** 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,...
A UKIP councillor, Mr Philip Winter, has attracted significant criticism after claiming that violent youth crime in London is primarily due to the mentally-challenged BME community. Mr Winter made the claims in an email to Bristol Live. He stated: “I believe the violent youth crimes in London and...
A recent article by libcom has reported on Generation Identity (GI)’s intention to hold a conference in London this weekend, 14th and 15th of April 2018. GI has been described as a trans-European pseudo-academic far-right white nationalist group that recruits young people and holds camps to...
A recent article in the Middle East Monitor reports on how 30 students from the University of Westminster group ‘Students Not Suspects’ marched on the 6th of April, in protest of the manner in which PREVENT is being forced upon educational settings. The PREVENT duty, made compulsory by the...
An article in the Stoke Sentinel reports on how a group of young Muslim students were made victim to verbal abuse – with one being head-butted – on Thursday the 5th of April. The group of five female students were waiting at a bus stop at Newcastle Bus Station at around 7:20 pm when a […]
Archbishop of Canterbury, Mr Justin Welby, honoured Imam Mohammed Mahmoud for his “courageous and selfless intervention” when the Imam prevented violence against Mr Darren Osborne – also known as the ‘Finsbury Park terrorist’. Mr Osborne used a van to deliberately run over worshippers at...
Hacked Off, a group campaigning for “a free and accountable press”, reports that the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) is being taken to court for the first time, due to IPSO’s inaction and ineffectiveness. Mr Jonathan Coulter, one of 30 people, complained unsuccessfully to IPSO...
The pro-Brexit campaign Twitter group, Leave.EU, notably backed by Mr Nigel Farage, posted a tweet on Tuesday, the 3rd of April 2018, and was forced to correct it. However, the corrected tweet is still completely inaccurate. The original tweet contained an infographic about London, called...
A number of leaflets have been pushed through letterboxes on the lower Ravenhill Road area of Belfast which calls for people to “resist Islamisation”. The leaflet claims to be from a group called “Generation Sparta”, a white supremacist group. Mr Máirtín Ó Muilleoir, Sinn Féin MLA,...
Mr Maurice Bradley, Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) East Derry Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA), has been heavily criticised for retweeting a post that described Mr Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, as “the enemy within”. The tweet originated from an account which is claimed to regularly...
Yesterday, the 3rd of April 2018, was supposed to be a terrifying day in which hate crimes would be inflicted on British Muslims. However, it became a day of beautiful community solidarity against Islamophobia. In a vile letter sent to various addresses last month a game was set out in which a...
