The Gloucestershire Echo reports on an alleged Islamophobic incident involving a teenager of part-Turkish ethnic background who was beaten by golf clubs as his assailants shouted “terrorist” at him. His father who came to his aid was also verbally abused and physically assaulted by the thugs....
BBC News reports on the detrimental impact the attacks in Paris have had on Muslim children living in France, while the Guardian and Sky News cover the backlash experienced by Muslim pupils in the UK. Le Petit Quotidien, a French daily children’s newspaper, has found that the events in...
The Birmingham Mail reports on the sentencing of a man who abused flight attendants on a flight from Dubai to Birmingham Airport on 16 September, last year. Jasbir Bharaj, 46, was found guilty of drunkenness on an aircraft, criminal damage, racially aggravated words and behaviour and common assault...
The Yorkshire Evening Post reports on an event hosted as part of Islamophobia Awareness Month at which a speaker related the case of a man who tried to buy pigs’ heads and trotters from a butcher’s shop in Leeds in order to “desecrate as many mosques as possible”. Kauser Jan, chair of...
The University of Sussex’s student paper The Badger reports on an alleged Islamophobic incident on campus. It is alleged that a group of young males shouted provocative comments about ISIS outside a prayer room used by the university’s Islamic Society on campus on Friday 20 November, a week on...
The South Shields Gazette reports on a possible race hate crime in the South Tyneside area after a car wash covered in racist and anti-Muslim graffiti was destroyed in a suspected arson attack Firefighters were called to a blaze on Wenlock Road in Simonside, South Tyneside, around 1am on the...
BBC News and The Guardian report on the comments by Lord Ashdown on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme this morning in which he accused the Government of failing to do enough to probe the financial support shown for “Salafism and Wahhabism” by Gulf states. Lord Ashdown speaking on the programme...
The Rugby Advertiser reports on a hypnotherapist in Rugby who claimed on Facebook that he would refuse to treat Muslim patients following the terrorist attacks in Paris. The comment, which now been removed from the social media site read: “I’m sorry to say this, but after the Paris atrocities,...
The Sun front page today reveals the perils of misinterpreting polling data to paint a picture of British Muslims that is distinctly (perhaps deliberately?) alarmist. The story in today’s paper claims ‘1 in 5 Brit Muslims’ sympathy for jihadis, EXCLUSIVE: ‘Wake-up call’ after Paris...
Online blog The Great Diversion reports on an alleged Islamophobic incident that occurred on a Tyne and Wear metro train on which two Muslim women travellers were verbally abused and the reaction of the carriage full of passengers who united to counter the abuser. A Facebook post by North East...
