** 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,...
ENGAGE have written to the Press Complaints Commission concerning the story printed in the Daily Star, ‘Terror funded by cricket fixes‘ on the cricket match-fixing scandal and the paper’s allegation that these were ‘directly funding Al-Qaida terrorism’. Read the...
Police have arrested six men who could face charges of stirring racial hatred after a video of them burning copies of the Quran on 11th September was posted on YouTube. The Mail Online reports, “At one point, a laughing man kicks what appears to be a Koran while his friends shout: ‘This is...
The Independent reports today that the powers for police to hold terror suspects for up to 28 days without charge is to be scrapped and replaced with a shorter period of detention, expected to be 14 days. From The Independent, “The detention period – the longest in the western world –...
A United Nations panel of human rights experts, appointed by the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), has accused Israel of war crimes through unlawful killing, unnecessary brutality and torture in its “clearly unlawful” assault on board the MV Mavi Marmara in May. The MV Mavi Marmara was part...
Seven years after they allegedly assaulted him while arresting him, four police officers will be charged with assaulting Babar Ahmad. The four, who were all members of the Metropolitan Police’s territorial support group (TSG) at the time, are accused of assault causing actual bodily harm.
We thought you might enjoy Mark Steel’s take on the Daily Express’ “Muslim Plot to Kill Pope” that never was: “You might think that a plot to blow up the Pope would be news for a while. Popes don’t get blown up all that often, and this one’s enough of a celebrity that if...
Six men, accused by the Daily Express on Saturday of being “Islamic terrorists disguised as street cleaners” engaged in a plot to blow up the Pope, were reported the next day to have been released without charge. Originally, the Daily Express’ front page reported the matter in dramatic...
The Independent reported yesterday of hundreds of British Muslims facing harassment and intimidation by security forces at airports and seaports when leaving for and returning from holidays abroad. From The Independent, “New figures seen by this newspaper show that the number of innocent...
In yet another attack, gravestones were smashed and uprooted in a predominantly Muslim graveyard in Leeds in what police are treating as a racist hate crime. The Independent reports, “It is the second time this year that vandals have desecrated Muslim graves at the multi-faith Harehills...
The outrage manufactured over the weekend by the Mail on Sunday to the serving of halal meat continues today in The Sun, The Express and the Mail Online with such headlines as, “Outrage over secret halal”; “Millions being served secretly with halal meat” and “Halal Britain.” ...
