BBC Adds Another Pillar in Islam In an article on hijab and female dress, the BBC inaccurately wrote “One of the main pillars of the religion of Islam is female modesty”. After Miqdaad Versi, Assistant Secretary general of the MCB co... Media Media Misreporting Mar 1, 2018 MCB News
Mail on Sunday Updates Sensationalist Article After Claiming Chair of Governor Resigned Because ‘Staff Too Frightened to Come to School’ The Mail on Sunday updated a sensationalist article that claimed Mr Arif Qawi, Chair of Governors at St Stephens school in Newham, resigned “because staff were frightened to come into school” due to t... Media Media Misreporting Mar 1, 2018 MCB News
The Sunday Times on the MCB: Getting the Facts Right 28 January 2018 Today The Sunday Times has published an article with a number of assertions about the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), primarily aimed at de-legitimising the organisation. The MCB is t... General News Media Jan 28, 2018 MCB News
National Conference Kick Starts Consultation for Better Mosques 20 January 2018 Mosque leaders from across the country joined a major national conference today exploring the evolving role of mosques in 21st century Britain. Organised by the Muslim Council of Brita... Charity Education Inter Faith International Affairs Intra-Faith Islam Islamophobia Law Media Mosques Muslims Press Releases Spiritual Women Young People Jan 20, 2018 MCB News
Mail Online Retracts FALSE Headline Claiming 84% of Men Convicted of Grooming are Asian On 23rd December 2017, after the Mail Online published a false headline claiming 84% of men convicted of grooming are Asian. After Assistant Secretary General of the MCB, Miqdaad Versi, complained, th... Media Media Misreporting Dec 31, 2017 MCB News
BBC Finally Corrects Inaccurate Citation of Kavanagh’s ‘The Muslim Problem’ After 4 months of complaining, the BBC eventually corrected an article it had incorrectly citing Trevor Kavanagh’s worrying article writing about ‘The Muslim Problem’.... Media Media Misreporting Dec 31, 2017 MCB News
Mail Online Falsely Accuses Muslim Man of Parsons Green ‘Tube Bomber’ The Mail Online published an article on 22 September 2017 calling Yahyah Farroukh the ‘tube bomber’ even though he had not been charged with any crime. After MCB Assistant Secretary General, Miqdaad V... Media Media Misreporting Sep 29, 2017 MCB News
Anti Muslim Bigotry of The Sun’s, Rod Liddle, Reaches New Lows 15 September 2017 The anti-Muslim bigotry of the Sun’s Rod Liddle is so entrenched that even the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims must be Muslims’ fault according to him as he thinks that the rape... Media Media Misreporting Sep 29, 2017 MCB News
Absurd Articles in British Press Claiming Christian Footballer is ‘Devout Muslim’ In July 2017, a number of British tabloids, namely, the Daily Mail, The Sun, Daily Express and Daily Mirror published articles claiming Manchester United’s Romelu Lukaku was unable to pick up a Man of... Media Media Misreporting Jul 28, 2017 MCB News
BBC Removes Inflammatory Statement on Holocaust and Muslims On 28 June 2017, the BBC reported on Muslim school girls being racially abused on a trip to visit Holocaust Memorials in Eastern Poland, and included an inflammatory statement where they wrote ‘the Ho... Media Media Misreporting Jun 30, 2017 MCB News
Mail Online Victim Blames Mosque Immediately After Terror Attack on Mosque After the Finsbury Park Terror Attack, the Mail Online appeared to victim blame Finsbury Park Mosque (2 minutes away from the terror attack outside Muslim Welfare House) linking it to Abu Hamza, an ex... Media Media Misreporting Jun 29, 2017 MCB News
BBC Radio 4 Brings on Notorious Islamophobe on Today Programme Without Clear Introduction On 30th January 2017, on BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme brought on extremist conspiracy theorist Frank Gaffney without providing the audience information about his background, breaching BBC Editorial G... Media Media Misreporting Jun 29, 2017 MCB News