The Sunderland Echo, Sky Tyne and Wear, and ITV have all reported on arrests at a protest which took place in Sunderland at the weekend against a planned mosque. The local paper reports that around 20 members of the Northern Patriotic Front (NPF) gathered outside the mosque site. Around 60...
Mail on Sunday columnist, Peter Hitchens, regurgitated his ‘Eurabia’ style antipathy for Muslims in a short column in yesterday’s paper. Hitchens, writing on the recent ruling by the appeals court on Abu Qatada, suggests that “The real Islamist threat to Britain comes from mass immigration...
The Bristol Post reports on the arrest of two local men, one of them the leader of the English Defence League in Bristol, in relation to incidents of criminal damage against two mosques and a Sikh temple in the Redfield area of the city. The letters ‘EDL’ were spray-painted onto the...
BBC News reports on the arrest of a woman in connection to racist spray painting in view of a mosque in Woking on Monday. From the BBC: “A 19-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of racially aggravated criminal damage after abusive words were spray painted in view of a mosque. “Surrey...
The notorious anti-Muslim website, Harry’s Place, featured an article by pseudonymous blogger Lucy Lips on Islam Channel CEO Mohamed Ali Harrath, claiming he was ‘leaping to the defence’ of Abu Qatada following the appeal court’s decision to release him from detention. HP cites comments...
Media output in the past few days has been dominated by coverage and commentary on the escalation of deadly violence in Gaza with Israel once again bombarding the territory. An editorial in the Independent yesterday warned that “the killing of Mr Jabari…amounts to a new declaration of war on...
BBC News reports on comments made by the Conservative MP for Keighley, Kris Hopkins, during a parliamentary debate on child sexual exploitation in which Hopkins referred to “gangs of Muslim men … going round and raping white kids” and appeared to blame “sexist behaviour by Muslim men...
The Guardian’s Defence and Security blog carries an article by Richard Norton-Taylor on the Justice and Security Bill and its proposals to extend ‘closed material procedures’ (CMPs) or ‘secret trials’ to civil courts. The House of Lords is due to vote on the bill next week. Norton-Taylor...
The media has widely reported (see BBC News, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, The Sun, Daily Express and Daily Mail) on the appeals court’s ruling on Monday rejecting the Home Secretary’s case for deporting Abu Qatada to Jordan. The Special Immigration Appeal Commission (SIAC) ruled that Abu Qatada...
BBC News reports guilty plea entered by Grant Robertson at Dundee Sheriff Court for racially aggravated assault after he threw a sword at three Muslim men who were fleeing a fire. From the BBC: “A Dundee man hurled a sword at three Muslim men as they stood outside a block of flats after escaping...
