The Daily Mirror and Daily Mail report on the death of the elderly Muslim man, Muhsin Ahmed, who was brutally assaulted in the early hours of Monday morning, 10 August, as he made his way to the local mosque for the dawn prayers. Muhsin Ahmed, 81, was found by officers and was said to have...
British Transport Police this week released a statistical bulletin on offences committed on Britain’s rail network between 1 April 2014 to 31 March 2015. The BTP compiles crime statistics for England, Wales and Scotland, with the data broken down into geographical regions, or sub-divisions....
In 2013, Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) published a report focusing on the way in which stop and search legislation is being used by police forces in England and Wales. The report found that 27% of stop and search conducted by police forces were “unlawful” and were too...
Kent Online reports on an arson attack on a mosque in Folkestone that was not judged to be a hate crime because the perpetrator was drunk and showed no prior membership of hate groups. Phillip Donovan, 29, tried to put burning tissue paper through the letter box of a mosque on Foord Road South,...
The Daily Mail reports on the presence of a Lord Kitchener style poster at The Moon on the Square pub in Feltham which tells Muslims to “get the f*** out of our countries”. The poster, on display on a noticeboard at a JD Wetherspoon establishment in Feltham, Middlesex, was noticed by a...
The Office for National Statistics earlier this week released data on the most popular baby names in England and Wales in 2014. The data revealed that on the national list Muhammad was the 14th most popular boys’ name in England and Wales (3,588) and the top boys’ name in London (830). But...
The Times’ Andrew Norfolk continues his crusade against the Muslim Brotherhood with several articles (see here, here and here) in Monday’s edition of the paper. In three articles about Amnesty International and its director of faith and human rights, Yasmin Hussein, Norfolk attempts to portray...
The Huddersfield Examiner reports on the sentencing of a man who made racist comments about “giv[ing] the P**** what they deserve” while brandishing a meat cleaver in Dewsbury. Jonathan O’Brian, 33, was swigging from a bottle of cider and walking along a footpath on 16 July with a meat...
The Lancashire Telegraph reports on injuries inflicted on two Muslims who were hit by suspected air rifle pellets as they left a mosque in Nelson. The first incident occurred on Sunday evening around 9.30pm when a 58 year old man reported being hit in the back of the head with what are believed to...
The Evening Express, Evening Times, and BBC News all report on a new campaign launched by Police Scotland to tackle hate crimes by urging victims of hate crime to report incidents to the police. In a month long initiative called “Scotland – No Place for Prejudice”, Police Scotland aims to...
