BBC News, ITV News and regional papers, Birmingham Mail and the Express and Star, all report on the screening of a police appeal on BBC Crimewatch to identify 50 suspects wanted in connection with public order offences committed during an English Defence League demonstration in Birmingham last...
BBC News, ITV News and local papers, The Bolton News and Manchester Evening News, report on hate crime incidents reported to Greater Manchester Police last year. According to the BBC, Greater Manchester Police recorded over 3000 incidents of hate crime during the period between April and...
Islamophobia Watch picks up on a story in yesterday’s Daily Star on the scrapping of a school tour featuring former co-founder and leader of the English Defence League, Stephen Lennon. Lennon was due to visit the Duchess Community High School in Northumberland when the visit was cancelled by...
Local paper, the Enfield Independent, reports on the suspension of a local Conservative councillor from the party following an investigation into anti-Muslim comments posted on his Facebook page last year. Cllr Chris Joannides was suspended by the local party association and had the whip...
This is Local London reports on the latest Ofcom Broadcast Bulletin which includes details of the regulators appraisal of complaints relating to the appearance of Anjem Choudary on BBC Newsnight and Channel 4 News on May 23, and ITV Daybreak on May 24th, just days after the murder of Drummer Lee...
The Independent, ITV News, the Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail all report on the Chief Inspector of Constabulary’s claims in an interview with The Times (£) newspaper at the weekend that some minority communities “born under other skies” and “from other cultures” taking law into...
The Daily Mail reports on an incident of anti-Muslim abuse at a Lidl supermarket store in Balsall Heath, Birmingham. A video of the incident can be found on the Mail Online website and shows a checkout assistant allegedly asking a customer if he is a Muslim before telling him, “Go on, you...
Local paper, The Lincolnite, reports on the pending return of the East Anglian Patriots to the city for another anti mosque protest. The far right movement, which last protested in the city in last June over approved plans to convert Boultham Dairy into a mosque and Islamic centre. The EAP are...
The Conservative MP for Enfield North, Nick De Bois, has condemned the distribution of a BNP leaflet in the local borough, the Enfield Advertiser and This is Local London report. The leaflet prompts local residents with the incendiary question “Alarmed by the threat of Islam to your British...
The Daily Telegraph draws attention to the findings of the latest Pew Research Center report on the impingement upon religious beliefs and practices by governments and societies around the world. The report, in its fifth edition, measures restrictions on religious freedoms worldwide. The report...
