The news site Derry Now reports on an alleged case of racist abuse directed at a Muslim shopkeeper in Derry, Northern Ireland in which he was threatened with his having his face “punched down” his throat. Mohamed Ali was at his shop in the city centre at around 1.30am on Sunday, June 26 when...
The Blackpool Gazette reports on alleged racist incident in which Muslim woman was racially abused and had a can of beer thrown over now leaving her too afraid to go out. Rashida Begum, 33, was on her way to pick up her youngest child from school on Monday 4 July when she encountered a group of...
Kelvin MacKenzie in his column in The Sun today exemplifies all that is wrong with that paper’s editorial process when it sees for to publish a comment piece that decries the presence of Muslims in reporting and commenting on the Nice atrocity on Bastille Day. MacKenzie’s column takes aim at...
The Scotsman newspaper reports on the sentencing of an ice cream salesman after he was convicted of shouting racist abuse at a Muslim doctor in Edinburgh. Edward Barr, 49, appeared at Edinburgh Sheriff Court last month in connection with the incident which happened on 8 July 2015. The court heard...
The Pew Research Center has this week published survey results which show anti-Muslim sentiment in Europe to be rising and more pronounced in eastern European countries. The results which are presented in the report, ‘Europeans Fear Wave of Refugees Will Mean More Terrorism, Fewer Jobs’, show...
The Guardian publishes an article ahead of the launch of a report by Rights Watch UK today on the impact of the Prevent statutory duty on Muslims in the education sector. Channel, the controversial counter-terrorism programme which rests upon ‘referrals’ to the process of individuals suspected...
The Crown Prosecution Service has published its eighth Hate Crime Report detailing the number of hate crimes prosecuted over the period 2015/16 and comparing to the previous 12 months. The report covers the different strands of hate crime and the prosecution and conviction rates arising from hate...
The Chronicle reports on an Islamophobic incident in Alnwick, Northumberland where a disused cottage owned by Northumberland County Council was vandalised with the words “Death to Islam”, swastikas and other offensive graffiti sprayed on the exterior walls. Police were alerted to the...
The Coventry Telegraph reports on handwritten stickers found in Rugby bearing the slogans “kill all migrants” and “kill a Muslim”. Other slogans spotted include ones using an offensive name for black people and ones stating “Immigrants Out” and “Immigrants not welcome”. The...
The MP for Chippenham, Michelle Donelan, has described a post-Brexit hate incident in which one of her former staffers, a British-Pakistani called Taimur, was racially abused while shopping in London. At Prime Minister’s Questions on 29 June, Ms Donelan told the Prime Minister, David Cameron:...
