The Mirror and BBC News report on the resignation of Conservative candidate, David Bishop, who was standing in the London Borough local elections for Brentwood South in Essex, after anti-Muslim tweets he posted and retweeted were brought to light. Bishop tweeted the message, “It’s good...
BBC News reports on another investigation launched into a British Muslim charity, Children in Deen, weeks after the inquiry established into Al Fatiha Global. The inquiry into Children in Deen was launched after it was found to have organised travel arrangements for Abdul Waheed Majeed, the first...
BBC News and local news site, MK News, report on the sentencing of a man for arson after he started a fire at a mosque in Bletchley, Milton Keynes, in March this year. Richard Bevington, 30, “admitted arson with intent to danger life and a racially and religiously-aggravated public order offence...
Scottish newspapers, the Herald Scotland and Edinburgh Evening News continue with reports on the case of Chelsea Lambie, 18, and Douglas Cruikshank, 38, who were on trial on charges of racially aggravated threatening behaviour in connection with a hate crime incident at Edinburgh Central mosque...
Further embarrassment for UKIP as more candidates espousing hateful views on minorities are discovered. Jackie Garnett, who is representing the party in local council elections in Oldham posted a series of anti-Muslim comments on her Facebook page under the pen name “Aunty Jack Aguero”,...
Local papers The Bristol Post, Gloucestershire Echo, Plymouth Herald, Lincolnshire Echo, Stoke Sentinel, and the Burton Mail all provide coverage on The Daily Mail’s report that of the approximate 1,500 Subway outlets across the UK and Ireland, 185 stores now sell halal-only meat. A...
Edinburgh Evening News reports on the trial of Chelsea Lambie, 28, and Douglas Cruikshank, 38, who are accused of racially aggravated threatening behaviour in connection with an incident at Edinburgh Central mosque last January. The mosque was defaced with strips of bacon placed on its windows and...
The Mirror reports on the charges brought against a man who daubed the word ‘Islam’ on the RAF Bomber Command War Memorial and the Animals in War Memorial last May, days after the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby. Andrew Patterson, 31, committed 94 offences over a six week period last year including...
Local paper, the Express and Star, reports on the trial of five teenagers in court for offences committed during an ‘eight-day racially-motivated crime spree’ in Cradley Heath last year. The teenagers, all aged between 15 and 16, are accused of “using threatening, abusive or insulting words...
Islamophobia Watch reports on the latest outburst by Baroness Caroline Cox, author of the Arbitration and Mediation Services (Equality) Bill, under which “Islamic courts would be forced to acknowledge the primacy of English law”. Cox, who has previously espoused apocalyptic views about the...
