This is Cheshire and the Warrington Guardian report on the arrest of a 20 year old man in connection with an attack on a mosque in Warrington town centre two months ago. The arrest follows the release of CCTV images after the mosque was vandalised on 7 July. The image shows a man about to...
The Western Daily Press, Bristol Post, and the independent news site Small World News Service report on a former BBC presenter’s rant on Facebook about ‘P*kis’ in Rotherham. Sam Mason, a former BBC Radio Bristol presenter, launched a racist tirade about the sex abuse scandal in Rotherham on...
The South Wales Argus draws attention to the use of the term “muzzy” in a Facebook post by a councillor in Torfaen suggesting violence is an endemic feature of Islam. Mike Harris, an Independent councillor elected in 2012 to represent the Pontypool ward on Torfaen Borough council, posted the...
Quite a few of the newspapers place the report by Professor Alexis Jay into child sex grooming gangs in Rotherham on the front page. The report, which covers a range of failings by statutory agencies, from child services and local council officials to police officers, is a serious indictment of the...
The London Evening Standard and the Times reports that the All Party Parliamentary Group on Beef and Lamb is to trial a new slaughter technique ‘in experiments to satisfy halal meat consumers’. The Times reports that the APPG “want to persuade Muslims that slaughter techniques in British...
Mayor of London, Boris Johnson in his column for the Daily Telegraph on Monday contributed to the reactionary bout of counter-terrorism policy proposals that have been circulating in the aftermath of the beheading of James Foley by a young man suspected to be a British Muslim. The Independent...
ITV News features a short clip on the impact of world events on hate crime in Wales. Reporter Owain Phillips talks to Sheikh Zane Abdo who tells him about the casual abuse directed at Muslims by drivers and passersby who hurl racial abuse at Muslims. Sheikh Abdo notes that many engaging in such...
The Guardian reports on an investigation launched by the Advertising Standards Agency into Britain First’s use of royal symbols following a complaint. The far right group’s website features an online shop where supporters can purchase a range of products including an embroidered baseball cap, a...
Matthew Parris in his column for The Times on Saturday cautioned against the rampant anti- Muslim hostility evident in comments posted to online articles in the mainstream press or reputable blogs. Following the example of Peter Oborne’s ‘It Shouldn’t Happen to a Muslim’ documentary, Parris...
Douglas Murray in a guest column for the Daily Express on Thursday attempts to transmute popular outrage at Israel’s disproportionate assault on Gaza, in which nearly 2,000 Palestinian civilians have been murdered, into a rallying cry in support of Israel’s military campaign by arguing that she...
