BBC News, the Guardian, the Independent and the Daily Mail all report on the findings of the Medical Practitioners Tribunal investigating the British doctor who attended to the Iraqi detainee, Baha Mousa. Mousa died in 2003 with 93 injuries to his body whilst in British custody. The Medical...
BBC News reports that a man who threw a sword at three Muslim men as they escaped a burning building has been jailed for almost two years. The man, who abused the trio with the taunts ‘I will kill you all’ and ‘Muslim bastards,’ admitted charges of acting in a racially...
The Home Office has published the latest statistics on the operation of police powers under the Terrorism Act 2000. The data looks at arrests, outcomes and stops & searches conducted under the Terrorism Act. Some of the key statistics are summarised below: Terrorism arrests and outcomes •...
The Leicester Mercury reports that a local councillor who distributed leaflets which criticised Muslims and made derogatory remarks about other cultures cannot be compelled undertake equality training. Councillor Graham Partner, who was elected to the Coalville ward in Leicestershire as a BNP...
Hilary Aked has written a more detailed article for Open Democracy picking up on the topic of a recent post on Spinwatch, the BBC and the longstanding debate about its pro-Israeli bias. Aked argues that claims leveled by both sides of perceived BBC bias cannot be right but there does exist an...
The former deputy editor of the Independent, Ian Birrell, wrote an excellent article recently in the London Evening Standard on the release of data on religion in the UK from the Census 2011, arguing that the UK has ‘nothing to fear’ from its Muslim citizens. Birrell begins with a review of...
The Times (£) today reports on the criticism levelled at the paper by the Deputy Children’s Commissioner, Sue Berelowitz, for “suggesting there was evidence” that sex grooming crimes are “disproportionately committed by groups of men of Pakistani origin”. Berelowitz made the comments...
We set out in this submission our concerns on the exercise of Schedule 7 powers, drawing on official, academic and anecdotal evidence and media reports. It is our belief that S7 powers are used disproportionately against Muslims, a claim corroborated extensively by qualitative data and the...
The BBC reports that a 21 year old male has been charged with racially aggravated assault after a pig’s head was found outside a mosque in Newbury, Berkshire. The incident occurred on October 23rd and the man is due to appear at Reading Magistrates’ Court next week. The defiling of mosque...
The Daily Telegraph’s chief political commentator, Peter Oborne, in his column in today’s paper scrutinises the Conservative Party’s relationship and attitude towards Israel and its implications for the Middle East peace process. Drawing on his documentary for Dispatches on the Israel Lobby,...
