** 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,...
Jonathan Wynne-Jones, the Sunday Telegraph’s Religious Affairs and Media Correspondent, wrote yesterday of the publication of plans by the Church of England to merge three diocese in the Yorkshire area into one. He wrote: “It is also difficult not to see the merger – or axing...
In a comment piece for the Guardian’s Comment is Free section, Jacob Rowbottom questions whether “a law carrying a criminal sanction is the best way to safeguard the standards of political debate.” Rowbottom asks whether the law needs to regulate electoral speech at all and argues, “We...
Following yesterday’s news of threats against a mosque in Wrexham and the abuse suffered by worshippers there, there are reports today of further incidents against Muslims. The Scunthorpe Telegraph today reported today of five arrests being made after a group of people “shouted abuse” and...
Following on from the blog article by Andrew Gilligan on ENGAGE’s appointment as secretariat to the new APPG on Islamophobia, Paul Goodman, former Conservative MP for High Wycombe, has contributed his own thoughts on the matter in an article for Conservative Home.
The Wrexham Leader today reports of a man being issued with 200 hours unpaid work and attending an offending behaviour programme for threatening two British Muslims outside a mosque in Wrexham and threatening to burn down the mosque. From the Leader: “David Jared Evans, 36, sent texts to...
A man was arrested yesterday on suspicion of involvement in an attack on a mosque in Kingston. He is the fourth person to be arrested following the attack last month. From the Kingston Guardian today: “The man was arrested yesterday on suspicion of involvement in the disorder and damage at the...
1. Assaults or attacks on persons of Muslim Background Veiled woman refused bus ride- BBC, 23rd July 2010 Muslim reverts face physical and verbal Islamophobic abuse, The Times, 29th May 2010 2. Attacks on Muslim Property or institutions Kingston Mosque attacked, including urination in foyer...
BBC Asian Network yesterday broadcast a documentary presented by Catrin Nye titled “Who’s Afraid of the EDL?” The areas covered in the documentary included who the EDL are and what they say they stand for; the attempts of the EDL to forge links with other anti-Muslim and anti-Islamic...
The Daily Star, not one to do away with tradition, singles out for news the expression of interest by three Muslim faith schools to set up “free schools” in Blackburn. An article in the DS reports: “Teachers have attacked plans to build five new state-funded Muslim schools, warning it...
Tonight at 8:30pm, BBC One Wales will air a programme titled “Unmasked: Welsh Defence League” as part of an undercover investigation in to the group that is aligned to the extremist English Defence League. From BBC News: “An undercover investigation by BBC Wales into a group campaigning...
