** 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,...
Now this is an amusing story. The Daily Express, which regularly features news items and commentary on Muslims enjoying so called preferential treatment, is in a tizz over the Equalities Bill which it claims will provide ‘new legal rights to Muslims and other minority religious groups’.
Show Racism the Red Card (SRTRC) held a screening of their documentaries on racism and Islamophobia in football at the Foreign Office in London yesterday (10 Dec). The SRTRC campaign was set up 13 years ago with the aim of eradicating racism in football by using the beautiful game, and its...
Dr Ghayasuddin Siddiqui writes a comment in The Times in relation to a story concerning a study on child abuse in madrassahs in the UK.
The Daily Star goes in search of comments by Anjem Choudary to splash across its front page. It reproduces a post from the Islam4UK website under the headline ‘Ban Evil Xmas’.
Edmonton Islamic Centre with Haringey Council hosted a ‘Road Family Safety Day’ featuring a presentation providing vital facts, figures and advice on road safety issues, along with a range of entertainment activities for a family fun day out.
The BNP reports on a petition organised by South Birmingham BNP against the building of a new mosque in the Billesley ward. ‘Residents formed a long queue to sign the petition opposing the conversion of the now closed GP surgery into a mosque’, reports BNP news.
Another ex-HT member joins the growing industry of these former armchair revolutionaries that have left off their armchairs to beat back the beast they spawned. Rashad Ali writes in the Guardian’s Comment is Free section on the report by Dr June Edmunds on campus radicalisation. ‘I can...
Germany’s largest mosque, the newly opened Merkez mosque in Duisburg An article on Muslims and city politics can be found in this week’s issue of The Economist magazine. The article, ‘When town halls turn to Mecca’, takes a closer look at the ways in which Muslims are transforming...
Wajahat Ali contributes a comment to the Guardian Comment is Free section criticizing the perverse justice that led to the conviction of five members of the Holy Land Foundation, a charity active in providing humanitarian support to Palestinians. Ali quotes Linda Moreno, a defence lawyer for one of...
Middlesbrough striker Ahmed Hossam, better known as Mido, complained at the lack of robust action by the FA following an earlier incident of Islamophobic taunting at a football match in Newcastle and claims that complacency has only emboldened the racists.
