** 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,...
On December 4, a Polish man with a history of depressive illness and alcohol problems drove his vehicle at the owner of a curry house, the Independent reports. Marek Zakrocki, 48, launched his attack outside Spicy Night, a takeaway in Harrow in north-west London. Zakrocki assaulted his wife, before...
The Birmingham Mail reports on the footage of a taxi driver facing “sickening racial abuse” after picking up two passengers in Sheldon. The incident began when the driver stopped to pick up a woman, thought to be in her 50s, outside Titash Indian Restaurant at around 11:30pm on Wednesday 15th...
On Thursday 30 November, a 19 year-old Muslim woman was told to remove her hijab by a McDonald’s security guard on Seven Sisters Road in North London. The young woman reported that the security guard stopped her and said that her hijab was a security threat, insisting that she take it off....
British MPs have strongly criticised Donald Trump’s re-tweeting of far-right extremist posts, and some have called for the cancellation of his state visit to the UK, the BBC reports. President Trump shared three Islamophobic videos posted by deputy leader of Britain First, Jayda Fransen,...
A Muslim traffic warden was egged and called a terrorist after he issued a ticket on a car in Folkestone. Kent Live reported that Jordan Tanner, 25, admitting to egging the Muslim traffic warden and calling him a terrorist after finding a parking ticket on his street in October. Tanner however...
The Press Regulation Panel, the body which independently oversees Leveson compliant press regulation in the UK, has released its latest annual report calling for urgent Government action to bring the full recommendations of the Leveson inquiry into press standards into force. The PRP’s second...
Buzzfeed News reports that over 1,000 teachers, academics and campaigners have signed an open letter describing Ofsted’s decision to question Muslim primary school girls who wear the hijab or headscarves as “discriminatory and institutionally racist”. The letter calls for Ofsted to...
A study by the anti-racist organization Hope Not Hate has found that anti-Muslim sentiment is being spread and amplified online by Twitter bots, fake news, and manipulated images, the Observer reports. Hope Not Hate researchers have been monitoring the blogs and social media networks of...
Newspaper regulator IPSO has once again shown its lack of bite by declaring Trevor Kavanagh’s “Muslim Problem” column free from any Editors’ Code infringements. Kavanagh’s article titled “Now Phil’s finally Out, he must shut door behind him” was published in The Sun newspaper on the...
The Independent reports that an armed man who “hunted for Muslims” to stab in London has been jailed. Mickey Sage, 24, “pulled a knife on people asking them if they were Muslim” in Camberwell Green in the early hours of 7 June. He was stopped and searched by officers before carrying out his...
