The Birmingham Mail reports that a local councillor in Solihull has been suspended from the Conservative Party after retweeting a series of Islamophobic and xenophobic tweets. Solihull Borough Council’s Jeff Potts, a councillor for the Knowle ward, retweeted several offensive and...
MEND will be hosting a powerful line up of successful women speakers at our fringe event at the Labour Party conference today. The event, titled, Labour and Muslim Women Empowerment, will highlight the acute challenges Muslim women face in the spotlight of public opinion and in the workplace,...
A Muslim taxi driver in Leeds was falsely accused of sexual assault by aspiring police officer, Sophie Pointon, after he drove her home from a night out on 22 April, The Mirror reports. In the driver’s account, Pointon was highly intoxicated when she got into his car and became abusive...
A 12-year-old thug involved in a brutal attack against the son of a Syrian refugee has been convicted of racially aggravated assault by the Manchester Youth Court. The vicious hate crime involving schoolboys took place on June 24 in Blackley, Manchester, when a gang of five attacked a...
“Rent-a-gob” Katie Hopkins has once again made the news for sharing Islamophobic remarks on her Twitter account. As reported by the Daily Star, the 42-year-old has attracted harsh criticism after posting a photo of six Muslim women wearing the niqab, with the caption: “Hey, beautiful...
Dunfermline Press reports that a man is to be sentenced after being found guilty of uttering racially offensive language at a takeaway shop owner in Kincardine, Scotland. Mark Davis, 31, acted in a racially aggravated manner towards Mohammed Khan, after he was told the shop did not do a particular...
Romford Recorder reports that a Muslim doctor has been racially assaulted by a motorcyclist as she was driving past Pettis Lane, Romford. Dr Naila Imran, 41, was in her car when the motorcyclist knocked off her wing mirror as he moved past her. When she caught up with him and pointed out the...
Following complaints made by MEND and others regarding the Times’ article “Christian child forced into Muslim foster care”, the newspaper regulator IPSO has announced that it will not be investigating third party complaints made under Clause 1 (Accuracy) of the Editor’s Code. Unlike...
The Metro and RT report that a man who posted a message on Facebook calling for his followers to kill all Muslims has been jailed for a year. Keegan Jakovlevs, a 22-year-old from Wrexham, posted the message after the Manchester Arena bombings in April. Following the atrocity, in which 22 people...
The Nottingham Post reports on the sentencing of a man who admitted smashing a mosque’s windows earlier this year. Martin O’Connor, a 49-year-old from Radford, admitted breaking the windows of Nottingham’s Masjid Umar Mosque and Islamic Centre, in Alfreton Road, with a hammer. The incident...
