The Huddersfield Examiner relays that a family moving into their new home in Kirklees were faced with racist graffiti daubed on their front and rear doors and walls. Nazi swastikas and the letters EDL were spray painted on. The family home was earlier vandalised with eggs thrown at the windows and...
The Sun newspaper reports on Facebook comments posted by a supporter of the English Defence League praising Anders Breivik for his “do[ing] what he thought was right”. Philip Horn, of Gillingham in Kent, wrote that Breivik was “…just one of many like myself who wish their country to return...
Local Middlesbrough paper, The Evening Gazette, reports on the conviction of six men, all of whom are associated with the English Defence League, for religiously aggravated disorder. The men were apprehended after shouting inflammatory religious abuse while at Middlesbrough railway station last...
The Daily Mail and Sunday Telegraph report on the appeal launched by two men convicted of terrorism offences after lawyers argued that material used against them in court was gained through torture. The men, Rangzieb Ahmed and Salahuddin Amin, claim MI5 acted in complicity with the Pakistani...
BBC News and the Guardian today both cover the US military report into an investigation over the Qur’an burning incident at Bagram airbase last February and the video footage of four US marines urinating on Afghan corpses. From the BBC: “Six US soldiers have been disciplined for the...
The Mail on Sunday this week published an article noting that the Premier League has taken the step of widening the variety of celebratory drink offered to footballers voted ‘Man of the Match’. With the growing number of Muslim footballers playing for Premier League clubs, the League has...
BBC Radio 4 this week broadcast a documentary looking at the growth in the market for halal products globally. Whilst ‘halal’ has traditionally been narrowly understood in relation to meat products, the concept of halal has extended to cover more than just the way Muslims slaughter animals. The...
The Waltham Forest News reports that the Metropolitan Police Service is facing criticism from local campaign group, We Are Waltham Forest, for not banning a planned protest in the borough by the English Defence League, set to take place in a few weeks’ time. From the local paper: “Campaigners...
The Midlands Business News reports that Birmingham’s Central Mosque has collected 2.5 tonnes of food, donated by Muslims in the city, for a local charity working with needy and vulnerable people. From the local paper: “Generous worshippers at a Birmingham mosque have donated 2.5 tonnes of food...
The Nottingham Post reports on the 10 month sentence handed down to two men who subjected an Asian family to a torrent of racial abuse. The pair have also been barred from coming within 200 metres of the family’s newsagents store. The pair demanded to know the family’s religious affiliation...
