Islamophobia Watch yesterday covered the progress on concerns expressed by the National Association of Muslim Police that Muslim police officers were being targeted by the English Defence League and that the reaction of Home Office officials and the Met Police to these concerns was inadequate. From...
A column written in USA Today by Tom Kreattenmaker draws attention to new research carried out by a terrorism prosecutions expert in Portland, Oregon on ‘Race, Religion and the Perception of Terrorism’. Tung Yin of the Lewis and Clark Law School has written a paper analysing four case studies...
The Manchester Evening News and BBC News Manchester reported over the weekend on the arrest of eleven people on public order offences during an EDL protest in Rochdale which took place on Saturday. From the Manchester Evening News: “Eleven men were arrested by police today during a rally by the...
Islamophobia Watch alerts us to the decision of Bournemouth council which has ordered a Conservative councillor who made comments on Twitter in May, stating that only the English Defence League ‘stick up for the English’, to make a full public apology at the next council meeting for her...
Peter Oborne in an article in yesterday’s Sunday Telegraph explored some of the issues he probes in the Channel 4 Dispatches documentary to be aired tonight on ‘Murdoch, Cameron and the £8 Billion Deal’. Oborne’s article addresses the dubious relations between David Cameron, and members of...
Friends of Al Aqsa have received an ‘unreserved apology‘ from Ian Austin, MP for Dudley North, for suggesting in an article written for Labour Uncut, that FOA were Holocaust deniers. FOA, who had to pursue the case through the courts after requests to have the false allegations...
Local news site, This is Plymouth, covers the trial of two members of the English Defence League who are charged with resisting police officers during an EDL demo in the town last August. The police officers had initially been called to the scene to deal with a racially aggravated attack on a...
The Daily Mail and Independent both report on the Coalition’s plans to introduce legislation criminalizing forced marriages. From the Independent: “The Prime Minister will announce that forced marriage will be made a criminal offence following reports that up to 8,000 Britons are made to marry...
The Huddersfield Examiner covers the case of an ex-British soldier who has been fined for racially assaulting an Asian female police officer and telling her to “Go back to your own country.” From the local paper: “A Bradley man has admitted racially assaulting an Asian police officer....
Islamophobia Watch covers the news report featured on BBC London yesterday evening regarding the Charity Commission’s launch of an investigation into Leyton Mosque over allegations of its ‘terror links’. The report also features in the Independent today. From BBC News: “An east London...
