BBC News reports on the court appearance of a man arrested last month after members of the public alerted Police Scotland to racist and offensive tweets made about the missing boy, Mikaeel Kular. Kular was reported missing from his home in Edinburgh last month before police discovered his body a...
Roy Greenslade in his blog for The Guardian on the media draws attention to a letter sent to the editor of the Daily Mail, Paul Dacre, by a group of Muslims urging him to retract Richard Littlejohn’s atrocious comment piece and apologise “not just to British Muslims, but to your readers and the...
With the second reading of Conservative MP Philip Hollobone’s Private Members’ Bill on ‘Face Coverings (Prohibition)’ on Friday 28 February it is likely the debate on niqab will resurface amidst clamouring for it to be banned in public places. Hollobone, whose bill received its first...
The Leicester Mercury reports on the praise levelled by Leicestershire Police on worshippers at a mosque in Berners Street who apprehended a man as he fled from a shop he had just robbed. Members of the mosque detained the man, who was armed with a knife, until the police arrived on the scene....
The local paper, Windsor Express, returns to the subject of the Muslim Research and Development Foundation’s private hire of Legoland with a story proclaiming that the theme park “has confirmed it has no intention to cancel plans to privately hire the park to a Muslim foundation led by one...
Local paper, The Cambridge News, reports on the sentencing of a gang of young men for their abuse and assault of staff at a Thai restaurant in the city in the days following the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby. The gang of five repeatedly chanted ‘EDL’ at the staff as they beat up two brothers...
The website, Politics Home, publishes a letter sent by Shadow Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, to Home Secretary, Theresa May, concerning the state of proposals on reforming police use of stop and search powers. The reforms, which have sparked some disagreement between the Home Secretary and Number...
Scottish newspaper, The Herald, reports on the court appearance of a man charged with behaving in a threatening and abusive manner after he “unleashed a racist tirade outside a Scottish mosque shortly after soldier Lee Rigby was hacked to death in London”. The paper reports that Grant...
The Daily Express and Daily Star both report on the Channel 5 debate broadcast last night, The Big British Immigration Row. The debate, which followed the far more sensible discussion of the issue on BBC 2 last month, explored views on immigration and showcased the results of a specially...
Richard Littlejohn in his Daily Mail page yesterday wrote an atrocious piece of pure Islamophobic bigotry whilst maligning Sheikh Haitham al-Haddad and the Muslim Research and Development Foundation. Late last week news was reported of the suspension by Legoland Windsor of its Facebook account...
