Local news website Get Surrey reveals that police are appealing for information after a spate of vandalism in Woking, Surrey which saw anti Muslim graffiti sprayed onto businesses and homes in the area. The incident happened sometime between 11pm on Monday 7 December and 8.40am on Tuesday 8...
The London Evening Standard and local news website Get West London report on the discovery of anti Islam graffiti and a pig’s head on the streets of Hounslow. The local report notes that graffiti appeared on the pavement along Bath Road reading “Muslims hate us” and “Muslims...
Several newspapers today cover the intervention by Walthamstow MP, Stella Creasy, to press the US Embassy in London for answers as to why a Muslim family of 11 from her constituency were denied boarding a US bound flight from Gatwick airport despite having acquired travel authorisation in advance...
The Nottingham Post reports on the sentencing of a man who abused a Muslim taxi driver making incendiary remarks about “Allah”. The local paper reports on the case against Thomas Clark, 28, heard at Nottingham Magistrates Court this week. The court heard that on July 17, Clark and a friend...
The London Evening Standard and Mirror report on an alleged Islamophobic incident on a London bus last Sunday. Iqra Mohamed, 20, posted a message on Twitter about the alleged incident on the number 43 bus in Islington, north London at around 5.30pm on Sunday 20 December. Ms Mahmood posted the...
The South Wales Evening Post reports on the sentencing of two brothers for their part in a gang which subjected an Asian family to racist abuse. The local paper reports that the British Bangladeshi family had moved to Pontarddulais from Birmingham but the family had experienced ongoing racist...
BBC News and The Independent report on a suspected anti Muslim hate crime after two pigs heads were found at the Markazul Uloom, an Islamic boarding school in Blackburn. One of the pig’s heads was found on the railings of the school, the other was thrown over the school wall. Lancashire...
Wales Online reports on a former deputy leader of Cardiff council who has been suspended from the Labour Party after he posted what has been described as an “inflammatory and bigoted” statement about Islam on Facebook. Councillor Ralph Cook responded to the allegations by denying his...
The Guardian last Friday reported on a statement released by Waltham Forest Council of Mosques announcing a boycott of the Government’s “racist” counter-terrorism programme, Prevent. The statement follows a council meeting last Thursday in which a motion was presented which linked the...
The Huddersfield Examiner reports on the sentencing of a heroin addict who racially abused a shop assistant at a pharmacy. Kirklees Magistrates Court heard that Richard Hall, 36, had visited Lockwood Pharmacy on 26 August for his prescribed heroin replacement drug. But after Hall was caught...
