Several news outlets including BBC News, ITV News, the Independent, London Evening Standard and local paper, Harlow Star, all report an arson attack on the Harlow Islamic Centre in the early hours of Bank Holiday Monday (Aug 26). Police suspect insulation foam was used to seal all the windows and...
Local paper, Western Morning News, reports on the court appearance of two men who pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit criminal damage and conspiracy to send malicious communications after waging a campaign of hate against mosques and Islamic centres last year. Tobias Ruth, 18, and...
BBC News reports on DVDs containing offensive and Islamophobic content that have been sent to mosques and Islamic centres in London. The Qalb Centre in Walthamstow and An-Noor Mosque in Acton, west London, are two that have admitted receiving the DVDs which were posted around the time of Eid. BBC...
Rupert Murdoch took to twitter to comment on the outgoing chief rabbis’ interview in The Times newspaper (£) on Monday tweeting “societies have to integrate. Muslims find it hardest.” In his last interview before leaving his post as chief rabbi after 22 years, Sacks told The...
Luton and Dunstable Express reports that the English Defence League are planning to march through a Bedfordshire village on Bank Holiday Monday after it emerged that a Muslim charity would be holding a football tournament there. The far-right group, which has a history of violence, is planning to...
The Guardian newspaper publishes an open letter from politicians, community leaders and faith leaders petitioning the home secretary, Theresa May, to ban the EDL from marching through Tower Hamlets on 7 September. The signatories, which include leaders of the Jewish, Hindu, Christian and Islamic ...
Asian Image, BBC News, Sky News and The Huffington Post all report on charges brought against EDL leaders, Stephen Lennon and Kevin Carroll, for obstructing police after allegedly trying to defy a ban on marching to the scene of the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby. Police officers intervened when...
BBC News reports that the MP for Hull North, Diana Johnson, has called for ban on all marches in the city by the English Defence League (EDL) following the arrest of four supporters during a demonstration at the weekend. The shadow home office minister for crime and security said that allowing...
BBC News reports on the jailing of a man in connection with an attack on a mosque in Braintree hours after the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby in May. Geoffery Ryan, 43, admitted affray and two counts of possessing an offensive weapon after turning up at the Al Falah Centre in Braintree with a knife...
BBC News reports that women across Sweden have been posting pictures of themselves wearing headscarves on social media sites to express solidarity with Muslim women after an assault on a veil wearing woman in a Stockholm suburb on Saturday. The Local reports that the woman, who is pregnant,...
