Muslims and mosques continue to be targeted in the violence across the country.
- Associate Professor, School of Criminology, University of Leicester
Gove and Rishi Sunak trailed the change as a response to Gaza protests – but this definition has nothing to do with them.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has suspended the MP over his comments about Sadiq Khan but has conspicuously failed to acknowledge the Islamophobia at the heart of the scandal.
Tensions between Hindus and Muslims have been growing in Leicester for months. The city’s leadership needs to take the time to understand why.
Despite no evidence of a plot emerging, the Trojan Horse affair had a real and detrimental impact.
Comments by Boris Johnson about Muslim women were considered ‘insensitive’ but not Islamophobic.
The government’s definition of extremism falls short of what’s needed, but new definitions could make things more complicated
Again and again revelations about this form of prejudice are revealed and ignored.
History shows us that when police forces apply the rules unevenly, some groups are hit harder than others.
Why the extremism definition is unfit for purpose.
Extreme far right has changed: online platforms now enable ‘in-jokes’ aimed sending up moral outrage help bond supporters online.
Traditional ways of describing the ‘far right’ are becoming outdated.
For the first time the UK has a working definition for Islamophobia.
Is public discourse in the UK shifting to the right? It certainly seems to be.
Britain is experiencing a moment of great cultural tension. The US president isn’t helping.
Unless people know their information is secure, how can they feel confident about coming forward to authorities?
Amanda Spielman claims extremists are targeting schools to ‘pervert’ education and ‘undermine’ British values.
The US president has lent legitimacy to a small group of right-wing extremists by sharing its content.
Five serving members of the army have been arrested on suspicion of belonging to the group.
Criticisms that Peter Kosminsky’s drama about Islamic State is propaganda are wide of the mark.
Fed by the far-right, Islamophobia continues to make it into the mainstream – where it’s eagerly received by some.
And it’s not just Muslims who need to start them.
Germany’s far-right, anti-Islamic street movement is coming to the Midlands, and it has a familiar face at its helm.
Extra attention from university staff could make it hard to reconcile being publicly Muslim with being an ‘ordinary’ student.
The bizarre sting that felled a Tory candidate in Dudley all hinged on a long-running local row over a planned mosque.
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