** 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 Guardian today runs a special report on the concluding of the inquest into the London bombings of July 7th and the merciless killing of 52 people on London’s transport network by four young British Muslim men. The report includes an article by Vikram Dodd on the government’s domestic...
The BBC reports that the five men arrested at the Sellafield nuclear site on Monday have all been released without charge. The men who were arrested under Section 41 of the Terrorism Act 2000 were said to be taking photographs at the site prompting police suspicion. The news of their arrest,...
The Lancashire Telegraph reports on the posting of offensive remarks about Islam and Muslims on Facebook by a BNP candidate standing for a seat in the council elections in Blackburn and Darwen. “Nancy Shaw-Farmer, who is bidding to become a councillor in Roe Lee in Blackburn, has been...
With the UK population going to the polls tomorrow to vote in the AV referendum (and in local and regional elections in England, Scotland and Wales), the Independent editorial today urges voters to “Just say Yes to voting reform”. From the paper: “Tomorrow the British public will have...
The BBC reports on the start of the trial of four Metropolitan Police officers charged with a sustained and violent attack on Babar Ahmad. From the BBC:“Babar Ahmad was arrested in a dawn raid on his home in Fountain Road, Tooting, south London, on 2 December 2003. “The officers attacked him...
The Prime Minister, David Cameron, made a statement to the House of Commons this afternoon on the news that Usama bin Laden was killed by US Special Forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan this weekend. The PM said: “The death of Usama bin Laden will have important consequences for the security of our...
UKIP candidate for Leicester South Abhijit Pandya continues to make Islam and Muslims the centre piece of his election strategy with a blog post asking “What would have the formidable Victorian society thought of the proliferation of Mosques in Britain?” He writes:“Gladstone, the greatest...
A news report on the BBC highlights charges brought against three people in connection with spray paint attacks on a mosque in Hartlepool, and two other locations, last November. From BBC News online: “Three people have been charged over race related vandalism, including a spray paint attack...
Front page news in the Daily Telegraph on Friday was the All Party Parliamentary Group on Homeland Security inaugural report, “Keeping Britain Safe: An Assessment of UK Homeland Security Strategy” under the headline “University campuses are “hotbeds” of Islamic extremism”. Among...
Melanie Phillips in yesterday’s Daily Mail exploits the latest tranche of files on Wikileaks, the Guantanamo Files, to rehash her theory on Londonistan and takes aim at what she argues is “the steady incursion of Islamic sharia law, whose principles are inimical to Western values and human...
