Mehdi Hasan in this week’s New Statesman reflects on the local and European election results which have brought far right parties to power across Europe. Hasan mentions various politicians from the mainstream parties whose anti-Muslim conduct or utterings have given succour to the more...
The Times and the Scottish Daily Record both profile the former BNP member and founder of Britain First, Jim Dowson, the ‘religious zealot’ and ‘race hate fanatic’ who is heading Britain First’s ‘Christian crusade’ campaign against mosques. Dowson, who has a criminal record for...
The Guardian, The Independent, Daily Mirror, Sky News and BBC Radio 4’s Today programme all report on new data from the British Social Attitudes Survey which shows that 1 in 3 people in the UK admit to being ‘very’ or ‘a little’ racially prejudiced. The results vary by region,...
As predicted in polls in the run up to the elections, UKIP did indeed triumph in the European elections last week having received the largest share of the national vote at 27.5%. UKIP was closely followed by Labour (25.4%) and the Conservatives (24%). The Liberal Democrats lost all but one of...
The Belfast Telegraph follows up reports of a police investigation into the remarks of a Northern Irish pastor who described Islam as ‘a doctrine spawned in hell’, with news that a fellow evangelical pastor has expressed support for the views as well as adding disparaging comments of his own....
The Star and West Sussex County Times cover the remarks of South Yorkshire Chief Constable, David Crompton, who in an interview with the Yorkshire Post expressed concerns at the cost to the taxpayer of far right protests and the opportunity cost to police forces of policing static demonstrations at...
The East London Advertiser reports on the latest antics of the far right group, Britain First. The group, which has already been referred to the police for its ‘invasion’ of mosques in Bradford and Glasgow and its door stopping of local Muslim councillors, engaged in more provocative behaviour...
The Guardian and The Times this week covered news of the Education Secretary’s mooted plans to introduce a ‘code of conduct’ for madrassahs to regulate practices and curricula in Islamic supplementary schools across the UK. The Guardian quotes a policy official who said the code “…will...
The Independent reveals fresh allegations of MI5’s complicity in the torture of a young Somali man held in an Egyptian prison in an exclusive report this week. Following previous reports by the same paper which has unearthed a number of cases in recent years, the paper covers claims by Ahmed...
ITV News and the Birmingham Mail report on a suspected racially motivated arson attack on a Muslim arts centre in Birmingham. The Ulfah Arts and Media centre which is used by a Muslim women’s group had received anti Muslim hate mail in the weeks preceding the attack, according to the news...
