The Daily Mail, The Guardian and the Birmingham Mail all report on the testimony of the Assistant Head of Park View school, Lee Donaghy, to the Home Affairs select committee in which he lambasts the media’s coverage of the ‘Trojan Horse hoax’ and the portrayal of certain schools in Birmingham...
Headlines in the Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph last week claimed that British soldiers were ‘secretly’ being fed halal meat because meat served by the military in the UK and in overseas bases is not labelled. The Ministry of Defence’s response to a Freedom of Information request revealed...
The Guardian, The Independent, The Financial Times, BBC News and political news website Politics.co.uk report on UKIP leader Nigel Farage’s ‘pride’ at forming a political grouping in the European Parliament comprising two MEPs from Swedish Democrats, a party founded by white supremacists, and...
Local paper, Pendle Today, draws attention to the Al-Ikhlaas Primary School, an independent Muslim school, which has been ranked as ‘outstanding’ across all areas by the Bridge Schools Inspectorate (BSI). The school, which has 89 pupils aged between 4 and 11, was inspected over four days by...
BBC News reports on Labour MP Angela Eagle’s announcement pledging to develop “a comprehensive democracy portal” to inform voters about the electoral process if elected in 2015. Angela Eagle, Labour’s Shadow Commons leader, has been involved in a “people’s politics inquiry” through...
Sky News reports on the sudden death of a Muslim woman who was attacked in broad daylight yesterday morning while walking in Colchester, Essex. The woman, who was in Muslim dress at the time of the attack, was violently beaten by a man and then stabbed by a knife or other bladed instrument...
BBC News reports on the barring by Slough Borough Council of a group meeting on council premises at which Anjem Choudary was featured to speak. The council intervened, according to the BBC, after it was ‘alerted to the possibility that the group was linked to Al Mahajiroun (sic) or Muslims...
Following news reports yesterday of the murder of a female Muslim student in Colchester and the possibility of it being a religiously aggravated murder, MEnD have received statements from the local MP, Sir Bob Russell, and Essex Police and Crime Commissioner, Nick Alston. Both have been in...
The Mail on Sunday, The Sunday Express and The Times continue to fuel the halal meat debate with news coverage on the delay to implementing proposed new laws to reduce the suffering of chickens at time of slaughter. In an interview with the Mail on Sunday, a spokesman for the Department for...
The Daily Mirror picks up on the coverage on local news site Get West London of a story on the reduction in the length of the jail sentence imposed on a teenager for his brutal attack on an elderly Muslim man last July. The elderly man, wearing traditional Muslim dress at the time of the...
