With growing fear of the increase in representation of far right parties in the European Parliament following next week’s elections, the likelihood of their forging a coherent political grouping in the assembly is expected to be low. The EU Observer notes a blog by Simon Usherwood on the future...
The Daily Telegraph on Saturday published another story on the legal guidance by the Law Society for training purposes on preparing shari’ah complaint wills. The newspaper reports the comments of Justice Secretary, Chris Grayling, who repeats the oft-mentioned caveats about the primacy of English...
The Guardian G2 yesterday ran a feature on the scope and spread of anti-Muslim output in the print media from scare stories about ‘Islamification’ to insidious bias in the news coverage of criminal cases, foregrounding the religious identity of Muslims as a way of essentialising Islam and...
The Edinburgh Evening News covers Nigel Farage’s latest attempt to extend UKIP’s popularity in the polls in England to north of the border by kicking off the Scottish leg of his European election campaign. The paper reports on UKIP’s reception in Edinburgh with around 300 people...
The row about halal meat rumbles on with more media coverage today. BBC News reports on comments by the Prime Minister, amidst calls for better food labeling of meat produced using non-stunned slaughter methods, in which he said the matter was for the food industry, consumer groups and faith...
Local paper, Oldham Chronicle, reports on the deselection of Jackie Garnett, a UKIP candidate for the Royton South ward on Oldham Council, after last week’s revelations about her pseudonymous anti-Muslim postings on Facebook. Garnett posted a comment calling for “mosques to be knocked down...
Local paper, The Bolton News, reports on a BNP organised protest against a planned mosque in the town’s Farnworth area. The local council last week approved plans for a replacement building on the site of an existing mosque. The local paper reports on the BNP’s anti-mosque demonstration...
The Mail on Sunday reports on UKIP’s selection of Victoria Ayling as its parliamentary candidate for the seat of Great Grimsby in next year’s general election after incumbent Austin Mitchell declared his intention to stand down. Ayling, who fought the seat for the Conservative Party in...
Ava Vidal in Telegraph Blogs shares some of the Islamophobic responses she received to her article last week on the rising number of attacks on Muslim women in the UK. Vidal, whose original article explored the experiences of Muslim women who had been victims of Islamophobic hate crimes, expresses...
