** 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 Jerusalem Post reported yesterday that Britain has pledged £13.4m to the organisation Community Security Trust (CST) for increasing security provision around Jewish institutions, including schools, nurseries and synagogues. The government’s Home Secretary, Amber Rudd, described Jews as a...
The Guardian and The Times of Israel report the detaining of Jacek Miedlar, 28, a controversial far-right former priest from Poland. He was held by British border security at 8.40am in Stansted Airport on the 25th February 2017, hours before he was due to address an anti-Islam rally in Telford,...
ITV News and Chronicle Live report a story of a man who has been fined £250 for wearing a racially offensive t-shirt which displayed an anti-refugee image in a Newcastle shopping centre. Peter Hunt, 44, pleaded guilty to a racially aggravated public order offence for wearing the derogatory t-shirt...
The Evening Standard reports on the jailing of a white supremacist who “idolised Hitler” and posted “racist, Islamophobic, homophobic and anti-Semitic calls to arms on social media”. Sean Creighton, 45, posted an image of Hitler online with the message “kill the Muslims”. He possessed...
The Mirror and The Courier both report on the case of three men who admitted attacking Muslim takeaway staff in Fife following terror attacks in Paris in November 2015. Robbie Smart, 18, Connor Crombie, 19, and Darren Macduff, 18, pleaded guilty to attacking store owner Mohammed Khalid and employee...
A story on the MailOnline website at the weekend reporting on the announcement that Debenhams will sell hijabs as part of a new range of Muslim clothing to be launched in its stores from May, itself became a story after readers posted numerous comments online criticising the department store and...
The Burnley Express reports on a woman who has been fined for hurling racist abuse at a Muslim taxi driver and assaulting a police officer following a night out in Burnley. Jessica Horne, 26, insulted taxi driver Fiyaz Ahmed “20 times” and spat at him during a rant at a taxi office in...
The Mirror reports that UKIP’s immigration spokesman, John Bickley, has been “slammed for retweeting an outrageous cartoon” which echoed 1960s racism by using a political slogan not dissimilar to that used in the notorious Smethwick by-election in 1964. Bickley retweeted a cartoon...
The Lancashire Telegraph reports on the trial of a decorator who was found guilty of daubing racist abuse and drawing a pig’s head on the walls of a Muslim homeowner’s property in Blackburn. The paper reports Stephen Gary Oliver, 54, drew the offending images and then papered over the markings...
The Courier reports on the community order handed to a man who abused his Muslim convert stepfather via Facebook’s messaging system and telling him to “go and eat bacon”. Dean McAndrew, 28, pleaded guilty in December to using a public communications network to send grossly offensive or...
