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Nearly 5,000 people have called on Britain’s press regulator to launch a probe into racism in the media after an article in The Sun chillingly referred to “the Muslim Problem.”
Campaign group Global Justice Now urged people to email the Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso).
It followed a call from the National Union of Journalists when its ethics council chair Chris Frost said Ipso should launch “an immediate investigation into the prevalence of Islamophobia, racism and hatred espoused in the press.”
The Muslim Council of Britain and anti-Islamophobia groups including Tell Mama and Faith Matters have also issued a formal complaint to the watchdog, likening the Sun’s column to nazi propaganda.
Global Justice Now’s Kahra Wayland-Larty said: “There seems to be a real sense of impunity in certain sections of the UK press, that they can print the most horrendous slurs and dehumanising stories about Muslims, migrants and refugees and get away with it.
“The press regulator can’t just sit idly by while much of the media descends into a frenzy of racist and Islamophobic hatemongering against whole sections of UK society.”
