The London Evening Standard, Guardian and The Independent all report on the arrest of a 25 year old man in connection with an alleged incident of anti-Muslim abuse on a London bus last week. Kashif Samuels was arrested and charged on suspicion of a racially aggravated public order offence after he...
The Burton Mail reports on five arrests made by police at the Britain First demonstration against a “mega mosque” in Burton last weekend. Britain First announced plans to protest against the “mega mosque” on its website in September. The protest on Saturday 17 October saw around 210 far...
There is considerable coverage across the press today about the Government’s new Counter Extremism Strategy which was published yesterday. Vikram Dodd and Alan Travis in the Guardian report the views of Sir Peter Fahy, chief constable of Greater Manchester Police and the police service’s lead...
The Guardian reports on the court appearance yesterday of a woman charged with causing racially or religiously aggravated behaviour intended to cause harassment, alarm or distress after she threatened and abused two Muslim women on a bus in north west London last week. Simone Joseph, 36, pleaded...
The London Evening Standard, Mirror, The Guardian and BBC News all report on the arrest of a woman who was filmed abusing two Muslim women on a London bus calling them “F***ing sandbags” and “F***ing Isis bitches”. The woman, who threatened one of her Muslim victims who was...
The Mail on Sunday yesterday published a remarkable expose on the lobbying influence of the United Arab Emirates over UK domestic policy and public discourse relating to the Muslim Brotherhood. The paper revealed a cache of leaked documents which show how the Gulf Arab state paid a London based...
The Independent reports on another video of Islamophobic abuse on public transport with footage showing a father with a pram verbally abusing an elderly Turkish man. The incident which is said to have taken place in north London, shows the man tell his elderly victim “go back to Turkey”. He...
The Government’s Counter Extremism strategy was published today following reports in the weekend papers about £5 million in funding being put aside to fund groups “to build a national coalition against extremism – in communities and online” and mention of the strategy including measures to...
The Daily Mail reports on a woman who launched a sickening anti-Muslim rant against two Muslim women on a London bus on Tuesday. The woman taunted two Muslim women, one of whom was pregnant, on the bus calling them “Isis b****es”. Approximately five minutes of the incident was filmed by a...
The Shields Gazette and the Chronicle Live report on a number of police forces in the UK that have launched initiatives this week to raise more awareness about hate crimes during National Hate Crime Awareness week. Two days ago the Home Office published its annual report on hate crime in...
