** 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,...
Nottingham Crown Court heard shocking evidence on the opening day of the trial against Paul Moore, 21, who is accused of attacking a Muslim woman and a young Muslim 12-year old girl. In his evidence, Mr. Lewis Welsh – the half-brother of Mr. Moore – stated that the defendant, who had come to...
MEND is deeply disappointed with the comments by Sir Mark Rowley, the outgoing Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, who stated in a speech on Monday 26 February that MEND was “seeking to undermine the State’s considerable efforts to tackle all hate crime”. We wholeheartedly...
New figures, released by the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime, show a sharp rise in Islamophobic crimes in London last year, the Evening Standard reports. With 1,678 anti-Muslim hate crimes reported in London last year – almost a 40% increase compared with the 1,205 reported in...
Jewish News was forced to issue an apology after suggesting that Baroness Sayeeda Warsi had sought to justify ISIS’s conduct, as well as objecting to “action being taken against British Muslims who murder and rape for Islamic State.” In the front-page apology, Jewish News writes: “We...
The Independent reports that a Sikh man had his turban ripped from his head while he was queuing outside Parliament. Police are investigating the alleged racist attack against Ravneet Singh, 37 from Punjab, India, who was about to enter Portcullis House to meet with Labour MP Tanmanjeet Singh...
A recent article notes that the London School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) is facing increasing pressure from governmental bodies to comply more actively with the requirements and recommendations of the Prevent duty. SOAS has attracted scorn from right-wing politicians and media for...
The Home Affairs Committee on ‘Hate crime and its violent consequences inquiry’ held an oral evidence session on the 20th of February 2018 with the following witnesses: Baroness Warsi; Professor Chris Frost, Chair of the Ethics Council of the National Union of Journalists; Mr. Nazir Afzal,...
A woman from Maidstone, Frankie Jo Schock, has been found guilty by the Maidstone Magistrates Court of biting a Muslim taxi driver. The court heard that the defendant bit the Muslim driver in a drunken state after asking the driver whether he was a “good or bad Muslim”. It was detailed that Ms....
The weekend witnessed the spectacular return of the nation-wide initiative #VisitMyMosque, facilitated by the Muslim Council of Britain, which saw hundreds of mosques opening their doors and playing host to thousands of Britons. Major figures of the political spectrum sought to make the most of the...
The Telegraph has issued an apology to Nasim Ashraf and his wife Hafisan Zaman acknowledging that their article, published on the 20th of February 2017, made unfounded allegations against the two. The article – no longer available on The Telegraph’s website – was written by Henry...
