The Maidenhead Advertiser reports on the sentencing of a man in connection with anti-Muslim attacks on a mosque in Holmanleaze. The mosque had its windows smashed in the days following Drummer Lee Rigby’s murder in May. It was later vandalised with the words ‘England till I die’...
Local newspaper, Luton & Dunstable Express, reports that police investigating an attempted arson attack on the Al Hira Educational Centre in Luton have released CCTV footage of a man wanted for questioning. The attempted arson took place in the early hours of Friday 4th October and was...
The BBC’s Inside Out West programme this week investigated anti-Muslim discrimination experienced in employment and housing in Bristol by comparing two men, one Muslim and one non-Muslim, and their relative success in applying for the same jobs and accommodation. As part of the investigation the...
Drawing on the recent controversies sparked by Muslim women’s dress and its adoption in marketing campaigns, journalist Elizabeth Day, in a feature article in Observer magazine last weekend, spoke to Muslim women who criticise the ‘”patronising” western attitude that assumes a woman...
The Herald Scotland reports that residents in East Renfrewshire are campaigning to stop a mosque being built “on the grounds of one of the top performing comprehensive schools in the country”. Muslims in East Renfrewshire have been seeking a suitable site to establish a place of worship for the...
Following the sentencing last Friday of Pavlo Lapshyn for the murder of Birmingham pensioner, Mohammed Saleem, and a mosque bombing campaign in the West Midlands, the Muslim Council of Britain has issued a statement criticising the police for their apparent reluctance to classify the killing as...
The Independent and BBC News report on the court martial of three Royal Marines accused of murdering an Afghan in Helmand province two years ago. The three marines, who cannot be named, are charged with murdering the unknown man while on duty in 2011. Charges against two further marines were...
Channel 4 News this week has broadcast a number of programmes on the niqab as part of a public debate on the subject sparked by the ban imposed and later revoked by Birmingham Metropolitan College a few weeks ago. Last night, C4 News aired a debate between three niqab wearing Muslim women, Shalina...
A Muslim nurse has spoken of her shock at being subjected to a religiously-motivated attack in the grounds of a Newcastle hospital, SKY Tyne and Wear reports. Khadija Mohamed, 22, said the incident happened in May 2013, just two days after the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich south London,...
French far right leader, Marine Le Pen, has set out her plans to unite the European far right with a common manifesto as they gear up to contest the European Parliament elections next year, the EU Observer reports. At a press conference in the Strasbourg yesterday, Le Pen and Franz Obermayr, of the...
