Wales Online and The Mirror report on a suspected hate crime incident in Cardiff involving an Asian taxi driver who alleges four passengers failed to pay him their £20 fare, one of whom told him “How do I know you’re not from Isis?” Kanak Hirani, 37, says he picked up four passengers in...
The Daily Post and website, New North Wales, report on the sentencing of a businessman who subjected an Asian pizza shop owner to a slew of anti-Muslim comments on New Years’ Day 2015. Kevin Jones, 44, uttered the abuse at Bella Pizza owner Hani Hussain when he stumbled into the shop around...
The Bromsgrove Advertiser reports on the sentencing of two men who brutally assaulted an Asian taxi driver on Boxing Day last year. At Worcester Crown Court this week, Rhys Lakin, 21 and Brandon Newman, 19, were sentenced after pleading guilty to racially aggravated assault and common assault...
Sky News and The Independent both report on the claims by a former Home Office advisor on counter extremism that the Government is misrepresenting the terror threat by playing up the number of people arrested under terrorism legislation but ignoring the actual number charged or convicted of...
The Bristol Post reports that the Muslim passenger at the centre of an alleged incident of Islamophobia involving National Express has come forward to confirm that he believes he was forced off a Bristol to London coach because he is a Muslim. Ibrahim Mohammed Ismail told the Bristol Post that he...
The Guardian reports on another breach of the BBC’s editorial guidelines on accuracy and impartiality by the Radio 4 Today programme team. The BBC’s complaints unit received complaints about a broadcast on 19 October involving presenter, John Humphrys, and Middle East correspondent, Kevin...
The Daily Mail reports on the trial of a pensioner who has been convicted of sending grossly offensive communications after a letter was sent to the headteacher at Manchester Islamic High School for Girls stating things like “Muslims worship Satan in the guise of Allah”. Rose White, 68,...
The coach company, National Express, finds itself in the news again with another accusation of anti-Muslim hostility towards a passenger seeking to travel by coach. The Bristol Post, BBC News and London Evening Standard report that passengers who were witnesses to an incident involving a...
The headteacher of a Bradford school at the centre of a legal dispute arising over its decision to refuse Muslim pupils a room to perform their daily prayers is said to have referred to the Government’s counter radicalisation strategy, Prevent, in a letter to a local MP setting out the...
The local paper, Luton on Sunday, reports that a former Luton Town footballer, Ricky Miller, has been cleared of all charges relating to the alleged assault of a taxi driver in April. Miller was accused of verbally and physically abusing taxi driver, Mohammed Adnan, allegedly calling him a “p***...
