The Darlington and Stockton Times reports that a hoax story popular on the internet and featuring an alleged baby beating in Teesside is to be investigated by police after claims that it appears to be racially motivated. Cleveland Police have confirmed that there is no truth in the report – which...
Witton Albion striker, Shaun Tuck, who was sentenced to 12 weeks in prison in July for a tweet stating “All the mosques in England should be gassed or bombed,” and that Muslim children should be “beheaded”, has written to the club’s supporters apologising for his comments, the Northwich...
The Observer yesterday reported on the security measures British mosques are implementing following a number of serious hate crime incidents around the country since the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby in May. The paper features the Al Falah Centre in Braintree, Essex, which was attacked in the...
The mayor of Tower Hamlets, Lutfur Rahman, has asserted his intention to take legal action in a bid to ban the English Defence League from marching through the east London Borough this coming Saturday, 7 September, the East London Advertiser reports. Mayor Rahman, who has campaigned in recent weeks...
The South Shields Gazette reports on the arrest of seven people during an English Defence League march in South Shields at the weekend. Around 350 members of far-right groups, including the EDL and the North East Infidels, attending the protest claims they were there to “protect the inalienable...
The Runnymede Trust has published a new report entitled The New Muslims. The report notes the Census 2011 results on the number of British Muslims and finds the there has been a decrease in Muslim segregation. An example includes the through the spreading out from the biggest Muslim concentrationsm...
Restoration work has begun on a cemetery in Woking built for Muslim soldiers killed in combat during the two world wars and is expected to be completed in time for the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of WWI (4 August 2014), BBC News reports. The Muslim Burial Ground in Horsell, near Woking, once...
BBC News reports on a ruling expected from the European Court of Human Rights after a Muslim woman stopped and questioned under Schedule 7 took her case to the court citing detention “without reasonable suspicion” a breach of her human rights. Sylvie Beghal, a French national living in...
The Harlow Star reports on the release of CCTV images of three men suspected of involvement in the arson attack on Harlow Islamic Centre on Bank Holiday Monday. Essex Police have released the images of hooded men seen walking in front of the Centre, one of them “holding a drill while another can...
The Grimsby Telegraph reports on the court appearance of two individuals charged with racially aggravated assault and using racially aggravated threatening words or behaviour after the pair attacked a Brazilian man outside a takeaway for intervening as they racially abused the staff inside....
