** 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,...
Yesterday, 9 May 2018, parliamentarians voted on the fate of a bold amendment to the data protection bill which if introduced would have forced the Government to stand up to press barons and hold them accountable for their unethical practices. The amendment, tabled by a cross-party group of MPs...
Parliament is set to vote today, 9 May 2018, on the introduction of effective press regulation measures and the revival of Leveson Part Two as an attempt to investigate and curb the unethical practices of mainstream newspapers and hate rhetoric on social media platforms. The Government, opposed to...
Undercover footage, obtained by the Guardian, shows a Home Official claiming that the department’s “challenging environment” was necessary and that the official’s job was to ‘piss people off’. The man who was recording the Home Office official had previously served a prison...
A number of mosques in Kent and Essex were targeted yesterday, 2nd of May 2018, with threatening letters calling for violence against Muslims and anyone who supports Muslims, with explicit reference to ‘Punish a Muslim day’. Mosques targeted were located in Maidstone, Canterbury,...
The community of Small Heath, Birmingham, was left distressed after racist and Islamophobic graffiti was discovered targeting the local Muslim community. The graffiti was sprayed in Small Heath park off Waverly road and on a property located on Tennyson road, stating: “Islam = C**t”,...
The Liverpool Echo reports on how a Muslim woman was left unconscious after suffering a horrific ordeal in front of her young children. Ms Hamman Hamood was with her four young children in McDonald’s in Kensington, on the 27th of March, when Ms Kellie Cooke approached her and started...
United Nations (UN)’s human rights experts have raised concerns of structural racism being rooted in the “fabric of UK’s society” just days after the 25th anniversary of Stephen Lawrence’s murder. The experts have expressed concerns of the disproportionate number of deaths of people of...
Ahead of the local elections taking place on the 3rd of May our Croydon working group wanted to ensure their Muslim community were well informed of as to who to vote for. The team held a meeting last week in a local mosque to strategise and organise how they will be able to hold a meeting...
The High Court has ruled that the “cab rank” policy introduced by a Coroner, Ms Mary Hassell, which did not take into account religious needs of communities was “unlawful, irrational and discriminatory”. The ruling was handed down today, 27th of April 2018, in reference to the following...
A new report released by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims aims to highlight the numerous charitable initiatives being instigated by British Muslims and the significant contribution of the British Muslim population to the humanitarian sector. The report, ‘Faith as the Fourth...
