Local newspaper St Helens Reporter reports that a man has been charged with a racially aggravated offence after posting an offensive tweet following the terrorist attack at the Manchester Arena last week. Ryan Burgess, from St Helens, was arrested after comments he made on Twitter were reported to...
Viewers of the BBC’s Sunday Politics show on 28 May were horrified when its guest, Douglas Murray, produced a rhetoric that could be interpreted as calling for what some viewers deemed the ethnic cleansing of Muslims. The show gave a platform to Douglas Murray, Associate Director of...
A UKIP councillor in Hartlepool, the party’s North East stronghold, has urged that Islam is not a religion but a political ideology and that his party should “ban any Muslim from joining UKIP”. Last Wednesday, councillor Tom Hind, who has represented the city’s Seaton Ward since 2014, wrote...
The Lancashire town of Great Harwood saw Muslims and non-Muslims come together to celebrate Iftar, the ceremony marking the end of each day’s fast during the period of Ramadan, on 31 May. People from across the town gathered together to show solidarity with the area’s Muslim community. Speeches...
The Guardian reports that five senior teachers who faced disciplinary hearings over their alleged involvement in the so-called ‘Trojan Horse’ plot in Birmingham have been cleared to return to teaching after the proceedings against them were found to have contained an “abuse of justice”. The...
Conservative peer Sayeeda Warsi described the UK government’s policy on radicalisation as having been flawed for ‘years.’ Speaking at the Hay-on-Wye literary festival yesterday, she said policy-makers focused far too much on ideology as a root cause of terrorism. She insisted...
The London-based music ensemble, The Berakah Players, the professional band of the innovative multi-faith charity Berakah Arts, is to perform in the West London Synagogue of British Jews on Sunday 4 June in a concert entitled Law, Love, Life. The Berakah Players (the word means ‘blessing’ in...
A 37-year-old Pakistani-origin doctor, who spent 48 “traumatising” hours saving the lives of victims of Manchester terror attack, was allegedly racially abused and called a terrorist after being told to “go back to your country”. Naveed Yasin, a trauma and orthopaedic surgeon, was...
In the wake of last Monday’s terror attack, Muslim video blogger, Baktash Noori, seized on small acts of kindness to highlight the unity and resolve of all Mancunians – by offering free hugs. In an attempt to demonstrate that he and thousands of other Muslims are reeling from the atrocity...
The Muslim community in Manchester is calling on residents in the city to be careful after the door to the Jamia Qasmia Zahidia Islamic Centre in Oldham was set on fire in the early hours of Tuesday morning, just hours after the horrific attack on Manchester Arena which killed 22 people. CCTV shows...
