Local paper, the Plymouth Herald, reports on a headscarf wearing Muslim woman who was racially abused twice in the same week by a ‘racist yob’. The woman, who is white British, was told to get back to her own country twice within the space of a few days by a racist thug. Police said it...
The UK Independence Party have been holding meetings at mosques and temples in an attempt to woo Asian voters and counter charges of racism, Manchester Wired reports. The BBC Asian Network also found that the party had visited a further 15 Asian places of worship since their first meeting at a...
The Daily Mail, London Evening Standard and the Daily Telegraph all covered news of two Islamic schools in London that are ‘forcing’ girls as young as 11 to wear full-face veils. The papers focus on two London schools, the Madani Girls School in Whitechapel, and the Ayesha Siddiqa Girls School...
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has published a report entitled, “Legislating Fear: Islamophobia and its Impact in the United States”. The report covers the period 2011-2012 and compares results with reports published in previous years. One of the main findings of the report...
Political Scrapbook covers the unearthing of the National Front past of UKIP councillor Robert Ray. Ray, who won a seat on Thurrock Council last year with a majority of 47, campaigned for the National Front as an organiser in the 70s in the London Borough of Newham. Ray, when probed about his NF...
Local paper, West Briton, reports on stickers, posters and graffiti supportive of the English Defence League cropping up on the back of road signs in areas of Cornwall. The paper reports that stickers stating ‘Home Rule’ have been found in Truro, St Agnes, Scorrier, Towan Cross, Carnon Downs...
BBC News and STV News report that a man who threw bacon into Edinburgh Central mosque has been jailed for 10 months. Wayne Stilwell, 25, was caught on security cameras attaching bacon to the handles of the main door of the mosque in January of this year. He then threw bacon inside the building,...
News reaches us that Masjid Al Falah, in Keythorpe Street, Leicester, has received an obscene and offensive DVD in the post. Last month, a number of mosques reported receiving ‘disgusting’ Islamophobic DVDs in the mail. The videos are said to contain obscene footage and feature insults to the...
A man has appeared in court charged with racially aggravated criminal damage in relation to an attack on a mosque in Neath last Friday, the South Wales Evening Post reports. Steven Davies, 21, who is also charged with assault causing actual bodily harm and a charge of common assault, entered no...
The Sun newspaper today splashes the niqab issue across its front page with a 4 point proposal: ban the niqab, or face veil, in nearly all public buildings, including schools, courts, hospitals ban the niqab in airports, banks and secure areas let employers decide about their appropriateness in the...
