The Guardian, The Daily Mail, The Daily Telegraph, and BBC News report on Education Secretary Michael Gove’s appearance on BBC1’s Andrew Marr Show on Sunday to discuss ‘Islamist extremism’ in particularly in education. It follows the saga of the so-called “Trojan horse” plot to take...
Local paper, the Liverpool Echo, and online news site, Warrington Worldwide, report on an attack on a mosque in Warrington on Monday night. The papers report that police have launched an investigation into a suspected case of racially aggravated criminal damage after racist abuse was shouted at...
There is a brief article in the Economist this week on the rise of ‘haute’ halal – food joints catering for Britain’s growing affluent Muslim families. After months of alarmist, scaremongering coverage on halal meat and its availability on the UK high street, it’s good to see an article...
The Bolton News covers the disruption at a council meeting earlier in the week to discuss the Astley Bridge mosque proposal. The meeting ended with protestors being escorted from the premises by security and members of the council planning committee made to leave the room as protestors shouted out...
The Daily Mail, ITV News, Express and Star, Southern Daily Echo and Belfast Telegraph all report on the court appearance of a British neo-Nazi who is accused of planning a cyanide attack against non-Aryans in the UK. Mark Colborne, a 36 year old student from Southampton, appeared at Westminster...
The Daily Mail observes The Local’s revelation that Denmark, Norway and Austria are contemplating banning the niqab following the ruling by the European Court of Human Rights earlier this week upholding the niqab ban in France. Bans have already been introduced in Belgium and in some parts of...
Sir Stephen Bubb, head of the charity chief executives body ACEVO, has posted a blog drawing attention to the number of Muslim charities that have been placed under inquiry by the Charities Commission lately saying there is a ‘perception of bias’ and that the regulator is seen to be...
BBC News reports on a fresh appeal for witnesses by Hull police in the case of an imam who was left blind in one eye after a vicious assault last December. Imam Hafiz Aziz Salik was assaulted while driving home with his wife and young daughter when a man flagged down his car, opened the […]
BBC News, The Guardian and local papers Liverpool Echo and Wirral Globe all report on the decision by Merseyside’s Police Crime Commissioner, Jane Kennedy, to provide body cameras to shop workers in a bid to tackle hate crime affecting Asians in the region. PCC Jane Kennedy, has received...
The Evening Standard on Tuesday published a quite outrageous comment piece by Ian Morris, a Classics professor at Stanford University, in which he referred to the early Muslims as ‘fanatics’, said the job of a caliph was ‘as much about fighting other Muslims as Christians or Jews’, and that...
