The Independent exposes more evidence of UKIP members making Islamophobic or controversial comments with Keith Fraser, the UKIP candidate for Hackney North & Stoke Newington, stating that radicalised young Muslims should be put on free flights to Syria and Iraq. Describing ISIS sympathisers as...
The academic director of polling agency YouGov, Joel Faulkner Rogers, presents some interesting data from the company’s polling of public attitudes on Islam’s compatibility with British values. Reflecting on the Home Secretary’s recent speech detailing the new approach the Conservatives will...
The Guardian and Independent both report on the latest scandal involving Katie Hopkins as she wades into yet another accusation of inciting racial hatred. In a twitter exchange with the Labour MP for Rochdale, Simon Danczuk, who marked Pakistan National Day by raising the Pakistani flag in his...
BBC News reports on the outcome of the trial of Christian preacher, Michael Overd, who was facing two charges of using threatening and abusive words, and a third of causing racially or religiously aggravated harassment, alarm or distress. BBC News reports that Overd was convicted of one charge of...
The voluntary sector publications Third Sector and Civil Society, return to the subject of the Charity Commissionand its approach to regulating British Muslim charities. Third Sector covers the defence offered by William Shawcross, the Charity Commission chairman, of its actions over the charities...
The Cambridge News reports on a hate crime incident at one of the city’s parks on a Saturday afternoon in which a Muslim mother and her young daughter were subjected to vile racist abuse by a gang of white youngsters. Samrah Sehar was playing with her one year old daughter at a park on Mill...
The Glasgow Evening Times reports on a hate crime incident in the Muslim section of a cemetery in East Renfrewshire, Scotland. A sign leading to the Muslim section of Cathcart cemetery in East Renfrewshire was plastered with far right symbols. The words ‘Britain First’, ‘NF’ and ‘BNP’...
The Islington Gazette reports on the criminal trial of a man who attacked a Muslim shopkeeper at his store in Holloway Road, north London, with two knives telling him “I’d love to kill a Muslim”. Drug addict, Michael O’Leary, 35, attempted to rob a different store in Camden earlier in the...
