** 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,...
More grotesque generalizations and anti-Muslim prejudice from Leo McKinstry in his Daily Express column on Islam, the burqa and the French ban which came into effect today. McKinstry writes: “Our British political elite constantly boasts of its tolerance and enthusiasm for cultural diversity....
The Observer reported yesterday that Sion Owens, a BNP candidate in the forthcoming May elections for the Welsh Assembly, has been arrested by police after video footage of him dousing a Qur’an in kerosene and setting fire to it was passed on to South Wales police by the newspaper. From...
A new report, commissioned by the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) and undertaken by the Universities’ Police Science Institute at Cardiff University (UPSI), assessing the effects of policing in delivery of the Government’s Prevent strategy on Muslim communities in Britain is...
The public inquiry into the proposed mosque in Camberley, Surrey has heard that the 100 foot minarets at the centre of the dispute pose “little risk” to the security of the military training academy, RMA Sandhurst. Controversy has surrounded the application by the Bengali Welfare Association...
Six men have appeared at Kingston Magistrates Court on charges pertaining to the attack on Kingston mosque in November last year. Two of the six have entered not guilty pleas on charges of affray and one count of religiously aggravated criminal damage. Kingston mosque was attacked during a...
New research by academics at Oxford University, Dr Michael Biggs and graduate student Steve Knauss, reveals that BNP support is greater in towns and cities where the level of ethnic diversity is low and communities segregated. The research uses the BNP database leaked to WikiLeaks that contained...
STV reports that Neil MacGregor (pictured), the “proud racist” who threatened to blow up Glasgow Central mosque and “behead a Muslim a day” until all mosques in Scotland were closed down, has been jailed for 12 months. MacGregor was initially placed on probation for three years for the...
More in the press today on Judge Richard Goldstone’s op-ed in the Washington Post retracting aspects of the UN report he co-authored into war crimes committed during Israel’s brutal 28 day siege on Gaza in Dec 2008 – Jan 2009. Goldstone’s admission that the report would look rather...
An article by Andy Newman appearing on Socialist Unity concerning Terry Fitzpatrick and the Zionist blog site Harry’s Place sheds considerable light on the sort of company they like to keep at their place. HP is notorious for its witch-hunt tactics against “Islamists” and anyone espousing...
The BBC and Daily Mail report that the Planning Inspectorate is to hold a public inquiry into the Camberley mosque after the Bengali Welfare Association appealed the decision of Surrey council to refuse their planning application (image left). The Inspectorate will hold a six day public inquiry...
