Simon Kuper in the Financial Times brilliantly dissects the hypocrisies and ironies of the “war on terror” and the media’s insatiable demand to cover the next big terrorist scoop giving terrorists the PR they desperately crave and creating for ordinary Muslims living conditions...
Simon Hooper of Al Jazeera contributes a feature article on the potential of the Muslim vote in the coming election and the launch of our election manifesto in Parliament on March 4. Looking at the distribution of the Muslim population across parliamentary constituencies including marginal seats,...
The Guardian and Independent front pages yesterday reported on comments Nigel Farage is said to have made in a documentary fronted by former chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, Trevor Phillips, and due to air on Channel 4 next week about scrapping race discrimination legislation in...
The Liverpool Echo and Daily Mirror report on the challenge by supporters of Liverpool Football Club to a fan who posted a picture of two Muslims praying at Anfield during half time with the hashtag #disgrace. Stephen Dodd posted the picture taken at Liverpool’s match against Blackburn Rovers on...
The Daily Mail reports on the trial of a man who raged about “f****** foreigners” before launching a violent assault on a Turkish shopkeeper in Paddington, west London last October. Hilmi Uludag was manning the till at the shop when Andrew Jefferson, 52, walked in, browsed around the aisles and...
The Kent Messenger reports on the charging of a man with attempted arson with intent to endanger life after lit tissue paper was found in the letterbox of a mosque in Folkestone while the imam was inside. Philip Donovan, 28, has been charged with the offence, which carries a possible life sentence,...
The South Wales Argus reports on another incident involving alleged support by a UKIP prospective parliamentary candidate for the far right English Defence League. The paper reports that the PPC for Monmouth, Gareth Dunn, allegedly linked to a video of the ex-leader and co-founder of the EDL,...
The website, New North Wales, reports on an alleged incident of racially aggravated criminal damage after a fire broke out at a former takeaway shop in Connah’s Quay, Flintshire. A former tandoori takeaway shop, MAA Tandoori Takeaway, was set alight and the letters ‘E’ ‘D’ ‘L’ were...
The Guardian front page today covers the Labour Party’s forthcoming Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) Manifesto amid figures released by the Office for National Statistics and analysed by the House of Commons Library which show that long term unemployment among young people of ethnic...
Letters to the Editor, The Sunday Telegraph, 111 Buckingham Palace Road, London SW1W 0DT. Dear Sir, It is not often that a British Muslim organisation has cause to give thanks to Andrew Gilligan but on this occasion, I am obliged to acknowledge his identifying a minor error in our recently...
