The Scotsman reports that a man who sent Scottish Government Minister Humza Yousaf a hate filled Twitter message in March of this year has been fined £500. Johnathan McAuley, 20, sent Mr Yousaf a tweet in response to an exchange about former Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson, after Mr Yousaf...
The Exeter Express and Echo reports on the jailing of two men one of whom committed a number of crimes in Exeter, including a racist and religiously aggravated attack on the Turkish owner of a fast food shop in the city. Michael O’Donnell, 46, and Nicholas Jeffries, 52, verbally and physically...
BBC News reports that a Muslim family of nine, including four children, were refused permission to board a flight to the US from Gatwick airport allegedly because an official in the US objected to their travel to the country. Mohammed Zahid Mahmood, from Walthamstow, London, and eight members of...
The Daily Mail, Chronicle Live and ITV News all report on the suspended sentence handed to a passenger who abused two young Muslim women on a Tyne and Wear Metro train last month. Andrew Thompson, 26, got onto the train and proceeded to tell Kalema Rahman and her sister Fatema to “get the...
Sky News, Evening Standard and London 24 report the release of CCTV images of two young women sought in connection with an alleged Islamophobic attack on a London bus in October. The victim, a Muslim woman in her 40’s who wears a headscarf, was subjected to racist and anti-Muslim abuse by the two...
Sky News reports on an appeal by the Metropolitan Police Service for a potential witness to come forward in connection with an incident of attempted arson on Finsbury Park Mosque in North London. The incident occurred at 10am on the morning of 28 November 2015 and is being treated as an...
The Scottish Sun front page today reports on the postponement of a trial into an alleged incident of racial abuse after a key prosecution witness said she would only give evidence while wearing the face veil, a decision not known to the court prior to her scheduled court appearance. Dunfermline...
Following on from the story on Sky News yesterday, featuring an interview with the mother of a pupil who was referred under the Prevent policy for uttering the word “eco-terrorism” in a classroom discussion, The Independent reports that a student at the University of East Anglia was questioned...
The Courier, BBC News and STV News all report on a man who allegedly wandered into a mosque in Dundee and began vandalising the place of worship during Friday prayers last week. Witnesses at Taj Dar-e-Madina Mosquedescribed seeing a suspicious-looking man wander into a children’s prayer...
Sky News reports on growing concerns aired about the implementation of the Government’s Prevent programme in schools amid warnings that the strategy is “alienating” Muslim children. The Counter Terrorism and Security Act placed the Prevent duty in schools on a statutory footing as of 1...
