The Daily Telegraph reports that 186 Muslim prisoners are to sue the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) after pork was discovered in a number of products mistakenly labelled as ‘halal’. The prisoners have launched their legal cases in an attempt to win compensation over the error which occurred...
Police are hunting up to nine white men who racially abused and attacked three Asian men in Glasgow city centre at the weekend, BBC News reports. The three Asian men, aged 30, 33 and 47, were walking along St Vincent Street, near Buchanan Street junction, in the early hours of Sunday morning when...
A man who allegedly planned to make homemade bombs packed with nails and ball bearings and detonate them in two Liverpool mosques is to face a terrorism charge, the Daily Mail, BBC News and Wirral Globe report. Ian Forman, 41, of Birkenhead has been charged with engaging in conduct in the...
Muslim businessmen in the Somerset town of Weston-Super-Mare speak to local paper, The Weston Mercury, about a spate of racist and anti-Muslim incidents in the area. The latest incident involved an alleged act of arson after a fire was started near the premises of a Turkish run takeaway shop in...
The Independent newspaper today publishes two letters from readers on the niqab debate. One letter alludes to the BBC Radio 4 interview last week in which 14 year old Anisha Patel spoke of her horror when a man attempted to forcibly remove her niqab: Patricia Baxter (Letters, 26 September) puts...
A woman who was filmed telling an Asian man on the Tube to “F*** off back to your own country if your country is so good” has been found not guilty of racial harassment the Daily Mail reports. Accountant Claire Moloney, 40, was filmed screaming at the unidentified Asian man in a hate filled...
Matthew Goodwin, author of Angry White Men, comments on the BBC Newsbeat headline from earlier in the week, ‘a quarter of young British people do not trust Muslims’, in The Guardian newspaper today. Goodwin believes the BBC feature article on the commissioned ComRes poll gave the misleading...
BBC Radio 1’s Newsbeat programme covers the results of a BBC commissioned ComRes survey on Young People and Prejudice. The survey, which questioned 1,001 youngsters aged 18-24, looks at attitudes towards people of different ethnic, religious and national backgrounds. It also explores levels...
A 14-year-old British Muslim teenager has spoken of her horror when a man tried to pull off her niqab in the street, in an interview with BBC Radio 4 World at One programme. The teenager describes how a man approached her and tried to rip off her niqab. Although she has been verbally abused...
Local paper, the Plymouth Herald, reports on a headscarf wearing Muslim woman who was racially abused twice in the same week by a ‘racist yob’. The woman, who is white British, was told to get back to her own country twice within the space of a few days by a racist thug. Police said it...
