** 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 Institute of Race Relations (IRR) has issued a list of racist attacks that have occurred during July and August, stating that racist attacks and far-Right graffiti have increased over the summer months. Takeaway workers, those using public transport and those of a “Muslim” appearance...
Police are currently investigating whether a suspected arson attack at an Islamic prayer room at Manchester Airport on 11th September was religiously or racially motivated. From the Manchester Evening News: “Two ceremonial garments inside the room were deliberately set ablaze between 10pm...
According to a new report by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, support for radical “Islamist” groups is low among European Muslims and some leading groups with overseas roots are now cooperating with local governments and encouraging Muslims to vote. The report, entitled “Muslim...
France’s Senate, on Tuesday, overwhelmingly approved a bill that would ban wearing the Islamic veil (niqab) in public. The proposal also applies to all visitors to France so any Muslim woman who wears the niqab and wants to come to France to do some shopping in Paris will be forced by the...
Are things always as bad as you imagine them to be? Is a mosque earmarked for a £2 million development which includes adding two storeys, a dome and minarets a haven for potential terrorists and a step toward accepting Shariah law? Today’s Guardian describes the reaction of Reverend Peter...
A group of Christian leaders have written to their local newspaper, the Northern Echo, to make clear their opposition to Pastor Terry Jones’ proposed Qur’an burning last week, which he later cancelled amidst widespread international anger. The letter reads: “WE write to deplore, in...
Phil Woolas, current MP for Oldham East and Saddleworth, stands accused of doctoring photographs, misrepresenting facts and fomenting racial and religious divisions in order to “make white folks angry” at his opponent, Lib Dem’s Elwyn Watkins, as part of a desperate bid to retain his seat...
Just weeks after the last US combat troops left Iraq and President Obama announced that it was “…time to turn the page,” the Observer yesterday reported that UK servicemen “suspected of being responsible for the murder and manslaughter of a number of Iraqi civilians” during the...
As if to prove that the Dove Outreach Center’s “International Burn a Koran Day” stunt would invite all the wrong sorts of reactions, the Metro newspaper reports that Anjem Choudary (formerly of Islam4UK) has called on Muslims to burn the American flag outside US embassies...
The US military commander in Afghanistan, General David Petraeus, has expressed grave concerns over the planned “International Burn a Koran Day” organized by Dove World Outreach Centre in Gainesville, Florida to coincide with the ninth anniversary of the Sept 11th attacks, saying it...
