carried out by the German Georg Eckert Institute for Textbook Research has found that the representation of Islam and Muslims in school textbooks used in five European countries (Britain, France, Austria, Spain and Germany), is distorted. The research analysed 27 volumes used in...
The Daily Express on Saturday covered the mixed reaction by union reps and local councillors to the Government’s approval of the first Muslim free school, as reported in the Blackburn Citizen on Friday. Tauheedul Islam Boys’ School in Blackburn has had its application for free school...
Two men have pleaded guilty to the charge of conspiring to commit an act of racially aggravated criminal damage. The Asian Image newspaper reports: “Two men have admitted daubing racist graffiti on a mosque and two Asian-run business premises. “Anthony Donald Smith, 24, and 32-year-old...
Bournville College in Birmingham has been the target of repeat acts of vandalism after attackers mistook the college’s new building for the dome of mosque. The college design boasts a new section which is gold-clad, leading to rumours that the building is a mosque. Norman Cave, the principal...
The Daily Telegraph has today reported on two developments in Europe which demonstrate how anti-Muslim discourse has found its way into national legislation in European countries. The first is the Dutch burqa ban which has been introduced today, making Holland the third country in Europe to...
A 16 year old has pleaded guilty to a vicious attack on a 71 year-old man which took place in July outside Ayrshire Central Mosque in Kilmarnock, Scotland. The elderly man was punched to the ground and had his head repeatedly kicked and stamped on for around 10 minutes, rendering him...
The JC this week reports on the passing of the changes to the Police Reform and Social Responsibility bill altering the UK’s position on universal jurisdiction. The changes defer the decision on issuing an arrest warrant for visiting persons wanted on suspicion of committing war crimes to...
