Police are investigating criminal damage at a mosque in a village near Neath, south Wales, after four windows were smashed in the early hours of Saturday morning, the South Wales Evening Post reports. The incident occurred around 1am on Saturday 10 August and was discovered later that morning. Four...
Richard Dawkins finds himself in the news again for tweeting about the paucity of Muslim Nobel prize winners and criticizing the decision by the police and crime commissioner for Northamptonshire, Adam Simmonds, to appoint a ‘faith director’. The prominent atheist questioned whether religious...
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office have replied to our letter concerning the UK’s support for the EU’s lifting of sanctions on Burma despite ongoing allegations of anti-Muslim violence. You can read the reply here.
A man who smashed the window at a mosque in Huntingdon with a chair has been jailed for four weeks, the Hunts Post reports. Gary Abbott, 45, was arrested near Huntingdon Islamic Education and Prayer Centre in Coneygear Road on Thursday, May 30 and charged with racial or religiously aggravated...
Local papers cover a number of initiatives this Ramadan with mosques and community organisations inviting politicians, police officers, interfaith leaders and local communities to join Muslims in the opening of the fast. Rochdale Online reports on an iftar hosted by the Golden mosque in Manchester,...
France 24 reports that a French government agency is calling for the extension of the prohibition on the wearing of ‘conspicuous religious symbols’ in schools to universities on the grounds of “growing tensions in all sectors of university life”. France, which recently banned the...
Tim Stanley on Daily Telegraph blogs picks up on his Twitter spat with English Defence League leader, Stephen Lennon, after drawing attention yesterday to Lennon’s linking to an anti-semitic comment online. Political Scrapbook noted the EDL leader’s link to a tweet complaining about...
The Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Eric Pickles, has written to the Muslim Council of Britain addressing concerns raised about the Government’s response to the growing number of Islamophobic attacks in the UK since the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby in May. The MCB...
A mosque in Tunbridge Wells is planning to hold an open day in an effort to forge links with the wider community after a “damaging” period following the murder of Lee Rigby, the Kent and Sussex Courier reports. The Tunbridge Wells Islamic and Cultural Association has announced plans to...
The Derbyshire Times reports that a foul-mouthed thug who racially abused two Muslim women in Chesterfield town centre has been ordered to pay £1000 compensation. Former Navy serviceman Mark Carr, 41, had been drinking at The British Legion and The Victoria pub before stepping out on to Cavendish...
