** 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,...
The BBC reports that Adrian Brown, 38, was said to have stabbed a Muslim man on the London overground last year because he experienced a “severe psychotic episode”. Southwark Crown Court clarified that other passengers saved Muhammed Ali’s life. Mr Brown agrees he carried out the attack but...
Metro reported that a taxi man fought back against a racist thug who was spewing racist comments. Footage collected by onlookers displays how Attiq Khan took matters into his own hands and began squaring up to the hooded youth. The 29-year-old taxi driver was sitting in his...
The Ferret reports Left wing group Antifa videoed its members converging on a pub in Glasgow where Generation Identity (Alba/Scotland) met in July. Antifa believe that Generation identity is a neo-fascist group and that one of its members is a neo-Nazi from Poland. Generation Identity...
The Independent reports that a boat chartered by far-right activists who sought to hamper the rescue of refugees in the Mediterranean has ended its mission after enduring many embarrassing setbacks. Defend Europe, which consists of a network of young anti-immigrant and anti-Islam activists,...
The EasternEye reports that a leadership candidate for the UK’s anti-immigrant far-right party has come up with a radical plan to cut “unnecessary population” in the UK by “incentivising” some migrants, including from India, to return to the country of their origin. John Rees-Evans, a...
Andrew Jenkinson, age 41, was found guilty of assaulting and abusing an anti-racism campaigner in Edinburgh, the Scotsman reports. On 21 September 2016, Dominic O’Hara was handing out anti-racism leaflets at a “Fight Racism” stall near the Mosque Kitchen in Edinburgh. Jenkinson approached...
Sarah Champion, Labour MP, resigned from her post as Shadow Equalities Secretary following criticism of her controversial column in the Sun, the BBC reports. “British Pakistani men ARE raping and exploiting white girls… and it’s time we faced up to it” was the title of Champion’s...
The Independent reports that more than 100 cross-party politicians have signed an open letter demanding action over a column in The Sun for “using Nazi-like language” regarding the Muslim community in Britain. In a scathing letter, MPs from Labour, Conservatives, Liberal...
Background On Friday 7 July 2017 just before Friday prayers at around 1:30pm, Mr. Muhammad Chamoune was stopped and searched by the police on Park Road, London, outside Abbey Lodge near Regent’s Park Mosque (the video footage can be seen here). For further background information please refer to...
Citing police intelligence sources, the Sunday Times reports that the UK police are investigating around 40 people belonging to the Neo-Nazi movement on suspicion of attempting to prepare terror attacks targeting Muslims. According to The Sunday Times, most of the suspects live in Yorkshire. The...
