A woman has appeared in court after spraying racially aggravated abuse across her landlord’s car after being evicted from her privately rented property. Dalina Pop, 34, sprayed words including ‘racist’ and ‘Arab’ across her landlord Ovace Miller’s BMW after she was told to leave the...
Herald Scotland reports on a police appeal to find a man who racially abused staff at an Indian takeaway in Stirling last week. A man went in to the Taste Budz restaurant in Maxwell Place at around 10pm on Wednesday 31 May and allegedly shouted racially offensive comments at staff. Police described...
By enhancing Muslim engagement in the General Elections and raising awareness and expectations about policy issues that impact on British Muslims. This manifesto has been developed to encourage British Muslim participation in the 2017 General Elections. We have produced this election briefing guide...
Local newspaper St Helens Reporter reports that a man has been charged with a racially aggravated offence after posting an offensive tweet following the terrorist attack at the Manchester Arena last week. Ryan Burgess, from St Helens, was arrested after comments he made on Twitter were reported to...
Viewers of the BBC’s Sunday Politics show on 28 May were horrified when its guest, Douglas Murray, produced a rhetoric that could be interpreted as calling for what some viewers deemed the ethnic cleansing of Muslims. The show gave a platform to Douglas Murray, Associate Director of...
A UKIP councillor in Hartlepool, the party’s North East stronghold, has urged that Islam is not a religion but a political ideology and that his party should “ban any Muslim from joining UKIP”. Last Wednesday, councillor Tom Hind, who has represented the city’s Seaton Ward since 2014, wrote...
The Lancashire town of Great Harwood saw Muslims and non-Muslims come together to celebrate Iftar, the ceremony marking the end of each day’s fast during the period of Ramadan, on 31 May. People from across the town gathered together to show solidarity with the area’s Muslim community. Speeches...
The Guardian reports that five senior teachers who faced disciplinary hearings over their alleged involvement in the so-called ‘Trojan Horse’ plot in Birmingham have been cleared to return to teaching after the proceedings against them were found to have contained an “abuse of justice”. The...
Conservative peer Sayeeda Warsi described the UK government’s policy on radicalisation as having been flawed for ‘years.’ Speaking at the Hay-on-Wye literary festival yesterday, she said policy-makers focused far too much on ideology as a root cause of terrorism. She insisted...
The London-based music ensemble, The Berakah Players, the professional band of the innovative multi-faith charity Berakah Arts, is to perform in the West London Synagogue of British Jews on Sunday 4 June in a concert entitled Law, Love, Life. The Berakah Players (the word means ‘blessing’ in...
