Background On Friday 7 July 2017 just before Friday prayers at around 1:30pm, Mr. Muhammad Chamoune was stopped and searched by the police on Park Road, London, outside Abbey Lodge near Regent’s Park Mosque (the video footage can be seen here). For further background information please refer to...
The Telegraph reports that an extreme right-wing anti-Muslim organisation called “Defend Europe” has announced its intention to patrol the Mediterranean Sea and halt the flux of migrants seeking refuge in Europe. The group, made up of young people from France, Germany, Austria and Italy,...
ITV News reports that a man has been jailed for violently attacking staff members at a takeaway in Luton. Steven Brown, 26, was found guilty of racially/religiously aggravated common assault and racially/religious aggravated criminal damage at Luton Magistrates’ Court. The court heard how Brown...
A burger van owner from Penrith has been found guilty by magistrates in Carlisle after refusing to serve a customer who argued against his anti-Islamic views. James Gardiner, 73, was convicted of using abusive words or behaviour likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress, which was religiously...
Thousands of people attended the Palestine Expo hosted in London last weekend, despite fierce attempts by pro-Israel lobby groups to have the event cancelled. Europe’s largest pro-Palestine event, held over five floors of the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in Westminster, combined art...
On Friday 7 July 2017 just before Friday prayers at around 1:30pm, Mr. Muhammad Chamoune was stopped and searched by the police on Park Road, London, outside Abbey Lodge near Regent’s Park Mosque. Footage of the stop and search has been widely distributed via social media and is available to...
The Sunderland Echo reports that the man who pulled a niqab off a woman’s face and called her a “stupid” Muslim has been jailed for 15 months. Peter Scotter, 56, brutally removed the Muslim woman’s face veil at the Bridges Shopping Centre, in Sunderland, while she was waiting outside a shop...
Teachers have claimed the Prevent strategy is stigmatising pupils and harming efforts at inclusion. In surveys conducted by the universities of Coventry, Durham and Huddersfield, staff at schools and colleges said they were worried Prevent was stigmatising Muslim students and stopping them from...
The Guardian reports that a man who attacked a Muslim mother and daughter, striking one of them in the face with bacon, was sentenced to six months in jail. Alex Chivers, 36, was filmed by a friend slapping the teenage victim with bacon during the attack, which occurred around 4.40pm on 8 June in...
A Muslim mother-of-two claims that Bradford Council advised her that she would not be considered to adopt children of other faiths and that they would not process her application because no Muslim children were available for adoption. Selena Afzal said that the council advised her not to waste her...
