The Daily Star yesterday covered the story in Tuesday’s Times with the headline ‘Brits groomed by the ‘music haters’’. The story repeats content published in The Times yesterday, about British Muslims ‘flocking to join Salafi’ (sic), a sect who are ‘on course to control...
The Times front page story yesterday claimed British Muslims are flocking to a ‘jihadists’ hardline sect’ and that ‘half of [British] mosques will be run by Islamists hostile to western values’. The cover story repeats claims made in a recently published book by Innes Bowen about the...
STV TV reports on the sentencing of two of the three people involved in a hate crime incident at Edinburgh mosque in January 2013. Chelsea Lambie, 18, and Douglas Cruikshank, 38, denied charges of racially aggravated threatening behaviour after strips of bacon were thrown into the mosque and...
Owen Jones in his Guardian column yesterday reflected on the death of Gerry Conlon, one of the Guildford Four, and compared the anti-Irish prejudice of the past that made miscarriages of justice possible with present day Islamophobia asking whether the threat posed to Muslim civil liberties by...
The Sunday Herald covers news of Glasgow Central Mosque being granted approval by Glasgow City Council to broadcast the adhan, the daily call to prayer, every evening during the Commonwealth Games which this year coincides with the month of Ramadan. The mosque, a short distance away from the...
The Independent, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph and The Daily Mail report on the concerns raised following Education Secretary Michael Gove’s decision to introduce new rules on ‘’British values’ to be taught in schools following the fallout from the alleged ‘Trojan Horse’ plot in...
Channel 4 last week broadcast a news feature on far right social movement and political party, Britain First. The group which fielded candidates in Scotland in the recent European parliamentary elections and carried out mosque ‘invasions’ in the weeks running up to polling day, has been dubbed...
Peter Oborne in the Sunday Telegraph reviews Arun Kundnani’s ‘The Muslims Are Coming!’ and Innes Bowen’s ‘Medina in Birmingham, Najaf in Brent: Inside British Islam’. You can read the review here.
The Times, Financial Times, The Guardian, The Independent, BBC News, Channel 4, and Sky News all report on the release of the British Social Attitudes survey on social attitudes relating to Britishness, national identity and immigration. The survey findings on social attitudes are likely to have...
The Daily Mail, The Guardian and the Birmingham Mail all report on the testimony of the Assistant Head of Park View school, Lee Donaghy, to the Home Affairs select committee in which he lambasts the media’s coverage of the ‘Trojan Horse hoax’ and the portrayal of certain schools in Birmingham...
