The Daily Mail and Metro report on a Muslim mother who has decided to protest her dismay at a primary school that has fed her children non-halal meals ‘a good few times’ by sticking ‘halal only’ badges to her childrens’ school uniforms. Henna Khan told the paper, “I really didn’t...
The Blackpool Gazette reports on the release of CCTV footage by Blackpool Police of a man wanted in connection with a religiously aggravated criminal damage incident at a local mosque. CCTV footage issued by the police shows a group of men entering the mosque grounds through a gate. One of the men...
BBC News reports on the charges brought against a man who assaulted a Muslim woman in Bristol city centre. Jack Hughes, 26, was arrested in August over the incident, which occurred in July, and will face charges of racially or religiously aggravated common assault when he appears before Bristol...
BBC News, the London Evening Standard and local paper, Camden New Journal all report on the decision by Camden School for Girls to deny a Muslim girl the right to attend school on account of her wearing niqab. The girl, who studied for five years at the school returned to study for her ‘A’...
BBC News and Manchester Evening News both report on the arrest of a man in connection with the arson attack on the Newton Heath Islamic Centre a couple of weeks ago. The centre’s CCTV cameras were ripped out of the wall and broken in the attack and its minibus later torched. The minibus had...
The Daily Record, the Daily Mirror and the Morning Star report on the fine imposed upon a man who subjected two Asian men to a racist tirade on public transport in Glasgow in March 2013. Footage of the incident showed Stuart McIlreavy, 49, staring threateningly at two men before approaching them...
BBC Newsbeat’s front page last week featured an interview with a youth worker from Rotherham who claimed there had been an increase in anti-Muslim hate crime in the town following recent events. Muhbeen Hussain, founder of the Rotherham Muslim Youth group, said “I have seen Muslim hate crime...
The Centre for Research in Race and Education at the University of Birmingham will be holding a seminar examining the report by Peter Clarke, the former head of the counter-terrorism division at the Metropolitan Police Service, into the so called ‘Trojan horse’ affair. A report by...
The Yorkshire Post reports on comments found posted on South Yorkshire Police force’s Facebook page which readers have criticised as racist, offensive, and appearing to place the blame for the child sex abuse in Rotherham on Muslims. South Yorkshire Police posted a thank you message on its...
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