** 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,...
Before After An offending headline to a story on 24 Dash, a news portal that combines Press Association news items with housing and public sector news, has been amended following a complaint.
The Christmas edition of the New Statesman features an interview with the Archbishop of Canterbury. Asked about the Shari’a law debate that flared up earlier this year, the Archbishop replies, ‘I think what it did bring home to me was the degree to which we love to have people making our...
Show Racism the Red Card will be screening their new educational film tackling Islamophobia at the Scottish Parliament tomorrow (18 Dec) in the presence of Scotland’s First Minister and other party leaders. The film features interviews with many top footballers including Thierry Henry, Lilian...
Express Newspapers today (17 Dec) apologised in the High Court to Inayat Bunglawala, Advisor on Policy and Research at ENGAGE, over false allegations of extremism which appeared in an article concerning Prince Harry’s active service in Afghanistan. The newspaper, which had already published a...
Imraan Ladak, chairman of Kettering Town Football Club and winner of the Lloyds TSB Asian Jewel Award for Business & Commerce 2007, has returned the award to the bank in protest of its pressure on the Islamic Bank of Britain to close Interpal’s account.
David Toube, on the anti Muslim hate site Harry’s Place, comments on a Jewish Chronicle story on The Guardian’s refusal to print a letter by the press counsellor of the Israeli Embassy in response to a comment piece in the paper written by Azzam Tamimi, Director of the Institute of Islamic...
The Daily Star prints its usual nonsense with this story on a bid submitted by a Muslim charity to set up a primary school in Swindon. The Al Habib Islamic Education and Cultural Centre has applied to establish a primary school in the area with 50% of places at the school, which serves a...
Manchester’s Muslim, Jewish and Christian communities held a joint celebration marking their respective festivals which, fortuitously, all fall in December this year.
The BNP continues its campaign for the European elections in 2009 reporting that the government is to pledge £480 million in aid to Pakistan as the NHS is forced to cut back on its expenditure due to funding shortages.
English Heritage comments on the report published by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) on growing interest and attendance by black and minority ethnic communities at historic sites in Britain.
