** 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 London Evening Standard reports on an alleged Islamophobic attack on a woman in north London. The victim, a 27 year old female, was “knocked down and dragged along the pavement by her hijab” by two men who approached her from behind and tried to forcibly remove her headscarf. The...
The Independent and BBC News report on the successful prosecution of Paul Golding, the leader of far right group Britain First, for breaching a court order that forbade the group from entering any mosque in England and Wales for three years. Bedfordshire police secured the order in August...
The Oxford Times reports on the suspended sentence imposed on a man who verbally abused a Muslim male at a Tesco Metro store in Oxford on 8 October, 2016. Michael Hardisty, 33, admitted racially or religiously aggravated harassment with intent to cause Abdeeq Hussein harassment, alarm or...
Local paper, Peterborough Today, reports on the sentencing of a man who targeted a Muslim work colleague with “offensive material” on Twitter. Anthony Groom, 46, had worked with the victim at a Peterborough based security firm for nearly 10 years and had previously been known to make...
Manchester Evening News reports on a racist incident at an Indian takeaway in Salford where two women allegedly “smashed up” the shop while hurling racist abuse at staff. The two women, who were drunk, walked into the Tandoori House Indian takeaway on Liverpool Street in Salford and...
The two part BBC ‘Big Brother’ style reality TV show featuring British Muslims, ‘Muslims Like Us’, kicks off tonight but the show has already attracted attention for the inclusion of one housemate dubbed an “associate” of Anjem Choudary. Anthony Smalls, also known as Abdul Haqq,...
The Sun reports on the stabbing of a man on a London train by an attacker who allegedly shouted “who is a Muslim, I want to kill a Muslim” today, Monday 12 December. The newspaper reports on an incident at Forest Hill station in south London where a victim was reportedly stabbed by a man...
BBC News and Peterborough Today both report on repeat instances of vandalism in Ferry Meadows Park in Peterborough. The newspaper states it is the seventh time in two weeks that racist graffiti has been reported while BBC News Cambridgeshire claims it is the eighth time in a month reports of...
While some newspapers have been covering the inclusion of an “associate of Anjem Choudary” in the BBC’s new show ‘Muslims Like Us’ (see The Guardian and London Evening Standard) Sebastian Shakespeare at the Daily Mail draws attention to other goings on at the BBC that have attracted...
The Mail on Sunday published a correction in yesterday’s paper amending a piece of information reproduced from the Sunday Times last week which claimed Muslims were so segregated they believed 75% of the country to be made up of Muslims. The Sunday Times article, ‘Enclaves of Islam see UK as...
