** 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 reports on new research by academics at Bristol University which shows that schools in Oldham are “largely polarised along racial lines.” “More than 80% of primary school pupils of Pakistani or Bangladeshi origin attended schools, in 2009, in which no more than 20% of the pupils...
Some interesting excerpts from the speech given by US President, Barack Obama, to members of both Houses of Parliament in Westminster Hall this afternoon can be read below: “Today, after a difficult decade that began with war and ended in recession, our nations have arrived at a pivotal...
The Lancashire Telegraph reports on charges brought against two people in relation to the desecration of a Qur’an and racist graffiti applied to the walls of Dawat Ul Islam Masjid in Chorley, Lancashire. From the paper: “A Quran was ’desecrated’ and racist graffiti daubed at a mosque, it...
Vikram Dodd in The Guardian today covers disturbing revelations on the use of ethnic profiling under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act (2000), which allow the police to stop and search individuals, and the exploitation of the power to harass and intimidate Muslims into spying on their community....
There were articles published in the Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail yesterday on the case of Dr Richard Scott, a GP at the Bethesda Medical Centre in Margate, who faces a disciplinary hearing for purportedly speaking about his Christian faith during a patient consultation. Dr Scott’s case...
The BBC reports on the return of EDL protestors to Shotton, in north Wales, this weekend months after they first marched on the town in protest against the proposed Shotton Islamic Centre. EDL members first targeted the town amid plans submitted by the Flintshire Muslim Cultural Society (FMCS)...
The Daily Star goes in search of a new Muslims Against Crusades story and finds it in Anjem Choudary’s latest brainwave, “Islamic “Guardian Angels”” to bring Sharia law to the UK.” The website and newspaper carry a picture of DS reporter Dominik Lemanski interviewing Choudary for...
There’s coverage in the papers today on President Obama’s speech at the US State Department yesterday on the US response to the Arab Spring. President Obama set out to “talk about this change – the forces that are driving it and how we can respond in a way that advances our values and...
The Guardian and Daily Express both cover the Hate Crime in Scotland 2010 – 11 report released by the Crown Office and the Procurator Fiscal Service. The report contains figures relating to hate crimes in Scotland in the equality strands of race, religion, disability, and sexual orientation...
Several newspapers today (Daily Mail, Daily Express and The Guardian) cover the release of “experimental” statistics by the Office for National Statistics on the ethnic breakdown of the 423 local authorities in England and Wales. From the Guardian: “The non-white British population of...
