The English Defence League returned to Luton for a protest on Saturday. The BBC reported that almost 2,000 demonstrators from the EDL and counter-protest group, We Are Luton, turned out with 1,500 officers drafted in from 22 police forces to oversee the march. From the BBC: “Bedfordshire Police...
The Daily Telegraph and the EU Observer have covered the findings of the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) annual report for 2011. ECRI is tasked with combating “racism, xenophobia, antisemitism and intolerance at the level of greater Europe and from the perspective of the...
The Bolton News yesterday reported on a protest planned for today against proposals to convert the status of Bolton Muslim Girls School from a state-aided faith school into an academy. From The Bolton News: “Campaigners are planning a protest outside Bolton Muslim Girls School tomorrow over fears...
Leo McKinstry in the Daily Express today grinds an axe against the system of legal aid in the UK arguing that “a radical idea would be to abolish it.” Concerning himself largely with the cases involving ‘Muslim terror suspects’ McKinstry bemoans the legal aid entitlement as...
In his column in the Daily Telegraph today, Peter Oborne writes about the News International phone hacking scandal, the parliamentary report this week on the scandal, and the political sleaze factor. Oborne’s article raises important issues on the significance of the select committee report, the...
Islamophobia Watch reports that a BNP candidate standing in the Coventry City Council local election has posted some extremely racist and Islamophobic comments on his Facebook page. His comments include the following (NB some comments have been censored because of the language used):...
As election campaigns draw to a close, with the electorate going to the polls tomorrow, news reports draw attention to two UKIP candidates whose views on Muslims, ranging from support for Anders Breivik’s ‘thesis on Islam’ to calling the Qur’an ‘a fascist book’, have been exposed. The...
The BBC News website today carries a feature item asking ‘Why do so few Muslims vote?’ The BBC article draws on data from a poll carried out by Ipsos MORI after the May 2010 general elections, in which 45 Muslims were represented in a total sample size of 3,586. From the BBC: “At the 2010...
The Daily Jang’s English language newspaper, The News, reports on the mayoral hustings held with Muslim Londoners on Friday 27th April with incumbent mayor, Boris Johnson, and his Labour challenger Ken Livingstone. The News highlights aspects of the discussion that took place, noting the...
The Sunday Telegraph published an article yesterday based on the findings of a poll commissioned by Lord Ashcroft on ‘Ethnic Minority Voters and the Conservative Party’. The report, Degrees of Separation finds that there is a significant lack in the ability of BME voters to relate to the...
