The Sunday Herald draws attention to a UKIP meeting in Scotland in which a far right Swedish MEP was given a platform. According to a UKIP Scotland circular to party members, Swedish Democrats MEP, Kristina Winberg, addressed a recent meeting in Edinburgh as a “guest speaker”. The Swedish...
ITV News reports that Birmingham City Council has been awarded £100,000 by the National Trading Standards Board to help combat hajj fraud. The funding award follows Trading Standards investigation conducted by the city council with the City of London Police resulting in two people being arrested...
Chichester Observer and the Midhurst and Petworth Observer draw attention to a halal meat controversy at a college in West Sussex prompted by a story published on MailOnline claiming Chicester College was serving “Halal meat without telling students – just because it is cheaper”. The article...
The Guardian yesterday reports on the release of a report by the Media Standards Trust on the coverage of press regulation following the publication of the Leveson Inquiry report into the Culture, Practice and Ethics of the Press. The MST carried out a content analysis study focusing on the volume...
The newspaper front pages on Tuesday focused on another purported atrocity committed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant; the beheading of American journalist, Steven Sotloff. “We should be clear about the root cause of this threat: a poisonous ideology of Islamist extremism that believes...
Civil Society Media, Third Sector and the Jewish Chronicle all report on the claim that Islamic Relief Worldwide has had its donation page removed from the Charities Aid Foundation amid accusations made by the Israeli Defence minister that it has channelled funds to ‘Hamas-controlled...
The voluntary sector publication, Third Sector, and Civil Society Media report on the Charity Commission’s decision to open an inquiry into the Muslim charity Ummah Welfare Foundation (UWF). The UWF is not to be confused with the similar named British Muslim charity, Ummah Welfare Trust. In a...
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Allison Pearson in her column for the Daily Telegraph on Thursday covered the report last week by Professor Alexis Jay on the failings of statutory bodies, police forces and politicians that allowed child sex grooming to persist in Rotherham for 16 years affecting 1,400 young girls. And in the vein...
The International Business Times (IBT) reports on the planned far right protests following the release of the report on child sexual exploitation in Rotherham last week. The Doncaster and Rotherham branch of the English Defence League (EDL) staged a small protest outside Rotherham police station on...
