The Daily Mirror and Gazette Live report on the sentencing of two women who accosted a Muslim family on holiday in Blackpool with rants about ‘banning the burqa’. Imtiaz Hussain, his wife Barbara and their three daughters were on a week long holiday in Blackpool when the incident occurred on...
Fox News is in the news again this week and not for silly remarks about Birmingham being “totally Muslim” by a guest, Steven Emerson, dubbed a “complete idiot” by the Prime Minister. This time the US based news channel makes headlines for comments by UKIP leader, Nigel Farage, about...
There is some sensible commentary in the press that is deserving of a wider readership to counter-balance the hyperbole and bias promoted elsewhere in the press. Associate Professor Anne Aly in a comment piece available on the Guardian’s Comment is Free draws on her research into terrorism to...
The Independent today reveals that UKIP MEP for the London region, Gerard Batten, has repeated his call for Muslims to sign the “Proposed Charter of Muslim Understanding” explicitly disavowing violence committed in the name of Islam. Batten wrote the foreword to the Charter which was initially...
The Guardian reports on the suspension of a football scout for Manchester United, Torben Aakjaer, following an investigation into anti-Muslim and racist Facebook posts found on his social media page. The Guardian reveals that the offensive posts includes “a photograph of six pigs with a caption:...
A bizarre story that is in the papers today relates to a discussion on the BBC’s flagship programme, Today on Radio 4, in which presenter Jim Naughtie revealed during a discussion about free speech, that publisher Oxford University Press had advised authors that things which ought to be avoided...
The cold blooded murder of the editor, cartoonists and staff at Charlie Hebdo’s offices in Paris last week and the siege at a kosher supermarket in the city in which four French Jews were killed, has predictably unleashed a barrage of polemical commentary reinforcing the ‘clash of...
The Sunday Telegraph reports on the loss of public funding by the Muslim Charities Forum claiming allegations uncovered by the paper about its “links to a group alleged to fund Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood political movement” had led to a “crackdown on Islamist...
The Sunday Telegraph reports on moves by a group of MPs to push for the publication of the much-delayed and eagerly awaited Chilcot Inquiry report into the UK’s involvement in the US-led war in Iraq in a “matter of weeks”. The report, which last week was the subject of a Lords...
The local paper, Cambridge News, reports on the trial of a former marine and ex-UKIP candidate in the South Cambridgeshire District Council elections last May, who is on trial for sending “grossly offensive” communications to a mosque in Cambridge and posting anti-Muslim slurs on his Facebook...
