** 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 Kidderminster Shuttle reports on a racially aggravated assault on another elderly gentleman on his way to a mosque. From the local paper: “Police are appealing for witnesses after the incident, in Stourbridge Road on Friday and particularly want to trace two people who spoke to the...
New research released on Monday from the University of Warwick has demonstrated that young churchgoing Christians are more supportive of their Muslim peers than are young people of no religious faith. The survey involved 10,000 13-15 year-old students, 2000 each from England, Northern Island,...
Following the horrific attacks in Norway last Friday which killed at least 76, Democracy Now! have interviewed Ali Esbati, who was on Norway’s Utoeya Island at the time of the fatal shooting and the Director of the Norwegian Center Against Racism, Kari Helene Partapuoli. Esbati reflects on the...
Gary Streeter MP has sponsored an Early Day Motion welcoming the intervention of the Equality and Human Rights Commission in support of a “reasonable accommodation” of religion and belief in public life. The motion reads: “That this House welcomes the decision of the Equality and Human...
Andrew Gilligan in the Daily Telegraph today does his best to detract from and diminish the threat posed by far right extremism in the wake of the horrific attacks in Norway. He writes: “Clearly, the number killed by Anders Behring Breivik is greater than in any single Islamist terror attack...
In the wake of the Arab spring, the British government has published a strategy document entitled ‘Building Stability Overseas Strategy’ (BSOS). As the foreword states, the Arab Spring has “challenged long standing notions of stability. Challenges to oppression, if managed peacefully, can...
The Socialist Worker reports on another act of vandalism on a mosque, this time in Luton. “Racist thugs vandalised a Luton mosque during the early hours of Friday morning. They spray painted “EDL” and a swastika – the symbol of Nazi Germany – on the walls, and smashed windows. “Imam...
Letters in The Independent today make interesting reading for those distressed at the knee-jerk reaction of the paper’s religious affairs correspondent, Jerome Taylor, who in an article online on Friday entitled, ‘Jihadist networks have long singled out Norway,’ wrote: “As of yet there...
A survey by the Pew Research Center, published last Friday, reveals that almost ten years after the 9/11 attacks and five years since the last survey, there is a continuation of tensions between the West and majority-Muslim nations. Both hold general negative stereotypes of the other, although...
The Jewish Chronicle reports on a decision by the BBC to uphold a complaint against Newsnight presenter Jeremy Paxman for an edition of Newsnight broadcast on February 14th 2011. The complaint concerned Paxman’s failure to challenge claims made by Louise Ellman MP, accusing Hamas of using...
