** 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 Daily Mirror and local news site Kent Live both report on the court case of a man who abused a Muslim taxi driver and refused to get in his taxi as the driver was Muslim. Richard Nolan, 43, shouted at the driver “f****** c*** Muslim” and told him “go back to your own country, […]
The Huffington Post reports on the publication of the European Islamophobia Report 2016, revealing how Islamophobia is thriving and inspiring acts of violence targeted at Muslims across the continent. The report, compiled by 31 scholars and academics across 27 countries, details how anti-Muslim...
The Independent reports on comments made by Baroness Sayeeda Warsi calling for all those who fight for foreign forces to be prosecuted, including Britons who volunteer for the Israel Defence Forces. The UK’s first Muslim cabinet minister, who resigned her post in 2014 after the UK government’s...
Local paper Essex Chronicle reports that police have arrested a second man in connection with the attempted arson of the Al Falah Braintree Islamic Centre earlier this year. The two suspects allegedly set a rubbish bag alight before throwing it onto the mosque’s corrugated roof, causing the...
Local site Brighton and Hove News reports on a police appeal for witnesses following a reported incident of racial abuse at Prince Regent Sports Centre in the city. At 1.30pm on Sunday 19 March a 34-year-old man was preparing to use the sauna at the sports centre in North Road when he was subjected...
mend hosted an awareness raising stall on Saturday 11th February at Longsight Market in Manchester. mend volunteers were joined by Councillor Rabnawaz Akbar, Dean Rodgers from the Manchester Cathedral and the local Police. Members of the public were engaged on the rise of hate crimes and how they...
The Daily Record reports on the court appearance of a man who admitted threatening to smash up a newsagents in Paisley on 4 February 2016. Sean Little, 23, pleaded guilty to behaving in a racially aggravated manner likely to cause alarm and distress, uttering threats and threatening to damage the...
Chronicle Live reported yesterday on how the sentencing of a man accused of ripping off a woman’s niqab in a shopping centre had been delayed. 55-year-old Peter Scotter of Sunderland was set to appear at Newcastle Crown Court after he admitted to the charges of racially aggravated assault and...
We are shocked and saddened by the act of mindless violence that took place at Westminster and our thoughts and prayers are with those who have lost loved ones and with those that were injured during this incident. This act of violence is utterly deplorable and one that will find no room in any...
The Middle East Eye reported yesterday on comments made by Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, noted for being the first British Muslim woman to have held a cabinet post in the UK government. In an interview for the Sunday Times on 19 March ahead of the release of her book The Enemy Within: A Tale of Muslim...
