The Daily Record reports on Britain First’s promotion of “sinister ‘fight clubs’” to train its supporters to ‘fight Muslims on the streets’. It follows the revelation last month that the group has been recruiting former English Defence League members and teaching them boxing and...
After hitting headlines in recent days for the wrong reasons, Muslims in Cardiff are back in the news for acts of charity and altruism. BBC Wales features a video showing how Muslims fasting for Ramadan are doing their bit to help the city’s homeless by distributing food. Watch the video here....
The Darlington and Stockton Times, Evening Gazette, Northern Echo, ITV News and BBC News all report on the English Defence League’s protest in Middlesbrough last Saturday. The EDL march was preceded by a counter-rally early in the afternoon with around 150 anti-racism supporters turning up. The...
The Guardian, Daily Mail, BBC News and The Times report on the ruling by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) yesterday rejecting an appeal by a French Muslim woman, who claimed the niqab ban introduced in France in 2010 violated her human rights. The woman, referred to in court proceedings as...
Local paper, Kent Messenger, reports on another mosque incident involving Britain First, the group behind mosque ‘invasions’. The group visited two mosques in Gillingham, Kent, and “confronted a solitary man on the doorstep of the Jamia Mosque before going inside and having an altercation...
ITV News covers the statement issued by religious leaders, Welsh MPs and members of the Welsh Assembly to ‘reject the words’ and ‘twisted version of Islam’ of militants attempting to recruit British Muslims to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS). The statement,...
The Daily Mail reports on the court appearance of Theodora Sayn-Wittgenstein, a German princess who spoke of ‘killing Muslims’ during a drunken foray at the annual Oktoberfest party at St Andrews in Scotland in March of this year. Sayn-Wittgenstein was accused of telling Muslim first aider,...
BBC News covers the re-opening of the first registered mosque in the UK established by English convert Abdullah Quilliam in Toxteth, Liverpool in 1889. The BBC article explores Quilliam’s work at the Liverpool Muslim Institute which he founded and from where he preached Islam converting...
Richard Norton-Taylor in the Guardian reports that the Chilcot Inquiry report is unlikely to be published this year despite criticism by the Prime Minister that further delays to it were ‘unreasonable’. According to The Guardian, “Whitehall sources suggest the latest delay in the long-awaited...
The Burton Mail and the Derby Telegraph draw attention to a violent assault on an imam in Burton last Thursday. Imam Hafiz Ramzan was on his way home from the local mosque when he was attacked. A Staffordshire Police spokesman confirmed that Imam Ramzan was approached outside his home by a man...
