The Star reports on 10 arrests that were made at the English Defence League protest in Rotherham on Saturday. More than 150 members of 20 far-right groups protested against Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council’s attempts to ban far-right marches in the city and impose restrictions on their...
PM Cameron goes two for two today following up Ramadan greetings last month with a speech in Bratislava accusing British Muslims of “quietly condoning” extremism, and Eid greetings issued last Friday followed up with a wide ranging speech in Birmingham that demurs little from the ideas...
The Daily Mirror reports that a pastor has been “slammed” for describing Islam as a “religion of hatred” and comparing homosexuals to paedophiles in one of his Sunday sermons. Pastor Steve Crosthwaite, of Wythall’s Hollywood Christian Life Centre in Birmingham, told his congregation...
The Times yesterday reported on the glowing results by Ofsted on four Muslim schools in Blackburn which were investigated last year amid allegations of “hard-line views or extremism” following the fallout of the so called ‘Trojan horse’ affair in Birmingham. Last July,...
Online news site, This is Wiltshire, reports on an incident of racist graffiti at an underpass in the Gorse Hill area in Swindon, Wiltshire. Residents reported seeing two swastikas and a message reading “Swindon is not for u Muslims” daubed in red paint on the pavement and walls of the...
The Express and Star reports on yet another episode of embarrassment for UKIP after its MEP for the West Midlands region, Bill Etheridge, was found to have been added to a Facebook page called “Islam will not dominate the world”. The page displays on its profile an image of a knight...
The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) has published its 2014 Annual report in which it identifies “a growing trend” in Islamophobia and online hate speech in the last year. The report finds that European countries are witnessing “a growing trend of Islamophobia,”...
The Independent on Saturday published an open letter signed by hundreds of academics warning that the new Prevent guidance published in accordance with the statutory duty introduced in the Counter Terrorism and Security Act will have a “chilling effect” on academic freedom and risks...
Ethnic minorities in Britain were discussed in a debate in the House of Lords last Monday prompted by a question to the Government by Baroness Berridge asking “what assessment they [Government] have made of the contribution of Britain’s ethnic minorities to faith communities and public...
The Croydon Advertiser reports today that three women are due to appear in court for attacking a Muslim woman outside the Al-Khair primary school in Croydon on June 4 this year. The victim was racially abused, punched and her headscarf torn off her head before a passer-by intervened in an...
