The Home Office recently published statistics on the use of police powers under the Terrorism Act 2000 and subsequent legislation. The report covers terrorism-related arrests, outcomes and stop and search figures for the financial year ending 31 March 2016. Below are some of the key findings: 255...
The Sunderland Echo, BBC News and ITV News report on the court appearance of a man charged with racially aggravated common assault after he allegedly tore a Muslim woman’s face veil from her face as she shopped with her husband and young child at the Bridges Shopping Centre in Sunderland...
The Birmingham Mail reports on a police investigation into an alleged racist incident after a woman and a four year old girl had ‘fake’ poo rubbed in their faces while out and about with family on a Saturday afternoon. Tayyib Nawaz posted details of the alleged incident on Facebook...
The Metro and Daily Mail report on the court appearance of a woman charged with religiously aggravated criminal damage after she shouted “Saudi Arabia go home” at a Muslim artist last month and destroyed her art installation. Mikaela Haze, 70, walked into the Royal College of Art on the...
The Metro newspaper reports on a Muslim restauranteur from Newcastle who has been the victim of anti-Muslim abuse since the Brexit vote decision was announced on 24 June. Shasiqul Islam who owns an Indian restaurant called The Bindi said that he had received copies of his takeaway menu defaced...
The news site Derry Now reports on an alleged case of racist abuse directed at a Muslim shopkeeper in Derry, Northern Ireland in which he was threatened with his having his face “punched down” his throat. Mohamed Ali was at his shop in the city centre at around 1.30am on Sunday, June 26 when...
The Blackpool Gazette reports on alleged racist incident in which Muslim woman was racially abused and had a can of beer thrown over now leaving her too afraid to go out. Rashida Begum, 33, was on her way to pick up her youngest child from school on Monday 4 July when she encountered a group of...
Kelvin MacKenzie in his column in The Sun today exemplifies all that is wrong with that paper’s editorial process when it sees for to publish a comment piece that decries the presence of Muslims in reporting and commenting on the Nice atrocity on Bastille Day. MacKenzie’s column takes aim at...
The Chronicle reports on an alleged incident of verbal abuse at Newcastle International Airport where a Muslim male was subjected to “vile” comments as he waited for his flight to depart. Amir Khan, 39, said that he was walking through the departure lounge at the airport on June 30, when a man...
The Scotsman newspaper reports on the sentencing of an ice cream salesman after he was convicted of shouting racist abuse at a Muslim doctor in Edinburgh. Edward Barr, 49, appeared at Edinburgh Sheriff Court last month in connection with the incident which happened on 8 July 2015. The court heard...
