** 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,...
In an article for his New Statesman blog this past Saturday, Dan Hodges informed us that the “Daily Star’s flirtation with extremist right-wing, if not right-wing, politics appears to be over.” His comments refer to the brief stint of articles in February which appeared to give the EDL...
The Ilford Recorder reported on Friday of an attack on worshippers and the imam of the Redbridge Islamic Centre: “The imam of a Redbridge mosque was injured yesterday after six people tried to smash their way through the front door moments before the final evening prayer. “Windows were...
One more reason to wonder where the Express Newspapers’ withdrawal from the PCC will lead with this article from Wednesday’s edition, “Muslim vandals daub hate signs on war memorial”? From the paper: “A war memorial has been sprayed with extremist Islamic graffiti less than a year...
Louise Bagshawe, Conservative MP for Corby, wrote in the Daily Telegraph of her grievance with the BBC over its reporting of the murder of the Fogel family, residents of an illegal settlement in the West Bank. She wrote of being “stunned at the BBC’s seeming lack of care [with] all the...
A man who was charged with religiously aggravated harassment and theft following his burning a copy of the Qur’an in Carlisle city centre appeared at Carlisle Magistrates’ Court yesterday. The ‘News & Star’ reported that his solicitor told the court “he was protesting against...
The Staffordshire Sentinel and BBC News report that two men are due to appear in court today, having been charged with arson and intent to endanger life after an arson attack on a newly-built mosque in Stoke-on-Trent last December. From the Staffordshire Sentinel: “Simon Beech, aged 23, and...
After extensive efforts from some journalists, MPs and even the co-founder Maajid Nawaz himself, to persuade the government to grant the Quilliam Foundation ‘transitional funds’ following the announcement that their government funding was to be cut, the Home Office has reportedly offered...
The Leicester Mercury reported that a man who smashed the window of a local takeaway during an English Defence League protest in Leicester in October has “admitted causing criminal damage worth £1500.” “Gareth Mooney (29) of Sandown Court, Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, broke the shop window...
In her Daily Express column today, Ann Widdecombe takes issue with Islamic finance and the provisions provided therein. She writes: “Because sharia law prohibits the payment of interest Muslims buy a house, then sell it on immediately to an off-shore financial company which leases it back. As...
In a written ministerial statement, the Foreign Secretary yesterday informed the House of Commons that the guidance on reporting torture and mistreatment has been “updated and reissued” to all FCO staff. He said: “I have made this guidance available to the public by publishing it on the...
