BBC News and Peterborough Today both report on repeat instances of vandalism in Ferry Meadows Park in Peterborough. The newspaper states it is the seventh time in two weeks that racist graffiti has been reported while BBC News Cambridgeshire claims it is the eighth time in a month reports of...
While some newspapers have been covering the inclusion of an “associate of Anjem Choudary” in the BBC’s new show ‘Muslims Like Us’ (see The Guardian and London Evening Standard) Sebastian Shakespeare at the Daily Mail draws attention to other goings on at the BBC that have attracted...
The Mail on Sunday published a correction in yesterday’s paper amending a piece of information reproduced from the Sunday Times last week which claimed Muslims were so segregated they believed 75% of the country to be made up of Muslims. The Sunday Times article, ‘Enclaves of Islam see UK as...
The two part BBC ‘Big Brother’ style reality TV show featuring British Muslims, ‘Muslims Like Us’, kicks off tonight but the show has already attracted attention for the inclusion of one housemate dubbed an “associate” of Anjem Choudary. Anthony Smalls, also known as Abdul Haqq,...
BBC News and news website Glasgow Live report on a police appeal following an alleged racist incident at Zayaan’s newsagents in Eglinton Street, Glasgow. The websites report that police have released the CCTV image of a man they are keen to speak to in connection with inquiries into a racially...
The Liverpool Echo reports on a suspected racist incident that is being investigated by Merseyside Police after a man claimed he was racially abused and assaulted by a taxi driver and his passenger. The victim, a 24 year old male student at Liverpool John Moores University, said the incident...
The Lancashire Telegraph reports on the jailing of a man convicted of racially aggravated threatening behaviour towards his Muslim neighbours. Philip Townley, 58, was serving a suspended sentence for a similar offence when he was arrested for racially abusing his neighbour, Raheela Hussain. Ms...
Avon and Somerset police have said in a statement that four street preachers arrested in Bristol city centre in July over an “anti-Muslim sermon” and charged with a religiously aggravated public order offence are due to appear before Bristol Magistrates’ Court today. The four men...
Dame Louise’s review will be added to a long catalogue of Government commissioned reports on British Muslims which talk about them without talking to them. The Casey review gives credence to the flawed methodology of the ICM poll conducted for the C4 programme What British Muslims Really...
The Slough Observer reports on the plight of a British Pakistani family who have said they are “living in fear” after a violent assault on their doorstep in the Hunters Way area of Cippenham. “ The family, who asked not to be named, reported an incident of alleged abuse to the police back...
