** 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 Mail on Sunday front page yesterday covered revelations to be aired in an Al Jazeera four part documentary this week which reveals ‘plots’ by an Israeli embassy official to “take down” a Government minister known for his outspoken views on Israel’s illegal...
The Evening Telegraph reports on the court appearance of a man who shouted racist abuse at a shopkeeper after he was asked to leave a newsagents shop because of his inebriated state. Jon Hunter, 42, admitted behaving in a racially aggravated threatening or abusive manner and uttering threats of...
The Worcester News reported yesterday on the alleged racist assault on a Muslim taxi driver on New Year’s Eve. Sajid Bhatti, 33, was parked at a taxi rank outside Worcester Shrub Hill station at 11pm when he was allegedly attacked by a group of people. Mr Bhatti claims there were three men that...
The Scottish Sun newspaper reported on how a football player for Celtic, Moussa Dembele, has hit back against the racist abuse he got from a fan from an opposing team during a match against Rangers at the Ibrox stadium in Glasgow last week. Footage appeared online of an alleged racist slur shouted...
Four Chelsea football fans have been sentenced after they were filmed racially abusing a man in Paris during a Champions League match fixture in the French capital two years ago. The incident, which happened in February 2015, saw the football fans chant “we are racist, we are racist, and that’s...
The Plymouth Herald reports on the suspended sentence handed to a former soldier with mental health problems who sent bomb threats to mosques and Muslims in the UK. Jamie Bond, 43, sent letters in red ink to three mosques in Rotherham in Yorkshire, Bristol and Cardiff and to two men in...
The Sunday Telegraph front page article on 1 January claimed that the number of extremists abusing the charity sector are at an all-time high. It claimed the number of times the Charity Commission has raised concerns about links between charities and extremism with police and other agencies has...
On 27 December, three Muslim women confronted a man who allegedly called them “f***ing p***s” in a busy shopping centre in Hull. Footage from the incident filmed on a mobile phone was later posted on YouTube by one of the victims and was posted on the Mail Online website last week. It shows the...
The Derby Telegraph and Daily Mail reported last week on an alleged assault on a Muslim taxi driver in Normanton, Derby who was subjected to a “brutal” ordeal by a passenger who refused to pay her taxi fare following a late night journey. Shahid Iqbal, 50, was driving the female...
The South Wales Evening Post reports on the trial of a pensioner who racially abused a Polish Muslim convert, telling her to “go back to your own country” and shouted at her to remove her niqab. Bert Fahy, 75, appeared before Swansea Magistrates’ court in connection with the...
