EDL News reports on an alleged religious hate crime incident involving an English Defence League (EDL) supporter in Essex who boasted of posting a bag of dog excrement through a Muslim neighbour’s letterbox on Facebook. Karen Hastie, posted a number of messages on Facebook bragging about the...
The Herald Scotland reports on news from Police Scotland of a sharp increase in religious hate crimes in the wake of the Paris massacre last week. Police Scotland have investigated a number of religiously motivated hate crimes since last Friday, with Deputy Chief Constable, Iain Livingstone,...
The Metro and the International Business Times report on a UKIP candidate who has been condemned for suggesting that mosques should to be closed in the wake of the tragic terrorist attacks in Paris last week. Adrian Howard, who won more than 6,000 votes when he stood to be MP for Macclesfield...
This report contains details of incidents of anti-Muslim hate crimes which have been reported in local and national media in the UK and which form part of our regular monitoring of such incidents for submission to the Office for Security and Co-operation in Europe. The incidents detailed here are...
The Evening Standard reports that a woman has been arrested after posting a message on the Facebook page of her Beauty Salon in Bicester, Oxfordshire, stating she would no longer accept Muslim customers. Thames Valley Police have arrested a 43 year old woman after an alleged “racially abusive”...
The Big News Network relates a suspected hate incident in Swadlincote, South Derbyshire where a Muslim woman was allegedly abused in a Morrisons supermarket on Saturday morning, 14 November. The news site reports that the woman posted details of the incident on Facebook. She posted a message...
The news site News North Wales reports that a former soldier jailed in 2013 for a revenge attack on Rhyl Islamic Centre has been cleared of claims that he threatened to blow up the mosque. John Parkin, 29, was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment and was served an indefinite criminal anti-social...
The Daily Mail and Evening Standard report on a shocking incident on London Underground. Film footage shot at Piccadilly Circus Station appears to show an elderly man throw an hijab-wearing Muslim female into the path of an incoming train. The film footage shot on the Bakerloo line platform at the...
The Lancashire Telegraph reports on the sentencing of two men for racially aggravated public order offences after one of them subjected a Muslim woman who wears a face veil to verbal abuse in the aisles of a Tesco supermarket in Burnley. The local paper carries an interview with the Muslim victim,...
BBC News and Wales Online report on the first in a series of public hearings to be held by the Citizens UK Commission on Islam and Participation in Public Life which seeks to investigate how the Muslim community can engage better in British public life amid reports of increasing levels of...
