The Isle of Wight County Press prints a brief news item about the leader of the English Defence League on the Isle of Wight, Carl Phillip Worrall, 47, who is due to appear for sentencing at Isle of Wight Magistrates Court after pleading guilty to one count of harassment without violence and one...
BBC News reports on a 3 year ban imposed on a woman who tore pages from a copy of the Qur’an at a Middlesbrough football match last December. Julie Phillips, 50, tore the pages from the Qur’an and passed them around to other fans to toss like confetti at the match. When approached by a...
The Times front page today draws attention to the latest developments with the Chilcot Inquiry report. The report, which has been delayed for some time now, has been mooted for publication before or after the next election. While some political leaders have spoken in favour of its immediate...
The Guardian, Independent and The Sunday Times all report on the concerns raised over Britain’s possible involvement in the CIA’s rendition and torture programmes following the release last week of the Senate Committee’s report on “enhanced interrogation methods” used by the US spy...
The London Evening Standard front page on Friday covered comments by the UK’s most senior female judge and deputy president of the Supreme Court, Baroness Hale, in which she is said to have shown support for ‘Forc[ing] women to take off veils in court’. The ES front page quotes Baroness...
The local paper, Lancashire Telegraph, reports on the sentencing of a man who shouted abuse at Muslims in Blackburn threatening to “burn down their mosque”. Phillip Townley, who was drunk at the time, was being spoken to by police officers on Darwen Street in Blackburn when he started shouting...
When is the mention of a person’s religious identity ‘genuinely relevant’ to a story? That is the question that arises in relation to the jailing of pensioner, Mohammed Rafiq, 80, after he was found guilty of orchestrating an acid attack on an ex-girlfriend, Vikki Horsman, 19....
The Independent on Sunday draws attention to the stubborn persistence of the falsehood generated one year by the Daily Express when it proclaimed ‘Christmas is banned: it offends Muslims’. In a feature article this week, Cole Moreton looks at the decision by Stoke City Council to...
This is Local London reports on alleged incidents of racially aggravated assault in Walthamstow. Rumours of a group of Polish men hanging around outside mosques and attacking Muslim females were circulating on social media last week. Police have since issued an appeal for information after two...
BBC News, The Guardian and the third sector news site, Civil Society, cover the audit report commissioned by the British Muslim charity, Islamic Relief Worldwide, after it was accused by the Israeli Defence Minister, Moshe Ya’alon, of funnelling funds to ‘Hamas-controlled organisations’,...
