Islamophobia Watch points us to a report in the Sunderland Echo on a protest planned by the BNP today in Sunderland against the sandwich shop, Subway’s sale of halal meat in its shops in the city. The BNP have staged similar protests in the past in other parts of the country. From the local...
The Guardian Comment is Free carries an article today by the former chief executive of Index on Censorship and former editor of the New Statesman, John Kampfner. Kampfner looks at the way in which British legislation saw an increasing infringement on civil liberties under the former Prime Minister,...
Islamophobia Watch alerts us to a report on STV relating the sentence passed by an Edinburgh court on a Scottish Defence League supporter who posted racist messages on Facebook. From STV: “A man who used his Facebook account to post racist messages has been given community service. “Raymond...
The BBC has published its annual report, comprising reports by both the BBC Trust and the BBC Executive. As well as publishing details on its programming, finances and overall strategy, of particular interest in the report is the BBC’s assessment of its editorial standards on impartiality and...
Islamophobia Watch covers a post written by Ben White on Electronic Intifada which reveals the extent to which Dr. Patrick Sookhdeo, a notorious anti-Muslim bigot who peddles highly inflammatory and prejudicial stereotypes about Muslims and Islam, is involved in programmes supervised and run by the...
The Guardian reported over the weekend that a police officer in the Metropolitan Police Service who racially abused a Pakistani man whilst drunk at a train station has been dismissed from the force. From the Guardian: “A Metropolitan police officer convicted of drunkenly abusing staff at a...
The Intelligence and Security Committee has today released its annual report (2010-2011) and again, iterates concerns over the lack of defined metrics against which to assess the success of the Prevent aspect of the Contest counter-terrorism strategy. The report, in its recommendations and...
The Ilford Recorder reports on the outcome of an appeal lodged by a 15 year old who was sentenced to two years detention for his role in a religiously aggravated attack on the Redbridge Islamic Centre last year in which an imam was injured. From the Recorder: “A 15-year-old boy locked up after a...
There was coverage over the weekend on the demonstration by the English Defence League in Bristol on Saturday (Independent, Guardian, the Metro and local Bristol paper, The Post). The Post reports that twenty people were arrested during and after the protests on racially aggravated and public order...
The Observer reported yesterday on the findings of a standards investigation into the handling of the arrest and detention by West Midlands police of Rizwaan Sabir, a doctoral student at Nottingham University. The investigation into police handling of the affair shows that evidence given by the...
