** 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,...
After giving a drunk and bloodied man money to help him get home, Muslims praying at Swansea Mosque were repaid by abuse. With blood on his hands and face, Jack Thomas took the £10 offered by the worshippers and sat on the ground directly outside the building on St Helen’s Road. According to...
Local West Midlands paper Express and Star report on a couple who were found guilty of racially harassing and attacking a Muslim taxi driver during a ride home last October. Susan Dimmock, a 52- year-old charity boss from Cannock, abused Mudassar Ali when he drove her home on the night of 31...
Imam Mohammed Mahmoud is reported to have used his body to shield the suspected terrorist – who had just driven a van into a group of Muslim worshippers, and who had been wrestled from his vehicle – from the fury of onlookers. Darren Osborne is believed to be responsible for the...
Wigan Today reports on the court hearing of a man who hurled a brick through a Muslim family’s window after drunkenly believing they were responsible for the Manchester Arena bombing. Matthew Ostick, from Standish, hurled racist abuse and threw a brick at the home of Kuwaiti-born Ahmed Al-Anzy on...
Our thoughts and prayers are firstly with the family of the man who has died and those that have been injured in this terrorist attack outside the Muslim Welfare House in Finsbury Park earlier today. We condemn this cowardly attack that targeted Muslim worshippers returning home from performing...
ITV News reports that police have released an impression of a man they would like to interview following an Islamophobic assault in Peterborough last week. A woman was pushed over and had her hijab pulled from her head while out walking on James Avenue with her daughter. The incident occurred at...
Local paper Devon Live reports that three men were arrested for racially aggravated offences outside a mosque in Exeter on Saturday. The alleged incident occurred at around 8.30pm on Saturday 10 June 2017, after a peace walk and vigil in Bedford Square, which had been arranged by Exeter Islamic...
Despite contradictory evidence, Britain First has posted an angry video claiming it had been “ABUSED” outside the East London Mosque for the “heinous crime of standing on a British pavement and filming”. The video recorded by Britain First leader, Paul Golding, includes a five minute...
The Birmingham Mail reports that two men have been arrested following an alleged hate crime at a Walsall mosque on Tuesday night. The incident is alleged to have occurred at the Jamia Masjid Ghausia Mosque, also known as Walsall Central Mosque, in Birchills Street on Tuesday 13 June. The two men,...
According to witnesses, Muslims eating before the start of their Ramadan fast saved residents when a huge fire broke out in the 24-storey Grenfell Tower in west London shortly after midnight on Wednesday morning. It is unclear whether smoke alarms inside the building were not heard or failed to...
