** 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,...
Local newspaper News and Star reports on the arrest of a man for a racially aggravated offence outside an Indian restaurant in Carlisle. The incident is alleged to have occurred around 8.20pm on Sunday 16 April outside the Shaha Tandoori restaurant on Botchergate. The restaurant, currently owned by...
The Huffington Post and Independent carry news of Britain First’s “invasion” of an Islamic bookshop in Alum Rock in Birmingham, prompting a wave of support in response from the local community. Britain First, who have been banned from entering mosques in England and Wales and parts of Luton...
According to police, a family from County Down were targeted in two racist attacks in two days last week. Two adults and two children had to be escorted from their home after a car was set alight in the O’Donnell Park area of Castlewellan. Police said they are treating the blaze, which...
The local newspaper Cumnock Chronicle reports on efforts to eradicate hate crime across Scotland via Police Scotland’s Hate Crime Awareness Week 2017. Hate crime offences are defined as being motivated by malice or ill will towards an individual or particular social group, on the basis of their...
Local paper Essex Chronicle reports on the sentencing of a man who racially abused a Muslim woman wearing hijab on a train journey from Stratford last summer. Lee Moss, 31, boarded the Shenfield-bound train at around 3.15pm on 14 July 2016, along with a woman wearing a headscarf, towards whom he...
The Evening Standard reports on figures showing that race and religious hate crime on London’s tube network rose by almost 60% in the six months following the Brexit vote last year. The figures, obtained via a Freedom of Information request, show that a total of 468 racially and religiously...
The Birmingham mother of four children, the youngest being just 15, who were led out of their home by armed police and forced to lie on the ground to be handcuffed, has described the ‘disgraceful’ treatment of her family by the police. She claims that the West Midlands Police, treated...
The Evening Standard reports on the conviction of two adults and a child for a “vicious and brutal” attack on a Muslim mother and daughter in Eltham last year. Paul Anderson, 37, 38-year-old Joanna Farrer, and a teenage girl aged 13 were all found guilty of two counts of religiously aggravated...
A baby was lucky to escape without serious injury after a brick, which was thrown through a bedroom window, landed in its cot. Fortunately the child was in bed with its parents at the time of the attack on account of being ill. The incident – which happened at the Tarragon Park home, in Antrim,...
An Islamic FinTech firm has today become the first of its kind to be authorised by Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority. FinTech firms are those using the latest technology to operate within the financial services industry. The London-based company Yielders, which provides services to retail...
