The Kingston Guardian covers the trial of nine men accused of attacking a mosque in Kingston in November 2010. From the local paper: “A rowdy, threatening mob that attacked Kingston Mosque with baseball bats and left worshippers inside in fear were caught on CCTV, a court has heard.
The Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy, appointed by the two Houses to scrutinise and consider the Government’s National Security Strategy (NSS), has today published its first review on the NSS. The report questions the Government’s policy on maintaining the UK’s influence in...
Sajjad Karim MEP for North West England has written an article for the Huffington Post in which he highlights the need for Britain to act against the rise of far right political parties, like the BNP, by addressing their potent racism and by reaching out to the communities who have been alienated...
Islamophobia Watch draws attention to a report in the Northampton Chronicle and Echo on the court appearance of an EDL member charged with making religiously-aggravated threats to a Muslim taxi driver. The man will stand trial later this month, but was refused bail by the judge on grounds of a...
Channel 4 on Monday broadcast ‘Keith Allen Meets Nick Griffin’, a documentary in which Keith Allen (the actor/comedian/musician, perhaps better known as the father of the singer Lily Allen) interviewed the leader of the BNP, Nick Griffin, aiming to “penetrate the headlines and discover what...
It seems that the subject of ‘ritually slaughtered’ meat is being made a real issue as political parties in France try and win-over voters from the far-right in the wake of upcoming presidential elections. Reuters reports that the French PM Francois Fillon told French Muslims and Jews yesterday...
With ongoing discussion in international political fora concerning Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons programme, economic sanctions and the possible threat of Israel launching unilateral military action against Iran, there were some interesting comment pieces published last week critically...
The issue of whether “we are being brainwashed into confrontation with Iran,” as posed by Simon Jenkins in last week’s Guardian, might reasonably be extended to the BBC given the public service broadcaster’s publication of this ‘analysis’ by Jonathan Marcus, the BBC diplomatic...
The Observer covers a Chatham House report to be launched this week on an audit of attitudes among Britain’s far-right extremists which shows ‘significant support’ for planned violent attacks. From The Observer: “Significant numbers of far-right supporters in the UK consider...
Police officers at Leicestershire Constabulary have released a CCTV image of a man they want to trace in connection with an incident at Usmani mosque in Spinney Hill, Leicester. From the Constabulary’s website: “A banner displayed on the external wall of the Usmani Mosque in St Saviours Road...
