According to records of the British Transport Police (BTP), there was a “worrying spike” in the number of reported hate crimes committed on British railways in the aftermath of last year’s vote to leave the EU. Records obtained through a Freedom of Information request by the Press Assosiation...
Following the recent attacks in London and Manchester, the NSPCC has reported a dramatic increase in helpline calls relating to racial and religious bullying or hate crimes. Muslim, as well as Sikh, Christian, Black and Jewish children have contacted the helpline with similar accounts of abuse and...
Programme Title: Press Review Date of Broadcast: 20.06.2017 Time of Broadcast: 22:30-23:00 23:30-00:00 Channel/Station Sky News Subject: Melanie Phillips’ misquoting of President Sisi and blanket accusations accusing all Muslims of being violent killers. ...
On the 23rd of June, Jamil Azam, 42, was reportedly attacked and left unconscious by a group of thugs that entered his home and left behind racist graffiti. The father-of-four was working on the bathroom door when the attackers entered his home in Heckmondwike and struck him in the back of the...
On the weekend of the 24th of June, a group of Muslim women and children took to the streets of Biggleswade city centre where they set up a variety of stalls in order to share a message of unity and peace, by a means of engagement and understanding. The individuals were from a group called...
In reviewing the newspapers on Sky News on 20 June, Melanie Phillips made outrageous sweeping statements concerning the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims. She begins by stating that: The problem being faced by not just Britain, not just the West, but the whole of the free world, and the...
A man who threw a petrol bomb at a mosque was on Wednesday jailed for three years and nine months. 29-year-old Thomas Conington was convicted for lighting a molotov cocktail and hurling it at Edinburgh Central Mosque on 18 September 2016, resulting in the door of the building being set alight. A...
The Muslim Council of Britain warned on Monday that British newspapers were fuelling hatred against Muslims. The organisation’s words came in the aftermath of the terrorist attack on a mosque in London’s Finsbury Park, where a van was driven into worshippers on Sunday night as they exited the...
After giving a drunk and bloodied man money to help him get home, Muslims praying at Swansea Mosque were repaid by abuse. With blood on his hands and face, Jack Thomas took the £10 offered by the worshippers and sat on the ground directly outside the building on St Helen’s Road. According to...
Local West Midlands paper Express and Star report on a couple who were found guilty of racially harassing and attacking a Muslim taxi driver during a ride home last October. Susan Dimmock, a 52- year-old charity boss from Cannock, abused Mudassar Ali when he drove her home on the night of 31...
