Local Newcastle paper, The Chronicle, reports on the arrest of six men after a firework was thrown at a mosque and Islamic centre in Whitley Bay. The centre had worshippers in it at the time of the attack on the afternoon of Wednesday 5 March. Police have arrested six men on suspicion of criminal...
The Daily Telegraph on Monday published the weekly column of London Mayor, Boris Johnson, in which he floated the idea of state intervention in Muslim family life to protect children of ‘radicalised’ parents from what he deems ‘child abuse’. The London Mayor opines that “The law should...
The Daily Mail yesterday covered news of the court appearance of a man charged with a religiously aggravated public order offence after he tore up pages of the Qur’an at a football match and mimicked burning them. Middlesbrough fan, Mark Stephenson, 25, was handed pages torn from a copy of the...
A Conservative councillor who was under investigation by the party’s Central Office for posting a comment on Facebook likening a Muslim woman in niqab and her children to ‘black bin bags’, has been expelled from the party for 12 months. The Conservative group at Enfield Borough Council...
BBC News reports on the sentencing of a man who posted a message on Facebook threatening to blow up Edinburgh mosque in the weeks following Lee Rigby’s murder. Derek Phin, 46, was jailed for 12 months after he admitted posting the message on the social media site last June. Police were alerted to...
The Daily Mail, Daily Express and Mirror all report on Windsor’s Legoland’s cancellation of the private hire of the venue by the Muslim Research and Development Foundation. The MRDF had hired the venue for a Muslim Family Day Out but after an avalanche of threats by the far right English...
Al Jazeera carries a feature article on the ever draconian tools used to monitor Muslim communities and intimidate innocent individuals under counter-terrorism measures. Author Simon Hooper uses examples of Muslims who have been visited by Special Branch officers, whose homes have been raided,...
The Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph today both cover the arrest of Moazzam Begg, Outreach Director of civil liberties advocacy group, Cage, and three other men in dawn raids in Birmingham. The DT headline ‘Former Guantanamo detainee Moazzam Begg arrested following compensation payout’ echoes...
There is considerable coverage in the newspapers and by broadcasters on the sentencing yesterday of Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale at the Old Bailey for the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby last May (Daily Mail, Daily Express, Daily Star, The Independent, The Guardian, Daily Telegraph, The...
BBC News covers the sentencing of a man charged with criminal damage to a mosque and assault of two people in Tonna, South Wales. Steven Davies, 22, was charged with religiously aggravated criminal damage and assault for the attack which took place last September. The court heard how Davies smashed...
