The Falkirk Herald reports on a racist incident at a Turkish takeaway where a customer racially abused staff after being refused a kebab when he failed to pay for his order. Andrew Fay, 47, appeared before Falkirk Sheriff Court last Thursday (22 December), in connection with the incident at Hot...
The Cumbernauld News reports on a motion proposed by two local councillors at North Lanarkshire Council following an incident of anti-Muslim graffiti at the Islamic Education Trust earlier this month. Independent councillor Alan O’Brien raised the emergency motion at a meeting of the local...
The Eastern Daily Press reports on the court appearance of a man who verbally abused staff at a Turkish takeaway and tried to damage their shop after he was refused service when they closed up for the day. James Chew, 36, appeared before Norwich Magistrates Court this week in connection with the...
The Daily Mail reports on a suspected racist incident on board the 105 bus service from Southall to Heathrow where a passenger was allegedly ordered off a bus because the driver took objection to his listening to “music” though he was actually listening to recitation of the Qur’an. Footage...
The Mirror and Daily Mail both report on video footage published on LiveLeak last week which purportedly shows a Muslim taxi driver being abused by a woman who refused to pay her fare for a journey. The woman, who was travelling with a friend, told the driver to “Go back to your own f******...
Glasgow’s Evening Times reports on the sentencing of two men for theft and abuse after they stole bottles of cider and shouted slurs at police officers at a Morrisons supermarket in Merkland Court, Glasgow. John McDermid, 25, and Conor Urquhart, 25, appeared before Glasgow Sheriff Court in...
The Sun newspaper reports eight prison officers at a Nottingham jail have been suspended pending an investigation into a “racist game” where they allegedly “goaded Muslim inmates until they had to be restrained” and then “kept score” with Muslims prisoners “worth the most points”....
The Independent, Scottish Sun and BBC News report on an act of vandalism on the premises of a mosque in Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire over the weekend. The incident is believed to have happened between 9pm on Friday 16 and 7.30am on Saturday 17 December. Worshippers noticed the graffiti when...
The Huddersfield Examiner reports on the sentencing of a man who verbally abused a Muslim woman and assaulted a three year old child after consuming his pub raffle draw prize of “eight pints of lager”. Jonny Karrasch, 24, approached Shabiha Shahid on 22 October, as she and her mother were...
The Daily Mail delivered a Christmas present to remember today with news that the newspaper’s infamous columnist, Katie Hopkins, has been forced to apologise to a Muslim family for two defamatory columns in which she accused them of being “extremists with links to Al Qaeda”; claimed their...
