** 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 The Guardian report on the Supreme Court ruling today which clears the way for Libyan national, Abdel Hakim Belhadj, to sue former Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, Sir Mark Allen, former head of counter-intelligence at MI6, the Attorney General, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and...
Polling agency YouGov has released polling results from a tri-nation survey comprising Germany, the US and the UK, on popular support for banning the burqa. Following the Moroccan government’s announcement last week of a ban on the sale, production and import of the burqa, and bans on the...
This supplementary submission is presented by mend (Muslim Engagement and Development) in response to evidence given to the committee by Mr Fiyaz Mughal on Tuesday 13 December. During the session, Mr Mughal abused parliamentary privilege to make a number of libellous allegations against mend. We...
The Nottingham Post and Daily Mail report on the sentencing of a man who stockpiled weapons at his home to “defend ‘us’ against the Muslims”. Roger Smith, 46, believed himself to be “a crusader against Muslims” and claimed to be preparing to “defend...
The Mirror and the Daily Express report on the release of CCTV images showing two hooded men “booting in” the door of the Al Falah Islamic Centre in Braintree, Essex, before setting a bag of rubbish alight and throwing it onto the corrugated roof of the building causing the flames...
Local newspaper, Bedfordshire on Sunday, reports on the sentencing of a man who verbally abused a Muslim security guard at a Luton based restaurant leaving the victim “fearful of further attacks”. Anthony O’Farrell, 45, appeared before Luton Magistrates’ Court on Thursday,...
The Courier reports on the trial of a man who abused his Muslim convert stepfather via a social media messaging system telling him to “go and eat bacon”. Dean McAndrew, 28, pleaded guilty to using a public communications network to send grossly offensive or indecent, obscene or menacing...
The news website Get West London reports on a suspected hate crime on King Street in Hammersmith on Friday evening, 6 January, where a Muslim woman was allegedly attacked by a diner at a restaurant where she was dining with friends. The anti-racism group, Stand Up to Racism, revealed details...
The Huddersfield Examiner reports on a fine imposed on a man who racially abused a security officer at Huddersfield Bus Station because a fellow commuter would not move her bags and allow him to sit down. John Arnold, 61, appeared at Kirklees Magistrates’ Court where he pleaded guilty to...
The Braintree and Witham Times reports on a suspected arson attack on the Al Falah Islamic Centre in Silks Way, Braintree on Sunday 8 January. The local paper reports police officers and a fire crew attended the incident in the early hours of Sunday morning when the mosque’s doors were...
