** 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,...
Royal Mail has been told by ACAS – the impartial public body that acts as an arbitrator on workplace disputes – to pay £10,000 to seven men each, due to the organisation’s inaction over their complaints in regards to a racist KKK note. The note was left at the Royal Mail’s South West...
Numerous organizations have been quick to urge the Home Office to ban entry to Mr. Rafal Ziemkiewicz, a Polish far-right speaker, in response to Mr. Ziemkiewicz’s planned upcoming events in Bristol and Cambridge. Mr. Ziemkiewicz is a Polish author and journalist who has been heavily criticised...
On the 12th of February 2018, Coleraine Magistrates Court sentenced Mr. Ciaran McKeown to 10 months prison for spitting on and verbally abusing a doctor at Causeway Hospital in Coleraine, Northern Ireland. He was accused of calling the doctor a “P*** B******” and spitting on the doctor’s...
It has emerged that Ms. Amanda Spielman, the Chief Inspector of Ofsted, is to be questioned by MPs about her vocal support for a ban on hijabs in schools, after heavy criticism from community leaders. The Parliamentary education select committee will question Ms. Spielman’s comments in regards to...
A senior scout leader, Mr. Brian Walker, has been dismissed from his post after writing to Scouting magazine to protest over their feature of a scout leader who was a Muslim and wore the niqab. Mr. Walker, in regards to the niqab, said in his email: “they will most likely drown wearing that Darth...
In a recent article in The Times, the minister for schools systems, faith and counter-extremism in education, Lord Theodore Agnew of Oulton, has said that schools which ban the hijab and fasting will be supported by the Government in the event of a backlash from parents (and other organisations)....
A Nazi sympathiser who threatened to blow up mosques and kill Muslims has been jailed for eight years. Liam Seabrook, 31, told his probation officer that he planned to kill Muslims and petrol bomb mosques four days after the Manchester Arena terrorist attack last May. In response to a routine...
The Middle East Eye reports that the headteacher of St Stephen’s school in Newham – the school at the centre of recent controversy after it announced the banning of the hijab for girls younger than eight – has accused the Sunday Times of misleading the public by “twisting” her words in...
The nation-wide initiative, ‘Visit My Mosque’, will involve hundreds of mosques opening their doors on the 18th of February 2018 to welcome local community members of all faiths – and none – to have a look around and ask questions. The initiative, now in its fourth year, is organised by the...
Mr John Hanson, from Yorkshire, was sentenced by the Bradford Crown Court for posting messages on Facebook which advocated for violence against Muslims. The court heard that Mr Hanson had posted several messages which, directly or indirectly, called for violence against Muslims or blamed Muslims...
