** 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 BBC yesterday reported that a man involved in a racially aggravated incident, involving a pig’s head thrown on the site of a proposed mosque in Nottingham, has been sentenced. “Nottingham Magistrates heard Payne failed to stop others placing the pig’s head and had also left racist...
The Commissioner for Human Rights at the Council of Europe, Thomas Hammarberg stated in a press release yesterday that bans on full-face veils may alienate women rather than liberate them, “It is more likely that such laws – so obviously targeting the adherents of one religious faith – would...
The Guardian today reports plans by the British Museum to stage a major exhibition about the Islamic Hajj Pilgrimage to Makkah. The exhibition, which will open in January 2012, “will bring together historic and contemporary objects – including manuscripts, textiles, archaeological items and...
Some coverage in the papers (Evening Standard, The Guardian) on the publication of the ‘Report on the Operation in 2010 of the Terrorism Act 2000 and of Part 1 of the Terrorism Act 2006’ by the government’s independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, David Anderson QC. Extracts from...
The Henry Jackson Society on Wednesday last week published the second edition of the report ‘Islamist Terrorism: The British Connections.’ The report includes a foreword by Lord Carlile, the former ‘independent reviewer’ of terrorism legislation and more recently, the man charged with...
The Metro and the Daily Mail last week both reported on a recent incident at Oldham Civic Centre where a mother was told she could not breastfeed her son in public because she was in a ‘multicultural building’. The headline of the article in the Metro reads ‘Breastfeeding mother...
The Cumnock Chronicle reports on a serious assault on a 71 year old Muslim man in Kilmarnock as he opened a mosque ahead of the Fajr prayer. From the paper: “The 71-year-old Asian man was discovered with serious facial injuries around 0130 hrs on Friday 15 July 2011 outside the Community...
The Guardian and The Independent this week both cover the Supreme Court’s ruling against the use secret evidence by MI5 and MI6 to conceal their alleged complicity in the torture and rendition of British citizens. The Guardian, who campaigned in favour of open justice and an end to secret...
The Home Secretary Theresa May addressed the Royal United Services Institute earlier this week, with the event being covered by the BBC, the Guardian and the Sun. The Guardian focussed on ‘cyber-jihad’ as the focus of Britain’s counter-terrorism strategy, whilst the BBC and the Sun...
A man who assaulted a Muslim woman ripping the burqa from her head while she walked in a shopping centre in Glenrothes last month, has been sentenced to 135 days in prison for the attack. From the Fife Courier: “[Duncan] Gandy, of Provosts Land, Leslie, appeared at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court on...
