There has been significant coverage in the press last couple of days on the decision by the British judiciary to grant ‘control order’ bail to Abu Qatada, a Jordanian who has been detained in UK for nine years, without charge or trial. Abu Qatada was convicted of terrorism offences in Jordan in...
There has been significant coverage in the press last couple of days on the decision by the British judiciary to grant ‘control order’ bail to Abu Qatada, a Jordanian who has been detained in UK for nine years, without charge or trial. Abu Qatada was convicted of terrorism offences in Jordan in...
Zaman newspaper publishes an interview with Richard Peppiatt, the reporter who quit his job at the Daily Star over its anti-Muslim bias. From the paper: “Richard Peppiatt, who worked as a full-time freelance journalist at the Daily Star for two years, claimed that editors forced journalists to...
Sophy Ridge, political correspondent at Sky News reflects on the media coverage of the report published yesterday by the Home Affairs select committee on the ‘Roots of Violent Radicalisation’ Surveying the media coverage and its near neglect of far-right extremism and terrorism, something...
Local newspapers, Waltham Forest Guardian and Glasgow Local News, carry reports of local mosques which are to be honoured by HRH The Prince of Wales for their fundraising for the victims of the devastating floods in Pakistan in 2010.
Leaders of the main political parties in Scotland have urged Glasgow City Council to refuse an application by the Scottish Defence League (SDL) to hold a demonstration in the city on February 25th. In an open letter SNP deputy leader Nicola Sturgeon, and Scots Labour, Conservative and Lib Dem...
There’s considerable coverage today (Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, Daily Mail and BBC) of the report published by the Home Affairs select committee on ‘The Roots of Violent Radicalisation’. The committee is chaired by MP Keith Vaz. The report itself contains some interesting points of...
The Surrey Comet reports on the case of a teenage boy who took an ornamental dagger to school for fear of racist abuse following the attack on Kingston Mosque in November 2010.
Islamophobia Watch draws attention to the BNP’s re-publication of the Daily Mail article of last week on a ‘strict Muslim’ convicted of rape. The Daily Mail’s habit of publishing articles which are written so as to inflame and pander to anti-Muslim sentiments is nothing new. The paper...
The London School of Economics’ Student’s Union newspaper, The Beaver, reports on several motions relating to combating religious hatred on campus which were debated at an Emergency General Meeting of the SU last week.
