Some of the newspapers today lead with the news of Baroness Warsi’s shock resignation from Government over the Coalition’s silence on Israel’s devastating bombardment of Gaza, allegations of its committing war crimes and the huge death toll of Palestinian civilians killed in the last four...
Bolton News draws attention to Lancashire County Council’s failure to completely remove anti-Muslim graffiti from part of the Ironman triathlon bike route in the town. The graffiti, previously reported in the Lancashire Telegraph, Burnley and Pendle Citizen and on Islamophobia Watch, was written...
The Beef and Lamb All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) have published a report following an inquiry into improving animal welfare at the time of slaughter of domestic produce in the UK with particular focus upon religious slaughter. The APPG, with due regard for the sensationalist media reporting...
The Bristol Post, Western Gazette, and online newspaper Bristol 24-7 report on the arrest of a 25 year old man in connection with the abuse of a Muslim woman in Cabot Circus in the city on 21 July. Hasina Khan was abused and spat on by a man who approached her as she made her […]
Sam Burne, in the voluntary sector publication Third Sector offers an analysis of perceptions among Muslim charities of being unfairly targetted by the Charity Commission. Noting the Chair of the Charity Commission William Shawcross’ claims that “Islamist” extremism is the “deadliest...
Further to the report on HSBC’s closure of Ummah Welfare Trust’s bank account in Bradford, BBC News reports on the bank’s closure of other accounts owned by Muslims. Finsbury Park mosque is one of those that has been contacted by the bank with a letter notifying that it will be withdrawing...
Bradford’s local paper the Telegraph and Argus reports on the decision by HSBC to close the bank account of the Bradford office of Muslim charity, Ummah Welfare Trust. UWT have received notice from the bank that its account will be closed in two months’ time though the bank have provided no...
The Irish Independent, Irish Sun, Irish Times, Irish Mirror, Irish Examiner and The Daily Telegraph all report on a series of doctored images posted on Twitter by staff at the Israeli embassy in Dublin that warn of an ‘Islamic invasion’ of Europe and proclaims Israel to be “the last frontier...
The Chester Chronicle reports on the theft of plants from the grounds of the Shah Jalal mosque in Blacon, Cheshire. The plants, which were recently planted by a cross section of the local community as part of a ‘building bridges’ project, were unearthed from the mosque’s grounds just a day...
The Independent picks up on the Sunday Mirror’s interview with Britain First founder Jim Dowson in which he claims to have resigned from the far right group for its “unacceptable and unchristian” mosque ‘invasions. The Sunday Mirror published the interview last week stating Dowson had quit...
