** 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,...
BBC News and Belfast Live report on a pregnant Sudanese woman who has been forced to vacate her home with her family in East Belfast after suffering from racially-motivated hate crime. A number of rocks were thrown through the windows of the family’s home in the London Road area of East Belfast...
Columnist Katie Hopkins once again prompted outrage on Thursday when she posted a message on Twitter that read: “Explosion in France, shooting at a German hospital, knife attack in London. And Ramadan has not yet begun,” adding “Without food these sods get nasty.” Her remarks resulted...
The Church of England chief for education, Derek Holloway, has warned that laws allowing children to be exempt from learning about wider religious views – particularly Islam – are ‘dangerous’ and only encourage religious hatred. Holloway has argued that parents should be banned...
The Derry Journal reports on a police appeal for information after a race hate crime in the city left a man with serious injuries. The assault occurred in the Rossdowney Road area of Derry on Sunday 16 April. Constable Steele, from the Police Service of Northern Ireland, said, “It was reported...
Local paper Times and Star reports that police in Cumbria are investigating a racist incident which occurred in Workington earlier this month. Racist comments were made towards a group of four Asian women in their twenties during the incident in Washington Square at approximately 8pm on Saturday...
Yorkshire Coast Radio reports on an ongoing police investigation into a suspected race hate incident in Scarborough. A man allegedly approached a house in the Queen’s Terrace area of the town at around 7pm on Sunday 23 April before shouting racist abuse at the residents. The man is also alleged...
The United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) announced that if in power they would ban the face veil, prevent any more Islamic schools from being built and require any girls deemed at risk from Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) to have yearly medical checks. The proposals came as part of the...
BBC News reports on the launch of a new online hate crime hub by London mayor Sadiq Khan to support online hate crime victims in the capital. Five specially trained Metropolitan Police officers will make up the hub, which aims to improve police responses to online hate. The dedicated officers will...
Paul Golding, the leader of far-right group Britain First, has been condemned for posting a Twitter video which he claimed showed “a crowd of ‘moderate’ Muslims celebrating the Paris terror attack in London”. The video footage is real but Golding’s description is a complete fabrication...
The Birmingham Mail reports on the “shocking” racially aggravated attack of an 11-year-old boy playing on the street in the Acocks Green area of the city last Friday. The newspaper reports that the boy was innocently playing football with a friend when he was racially abused and beaten up. The...
