The University of Edinburgh’s student newspaper, The Student, reports on an alleged Islamophobic incident on campus in which two students were spat on and called “motherf****** terrorist whores”. The incident was related by a university history lecturer, Dr Talat Ahmed, who alleges that...
The Northamptonshire Telegraph reports on a suspected Islamophobic attack on a hijab-wearing Muslim female in Kettering. The local paper reports that a 13 year old girl was pushed over by a stranger as she walked along Whiteford Drive just before 5pm on Wednesday, November 11. The attack, which...
The Western Gazette reports that a man accused of hurling racist abuse at a Turkish kebab shop worker will stand trial next year. James Richard Turton, 22, appeared before Somerset Magistrates court last week to deny a charge of using racially aggravated threatening, abusive or insulting words or...
The Exeter Express and Echo reports on a police appeal for witnesses in relation to a suspected hate crime in the city. The local paper reports that police are seeking witnesses to an incident on Wednesday afternoon, 21 October, around 4pm outside the Allstars Sports Bar in the city centre where a...
The Herts Advertiser reports on a student from St Albans who has won praise after stepping in and helping a pregnant Muslim woman who was assaulted in a suspected hate crime attack. Jodie Whitford-Stark, 20, a student at Leeds Beckett University, was on a bus on Monday 16 November 2015 in Leeds...
The voluntary sector website, Third Sector, reports on comments made by Sir Stephen Bubb, Chief Executive of the UK charity leaders’ representative body Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations (ACEVO) accusing the Charity Commission of a “disproportionate focus” on Muslim...
BBC News and the website, Wales Online, report on graffiti that has been found daubed on two mosques in the Newport area in Wales. The Jamie Mosque on Stow Hill and the Islamic Society of Wales mosque on Victoria Road, Newport, were both vandalised. The latter had the words “Islam is...
The Essex Chronicle reports on an English Defence League supporter who has been cautioned by Essex Police after she bragged about pushing a bag of dog faeces through a Muslim neighbour’s letterbox on social media. Karen Hastie, 53, was cautioned after she posted a message on Facebook...
The Burnley Express reports on the fine imposed on a man who racially abused the Muslim owner of Domino’s pizza shop in Burnley because he thought there was something wrong with his order. A third party alerted police to the incident, which happened on 31 October, saying that a man in the shop...
The Manchester Evening News reports on a sharp increase in anti-Muslim hate crimes in Greater Manchester in the last 12 months. Figures published by the local newspaper show attacks on Muslims in the Greater Manchester region between November 2014 and October 2015 almost doubled on the previous...
