Manchester Evening News reports on concerns expressed by Muslims in Rochdale over the rise in ‘unprecedented and unacceptable’ prejudice suffered by the local community since news of the child sex grooming scandals broke. An upsurge in anti-Muslim abuse, in the form of hate mail and offensive...
Press Release: mend / Unite Against Fascism For Attention: News-desk 19 November 2014 Diane Abbott MP, Muslim community groups and NGO’s come together to tackle Islamophobia Tackling Islamophobia: Roundtable panel discussion in Parliament 3-5pm Thursday 20 November 2014 Committee...
The Times front page yesterday did a great job of misrepresenting a new report, ‘Muslim charities: A suspect sector’, with the headline ‘Charities suspected of Muslim extremist links’. The object of the news story is a report that investigates the “validity and the breadth of the...
The Herald Scotland draws attention to a Conservative candidate in Scotland who shared a social media link from the far right group Britain First’s Facebook page. Alastair Redman, who is standing for the Conservative party in the Argyll and Bute seat in the Westminster parliament, shared a post...
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The Blackpool Gazette front page at the weekend reported on the trial of four men charged with religiously aggravated intentional harassment, alarm or distress for their roles in a hate crime incident last year. Thomas Ashton, 21, Andrew Warner, 30, Travis Crabtree, 25, and Steven White, 28, all...
The local paper, Portsmouth News, reports on yet another hate incident at the city’s Jami mosque. Vandals scrawled a ‘vulgar word’ in purple letters on the walls of the mosque which have only recently been re-painted, according to the local news report. The mosque has been the scene of a...
The Daily Record and Herald Scotland report on Glasgow City Council’s banning of the Scottish Defence League’s planned parade in the city in fear of a “clear risk to the public and to the peaceful life of the community”. The SDL planned to hold the march to publicise claims of child sexual...
The Daily Telegraph and The Times newspapers on Friday put proposals outlined in the PM’s speech to the Australian parliament, to temporarily confiscate passports of Britons returning from fighting in conflicts overseas, on the front page (see also Independent, Guardian, BBC News and Sky News)...
The Bolton News and Asian Image draw attention to the arrests of three men who have been charged with racially aggravated malicious communications for posting offensive messages on the ‘Stop The Astley Bridge Mosque’ Facebook page. Leon Richmond, 18, and Darren Hubble, 23, are expected to...
