The Daily Mirror reports that an English Defence League rally in Tower Hamlets in September cost the local police force over £2 million after 3,000 extra officers had to be drafted in to control just 600 EDL members. The march through East London in September was countered by a Unite Against...
Local newspaper, The Northern Echo, reports that police are “aware” of a planned protest by the English Defence League (EDL) and the North East Infidels (NEI) on Saturday November 9 against plans to establish a Muslim education centre in Shotton Colliery. This will be the second time...
BBC News reports that the Iraq Inquiry cannot proceed to the next phase of its work because key information, including correspondence between Tony Blair and George W Bush, has yet to be released by the Government. The inquiry, which is examining the background to the UK’s involvement in the...
A parents’ group campaigning against plans to build a mosque and community centre on a site next to a school claim many in the Muslim community are also against the scheme, Glasgow’s Evening Times reports. The proposal to build a mosque, community centre, halal butcher and soup kitchen...
The Daily Telegraph and ITV News both report on the exchange in the House of Commons on Monday when home secretary, Theresa May, while making a statement on Mohammed Ahmed Mohamed, dismissed calls to ban the burqa. During the debate in parliament, the home secretary was asked by Sir Gerald...
Richard Littlejohn in his Daily Mail column yesterday took the opportunity to ridicule, insult and patronise niqab and burqa wearing Muslim women by questioning their patriotism and associating their choice of dress with criminal behaviour. With Armistice Day approaching on Sunday, and the antics...
The regional newspaper, Yorkshire Post, reports on the fine issued to the only Muslim member of the English Defence League for abusing a group of Asian men whilst attending a rally for the group in Bradford last October. Appearing at Leeds Magistrates Court, Abdul Rafiq, 43, admitted using...
The Daily Mail, Guardian, Daily Telegraph and London Evening Standard all report on comments made by the former justice secretary, Ken Clarke, on BBC Radio 4’s The World This Week programme, in which he described the face veil as “a kind of bag” that ought not to be worn in...
BBC News reports that four males arrested over an arson attack on an Islamic centre in Harlow, Essex have been released from bail. In August, the front of the Harlow Islamic Centre was left blackened after an arson attack in which insulation foam was used to seal windows and doors before being set...
Kent Online reports on the outcome of the trial of Andrew Grindlay, who was charged with burglary with intent to commit damage and racially or religiously aggravated criminal damage in connection with an attack on a mosque in Gillingham, Kent. Grindlay denied causing damage to the mosque where a...
