As the conference season gets underway, Andrew Gilligan in the Sunday Telegraph provides another demonstration of his obsession with undermining British Muslims who legitimately engage in politics and public life. The Prime Minister in his ‘Munich 2’ speech singled out those who...
The Press Association picks up a new report by the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) which argues that the Government’s use of “emotive” language has been “counter-productive” to its outreach work with British Muslims. In a report published by the RUSI on tackling...
The Daily Mail reports on the uploading of video footage showing a man racially abusing a taxi driver in south west London in a row over fare. The male passenger was picked up by a black cab driver in Camberwell New Road and driven towards Fulham when he started becoming abusive towards the driver....
The Times Higher Education Supplement (THES) contains an interesting on the parallels between the Government’s recent announcement about ‘extremist’ speakers on university campuses and a poorly researched study by neo-con think tank, the Henry Jackson Society. THES reports...
Scotland TV covered the results from new research conducted by Dr Nasar Meer which showed that one in three people from BME backgrounds in Scotland has experienced discrimination in the last five years. The research study, conducted by the University of Strathclyde, found that 35% of black and...
The Eastern Daily Press reports on an alleged anti-Muslim hate crime against a female victim in Norwich city centre. A Muslim woman dressed in a hijab and niqab was walking in Orford Place last Friday afternoon, when a man on a mountain bike allegedly shouted offensive comments about her clothing...
Wales Online reports on an ex-soldier who was honoured with a Pride of Britain award for bravery for his role in stopping a race-hate attack in a Tesco store in Mold. Peter Fuller, 44, received the award for stopping neo-Nazi Zack Davies, 26, from killing an Asian dentist with a machete and...
The International Business Times reports on the announcement by Britain First that their leader, Paul Golding, plans to run in the London mayoral election next year. The announcement includes the controversial remark that the far right group’s opponents should be hung as punishment for being...
The Guardian and Independent disclose details of a Muslim university student who was accused of being a “potential terrorist” after he was spotted by a university official reading a textbook for his masters’ degree in terrorism, crime and global security at Staffordshire University....
The Guardian reports on the criticism levelled at Fox News by Ofcom after the channel featured an interview with ‘terrorism expert’ Steve Emerson in which he referred to Birmingham as a “no-go zone” for non-Muslims. The broadcast regulator, in its latest bulletin, outlines the findings from...
