Ingrid Storm, a researcher at Manchester University’s Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity, contributes a comment piece to Democratic Audit on why, when racial prejudice is generally in decline, is prejudice against Muslims bucking the trend? Storm looks at data from the British Social Attitudes...
Only Richard Littlejohn could pour scorn on the two British Muslims who prayed at Anfield during half time and whose prayer break was caught by another fan who tweeted the incident calling it a #DISGRACE. Littlejohn adds his own prejudice to the mix asking why, if the Muslims knew the football...
The Daily Express on Saturday returned to a topic that has regularly appeared on the front page of the newspaper, the niqab (face veil). Covering the speech by the president of the Supreme Court, Lord Neuberger, to the Criminal Justice Alliance on 10 April, the Daily Express, along with The...
The Independent today features further research by Dr Nabil Khattab of Bristol University on the high incidence of Muslim unemployment in the UK and the possible causes. Dr Khattab’s latest research, presented at the British Sociological Association’s annual conference in Glasgow, investigates...
Another day, another UKIP scandal it would seem. Graham Whitehead, the party’s candidate for the ward of Failsworth in the Oldham Council local elections next month is being investigated by the party after Islamophobic and racist posts put on his social media page were revealed. Whitehead is...
Carey Lodge in Christian Today reports on the release of crime statistics by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) which reveals the rate of increase in Islamophobic offences in the capital from April 2014 to March 2015. The MPS figures show that racial or religious hate crimes increased by 25.7...
The Daily Mail and Evening Standard report on the latest developments concerning the case involving a Liverpool FC fan who posted a picture of Muslims praying in the stands at Anfield on twitter and labelled it a “disgrace”. Stephen Dodd posted the photo of Asif Bodi and Abubakar Bula whilst...
The Daily Mirror and Express and Star have the latest on UKIP candidates behaving badly. In the week that the Jewish Chronicle publishes an interview with UKIP party leader, Nigel Farage, in which he makes a number of prejudicial comments against Muslims, his party colleagues are found spouting...
The York Press reports on the set up of a 24 hour hate crime hotline in North Yorkshire providing support to victims in the hope of improving hate crime reporting. Hate crimes in the North Yorkshire region rose by 21% on the previous year with 387 hate crime offences recorded in 2013/2014 across...
The Jewish Chronicle this week features an interview with UKIP party leader, Nigel Farage, following on from last week’s interview with the new party candidate for Hendon, Dr Raymond Shamash. Shamash replaced the former candidate for Hendon, Jeremy Zeid, who was forced to step down after tweeting...
