Dorset police are investigating an incident of alleged racism after a woman posted a comment on Facebook saying she hoped a few of the Lampedusa dead were Muslims. Nicky Hutt, 35, was branded a racist after posting the comment on Facebook following the tragedy last Thursday in which 232 African...
The Grimsby Telegraph reports that a man who attacked a Cleethorpes mosque and threatened Muslims following the murder of Lee Rigby has been given a nine-month supervision order. Leon Ramsey, 22, hurled glasses and a bottle at the Bangladesh Cultural Centre in Cleethorpes after spending the day...
The BBC Editorial Complaints Unit has partly upheld a complaint lodged by two viewers on the misleading attribution of a studio guest’s affiliation during appearances on news programmes last year. Jonathan Sacerdoti was introduced onto several news programmes discussing Israel and Gaza as the...
A 46 year old woman has been fined for racially abusing and punching a Muslim woman in south-east London, BBC News and Local London report. Tracy Davies, 46, shouted racist abuse before launching an unprovoked assault on the 55-year-old Somali woman who was out shopping with her daughter in...
Local newspaper, Luton & Dunstable Express, reports that police are investigating an attempted arson attack on the Al Hira Educational Centre in Luton. Bedfordshire Police have confirmed that they received a call from a member of the public on the morning of Friday 4 October reporting the...
The Daily Mail, Guardian and Lancashire Telegraph cover the story of two Muslim teenagers who have been placed in ‘isolation’ and banned from lessons after refusing to shave off their beards for religious reasons. The boys, who attend Mount Carmel Roman Catholic High School, in...
The Daily Mail reports on the decision by Bedford Employment Tribunal to uphold a complaint made by two Tesco workers of Muslim background who were locked out of their prayer room and forced to sign in and out by managers at a distribution depot in Crick, Northamptonshire. Abdirisak Aden and...
Peter Oborne, chief political commentator for the Daily Telegraph, has written a blog today about the ENGAGE fringe event at the Conservative Party conference this week. Oborne, who chaired the event, writes of Conservative policy on engaging Muslim voters, or the lack thereof, and notes: “If the...
The Daily Mail covers a conversation on LBC radio phone-in between London Mayor, Boris Johnson, and a Muslim mother whose daughter wears the niqab. Mayor Johnson spoke on the radio programme in support of a ban on face veils in classrooms. When confronted by a mother who wears the face veil and...
Local papers the Yorkshire Post and the Telegraph and Argus report that Bradford MPs George Galloway and Gerry Sutcliffe are calling on the Police and Crime Commissioner for West Yorkshire and Bradford City Council to ban an upcoming rally by the English Defence League. A planned march by the...
