The Daily Express picks up on a video posted online displaying the abuse suffered by Muslim West Ham supporters who were filmed performing prayers just before half time during Saturday’s match against Manchester City. The video, which has been posted on a fan’s Facebook page, shows Muslims...
There is widespread coverage in today’s media on the trial of Pavlo Lapshyn, the Ukrainian student charged with the murder of Mohammed Saleem and terrorist offences for bomb attacks in the West Midlands: BBC News, ITV News, Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, Daily Mirror, The Independent, Daily Mail,...
East London Lines reports that the rate of Islamophobic related offences across all London Boroughs have risen in the 12 months leading up to August 2013, with a significant spike occurring immediately after the murder of Lee Rigby, according to figures released by the Metropolitan Police. The...
BBC News reports on an interfaith initiative in Gloucester to build bridges between faith communities after a mosque in the city was targeted in a petrol bomb attack in the weeks following Drummer Lee Rigby’s murder. The Masjid-e-Noor was targeted with a petrol bomb attack in June. Last week,...
BBC News, the Independent and the Daily Mirror all report on the arrest of 52-year-old man from Watford who was filmed launching an expletive-ridden racist attack in which he refers to the Japanese as a “vicious bunch of f****** c****” and threatens to knockout a Somali man who filmed...
The Guardian today reports on the latest legal challenge by Abdel Hakim Belhadj in his case against the Government on his and his then pregnant wife, Fatima’s rendition to Libya and torture. Belhadj, whose alleged rendition came to light in documents found in Libya after the fall of Gaddafi in...
The Daily Telegraph reports on the Prime Minister’s criticisms of the “ludicrous” rumours and “scaremongering” leaflets delivered to homes in his Chipping Norton constituency against plans to open a mosque in the area. The leaflets, which have been produced by a group called the...
The Maidenhead Advertiser reports on the commendation of two Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) for their work in connection with a number of hate crime incidents affecting the mosque in Holmanleaze, Maidenhead. The local paper reports: “PCSOs Matthew Wingrove and Graham Knight...
Dutch politician Geert Wilders and French National Front leader, Marine Le Pen, are in talks to create a pan-European Eurosceptic movement to contest the European Parliament elections The Independent reports. Wilders of the Dutch Freedom Party (PVV), and Le Pen, are to meet next month in an...
A young Muslim woman spoke to SKY Tyne and Wear about her ordeal on the city’s Metro system when a man tried to forcibly remove her niqab. Yasmin Bint Shafiq, 22, was travelling on the Metro when a man tried to pull her face veil from her head. Although fellow passengers on the train carriage...
