** 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 Shropshire Star reports on threats received by a Muslim businessman in Telford after his shop sign was used in a video by the far right group by Britain First to claim it was “proof of Islamic extremism in Wellington”. The shop, Silicon Valley, bears a symbol on its shop front in...
The West Sussex County Times reports on the court appearance of a man charged with posting comments on Facebook “intended to stir up religious hatred”. Nigel Pelham, 49, is alleged to have posted comments on the social media site calling for the introduction of a “bomb a mosque...
Local news sources Slough Observer and Slough Express report on the sentencing of a man who racially abused a woman in a supermarket car park in Slough last month. Christopher Makepeace, 65, shouted “go back to your own country”, “terrorist” and other abusive words at...
The Guardian and BBC News report on the court hearing of a man who admitted ripping the niqab off a Muslim woman at a shopping centre in Sunderland in July 2015. Peter Scotter, 55, shouted “you are in our country now” when he attacked his victim, who was waiting for her husband...
BBC News, ITV News and Daily Telegraph all report on the sentencing of a solicitor who racially abused a mother and her young son as they travelled on a train from London to Glasgow last December. Sanaa Shahid and her four year old son, Zayn, were travelling home in a first class carriage on...
The Evening Standard reports on a woman who was abused and called a “race traitor” as she made her way to the protest against Donald Trump in central London on Saturday 4 February. Sophia Nicolov, a 23-year-old student from London, was on a Piccadilly Line tube train with her sister Alice...
The Huddersfield Examiner reports on the court appearance of a man who racially abused an Asian female and her male relative and threatened to “end” them after the woman parked her car outside his house in Liversedge, Huddersfield. Steven Townsend, 59, called the woman a “dirty P***”...
The Bolton News reports on a takeaway in the town where staff allege to have been subjected to “vandalism, intimidation and racial abuse” over the past few weeks. Mohammad Khan, who works at the Kearsley Pizza and Kebab House in Springfield Road, Kearsley, told the local paper that...
The Independent and The Chronicle report on a suspected hate crime in Sunderland where the Jami-Masjid on Chester Road was vandalised and the words “Muslims Out” daubed on its outer walls. The incident is believed to have happened sometime between Friday 27 and Saturday 28 January....
Amidst coverage in the Derby Telegraph of a protest in Derby against President Donald Trump’s ‘Muslim ban,’ organised by Stand Up to Racism, is an account of an alleged incident of racist abuse recently experienced by one protestor. The protest was staged on the steps of Council House in...
