** 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,...
Teachers have claimed the Prevent strategy is stigmatising pupils and harming efforts at inclusion. In surveys conducted by the universities of Coventry, Durham and Huddersfield, staff at schools and colleges said they were worried Prevent was stigmatising Muslim students and stopping them from...
The Guardian reports that a man who attacked a Muslim mother and daughter, striking one of them in the face with bacon, was sentenced to six months in jail. Alex Chivers, 36, was filmed by a friend slapping the teenage victim with bacon during the attack, which occurred around 4.40pm on 8 June in...
A Muslim mother-of-two claims that Bradford Council advised her that she would not be considered to adopt children of other faiths and that they would not process her application because no Muslim children were available for adoption. Selena Afzal said that the council advised her not to waste her...
According to records of the British Transport Police (BTP), there was a “worrying spike” in the number of reported hate crimes committed on British railways in the aftermath of last year’s vote to leave the EU. Records obtained through a Freedom of Information request by the Press Assosiation...
Following the recent attacks in London and Manchester, the NSPCC has reported a dramatic increase in helpline calls relating to racial and religious bullying or hate crimes. Muslim, as well as Sikh, Christian, Black and Jewish children have contacted the helpline with similar accounts of abuse and...
On the 23rd of June, Jamil Azam, 42, was reportedly attacked and left unconscious by a group of thugs that entered his home and left behind racist graffiti. The father-of-four was working on the bathroom door when the attackers entered his home in Heckmondwike and struck him in the back of the...
On the weekend of the 24th of June, a group of Muslim women and children took to the streets of Biggleswade city centre where they set up a variety of stalls in order to share a message of unity and peace, by a means of engagement and understanding. The individuals were from a group called...
In reviewing the newspapers on Sky News on 20 June, Melanie Phillips made outrageous sweeping statements concerning the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims. She begins by stating that: The problem being faced by not just Britain, not just the West, but the whole of the free world, and the...
A man who threw a petrol bomb at a mosque was on Wednesday jailed for three years and nine months. 29-year-old Thomas Conington was convicted for lighting a molotov cocktail and hurling it at Edinburgh Central Mosque on 18 September 2016, resulting in the door of the building being set alight. A...
The Muslim Council of Britain warned on Monday that British newspapers were fuelling hatred against Muslims. The organisation’s words came in the aftermath of the terrorist attack on a mosque in London’s Finsbury Park, where a van was driven into worshippers on Sunday night as they exited the...
