Buzzfeed News reports that over 1,000 teachers, academics and campaigners have signed an open letter describing Ofsted’s decision to question Muslim primary school girls who wear the hijab or headscarves as “discriminatory and institutionally racist”. The letter calls for Ofsted to...
A study by the anti-racist organization Hope Not Hate has found that anti-Muslim sentiment is being spread and amplified online by Twitter bots, fake news, and manipulated images, the Observer reports. Hope Not Hate researchers have been monitoring the blogs and social media networks of...
Newspaper regulator IPSO has once again shown its lack of bite by declaring Trevor Kavanagh’s “Muslim Problem” column free from any Editors’ Code infringements. Kavanagh’s article titled “Now Phil’s finally Out, he must shut door behind him” was published in The Sun newspaper on the...
The Independent reports that an armed man who “hunted for Muslims” to stab in London has been jailed. Mickey Sage, 24, “pulled a knife on people asking them if they were Muslim” in Camberwell Green in the early hours of 7 June. He was stopped and searched by officers before carrying out his...
The Independent reports that a man was fined £500 for shouting racist abuse at a woman and accusing her of being responsible for the Manchester Arena terror attack. David Blagburn, 47 from Vicarage Mount, Walney, verbally assaulted Shahina Patel on a train from London to Manchester. Referring to...
Dr Shazad Amin Bow Business Centre 153-159 Bow Road London E3 2SE [email protected] 22nd November 2017 Rt Hon Justine Greening MP Secretary of State for Education House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA Dear Rt Hon Justine Greening MP, I am writing to you on behalf of Muslim Engagement and Development...
Muslim Engagement and Development (MEND) would like to take this opportunity to respond to Amanda Spielman’s recent recommendations regarding the questioning of Muslim girls who wear the hijab in school. The recommendation has emerged in response to concerns that the wearing of a hijab by girls...
Head of Ofsted Amanda Spielman has announced that inspectors will be allowed to question primary school girls who wear a hijab, The Guardian reports. The decision came after concerns that the wearing of a hijab by girls as young as four or five “could be interpreted as sexualisation”. In...
Jayda Fransen, deputy leader of the far-right group Britain First, was arrested in London on Saturday 18 November for comments she made while speaking at a rally in Belfast, Belfast Live reports. 31 year-old Fransen has been arrested and charged by the Police Service of Northern...
On Tuesday 14 November, Baroness Sayeeda Warsi delivered the fifth annual Hacked Off Leveson Lecture, calling for Yvette Cooper MP to implement Section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act 2013. Speaking before a packed room at the University of Westminster, Baroness Warsi talked about the...
