The Daily Star and Daily Mail have both published scaremongering articles about the “hardline Islamic enclave” that would come about if plans submitted for a new mosque in east London are approved. The Daily Star goes as far as describing it as Britain’s first “Sharia-controlled zone”....
Sky Tyne and Wear reports that two people have been charged with being drunken and disorderly following protests at the site of a newly approved mosque in Sunderland. Police initially arrested thirteen people. From the report: “Police made 13 arrests when a protest at the site of a...
Roy Greenslade on his Guardian Media blog last week wrote about the prominence of apologies and corrections published by newspapers, commenting on cases involving the actor Nicolas Cage and the BBC against the Daily Mail. The Daily Mail apologised for an article describing Cage as a ‘tax...
Islamophobia Watch alerts us to a report in the Hemsworth and South Elmsall Express last week on the guilty plea and sentencing of a man who racially abused a Muslim police officer. From the local paper: “A man has pleaded guilty to subjecting a police officer to a torrent of racist abuse....
The Guardian today carries a comment piece by the paper’s former associate foreign editor, Victoria Brittain, on the “limits of the British, European and US legal systems’ commitment to human rights” in the cases of Babar Ahmad and four other men fighting extradition to the US. Brittain...
The Daily Mail and Huffington Post have both reported on an incident that occurred at the Freshers Fair at Reading University where the university’s Atheist, Humanist and Secularist Society (RAHS) labelled a pineapple with the name ‘Muhammad’. From the Daily Mail: “A group of atheist...
Just weeks after carrying a cover story article on ‘Muslim rage’ the American weekly magazine, Newsweek this week carries a cover story and article written by former Pakistani Ambassador to the United States and journalist, Husain Haqqani, asking ‘The Muslim paradox: Why do they always blame...
The Rotherham Advertiser has reported that the EDL will be marching in Rotherham next weekend to protest against ‘the sexual exploitation of young girls’. From the local paper: “Anti-fascist protesters have called for a peaceful multi-cultural rally on the day the extreme right English...
The South Shields Gazette reports that a former soldier and English Defence League supporter, Kenneth Holden, has been given a twelve month community-order sentence for posting messages threatening Muslims on his Facebook page. From the local paper: “A South Tyneside ex-soldier used his Facebook...
The Guardian reports that the director of public prosecutions, Keir Starmer QC, has declined support for a private prosecution, which would have seen charges brought in a UK court against British citizens Babar Ahmad and Syed Talha Ahsan, as the men launch their appeals against an ECHR ruling last...
