BBC News and The Times report on a reprisal attack on a dentist in January 2015 in retaliation for the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby. Dr Sarandev Bhambra was attacked with a “hammer and 12in machete” in a “brutal and unprovoked attack” by Zack Davies, 26, in a Tesco store in Mold,...
Nuneaton News and the Coventry Telegraph report on a second suspected “racially/religiously aggravated assault” being investigated by police after a man was racially abused and had an egg thrown at him as he returned from attending the mosque for prayers. The 41 year old victim was returning...
The Birmingham Mail reports on the release of CCTV images by West Midlands Police of a man wanted in connection with a spate of vandalism in the King’s Heath area of the city. Islamophobic slogans have been scrawled on bus shelters on several occasions. A report in the local paper earlier this...
Local paper East London Lines reports on an investigation launched by the Metropolitan police after photographs emerged of officers allegedly laughing at a Muslim woman who was assaulted by a group of young women who punched her and pulled off her headscarf. The victim, who was on her way to...
Just as his address to the Australian parliament last November heralded the introduction of legislation further curtailing Muslim civil liberties and reinforcing the official narrative that “ideology” is the cause of extremism and radicalisation, so today’s address by the Prime Minister to...
The Belfast Telegraph reports on an interview with Northern Irish Pastor James McConnell in which he defends his choice of words describing Islam as “heathen”, “satanic” and a “doctrine spawned in hell”. McConnell who is facing a possible six month jail sentence after being charged with...
A BBC investigation has found that new far-right groups are recruiting children and teenagers “encouraging [them] to hate” and be “radicalised online”. BBC News reports that the decline of large far-right groups, such as the English Defence League and the British National Party, has meant...
The Metro, Evening Standard and The Daily Telegraph all report on the arrest of a man in a burqa following a bomb scare in Watford town centre. A specialist Explosive Ordnance Disposal team from Hertfordshire Constabulary was called to Market Street in Watford at approximately 11am yesterday...
The Times follows the Daily Express in publishing an article about religious slaughter and animal welfare focusing solely on halal slaughter. The newspaper, which has already displayed a strong bias in favour of animal welfare groups in their push for the removal of exemptions in law for religious...
Scottish TV station STV News reports on the sentencing of a man who racially abused Humza Yousaf, Member of the Scottish parliament and Minister for Europe and International Development, last February when the MSP was taking part in a charity event. Yousaf, who was selling copies of the Big Issue...
