The Newham Recorder has reported the good news that pupils at an Islamic school based in East London have raised £500 for London’s oldest children’s hospice, Richard House, which cares for young people with life-limiting, life threatening and complex health conditions. From the local paper:...
The Guardian today carries a letter calling for the British citizen, Babar Ahmad to be put on trial in the United Kingdom. Ahmad is fighting extradition to the US where he is wanted on charges related to terrorism for offences which he allegedly committed in the UK. The letter, signed by a number...
Islamophobia Watch alerts us to a report in the Sunderland Echo stating that police were required to guard a council meeting at which the planning application for a ‘controversial’ mosque was being reviewed amid fears of protests and disturbance given the hostile campaign organized against the...
Following the BBC Trust review on the corporation’s coverage of the Arab Spring, the Guardian today reports on the appointment of Stuart Prebble to oversee the review on impartiality. From the Guardian: “Former ITV chief executive and Grumpy Old Men producer Stuart Prebble is to lead an...
The BBC reports that the Mayor of the French town Gennevilliers has reinstated four Muslim employees after controversy arose from their being fired for observing fasting during the month of Ramadhan. Mayor Bourgoin argued that the Muslim employees’ insistence on fasting amounted to a ‘breach of...
Islamophobia Watch draws our attention to a report in Luton Today claiming a senior figure in the English Defence League, Kevin Carroll, also the co-vice chair of the right wing British Freedom Party, is to stand in the elections for Police and Crime Commissioner in Bedfordshire this November....
The Guardian reports that the Sunday Express Newspaper has apologised and paid damages to the King Fahad Academy, a private school based in west London, after it published a libelous front page story last year in which it wrongly claimed that the school taught extreme Islam. From the Guardian:...
The Guardian reports that an order for the release of the minutes of cabinet meetings held before the Iraq invasion in 2003 has been vetoed by the Government. The Attorney General, Dominic Grieve, explaining the government’s decision said that the disclosure protects the public interest. The...
The Daily Mail has once again confused religion and culture in a report on the sentencing of a man who threatened to kill his daughter after she had a romance with a student online and refused to marry her cousin. The case involves what the DM describes as a ‘Muslim preacher’, and on several...
BBC Radio 4 recently broadcast the first in a two part series on Spain’s relationship with Islam and its Muslims, presented by journalist and former politician, Michael Portillo. Portillo explores the situation of Muslims living in a country which for almost 800 years enjoyed an Islamic empire in...
