The Guardian, BBC and Independent today all report on the publication of a report by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) on stop and search which states that a quarter of all stop and search checks carried out by police officers are ‘unlawful’. The report found that there was...
The Guardian posts an article on the ‘perils of perception’ revealed by an Ipsos Mori poll for the Royal Statistical Society and Kings College, London which explores the degree of difference on perceptions held on the make up society and key policy issues. The poll sheds light on the ‘top ten...
The Redditch Standard last week reported news of open days to be hosted at Redditch mosque to ‘tackle misconceptions of Islam’, after swastikas and racist graffiti were daubed on its walls in an act of religiously aggravated criminal damage. The Jinnah Road mosque, which is still under...
The Scotsman newspaper last week reported on a complaint lodged against Police Scotland after a Muslim taxi driver claimed the police failed to take an incident of racial assault and abuse seriously. A Glasgow taxi driver who suffered a vicious racist attack had to wait 41 days for the police to...
BBC Sport highlights the significant effect Muslim footballers playing for Premier League clubs are having on the culture of English football. The programme, ‘The Muslim Premier League’, which aired yesterday noted that at its inception in 1992 the Premier League had one Muslim player,...
The Express and Star newspaper reports that former UKIP councillor, Eric Kitson, is to face no charges for incitement to religious hatred after West Midlands Crown Prosecution Service deemed that the anti-Muslim comments posted on Facebook did not meet the ‘evidential standard’ needed to secure...
Hate crimes against Muslims in the capital rose from one per day to eight per day in the immediate aftermath of the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby, according to the Metropolitan Police Service Commissioner, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe. Speaking during a web chat Commissioner confirmed that attacks on...
A footballer from Liverpool has pleaded guilty to an offence under the Communications Act after tweeting a comment calling for mosques to be ‘gassed or bombed’ and the beheading of Muslim children, the Liverpool Echo and Daily Mirror report. Shaun Tuck, who plays for Witton Albion, tweeted:...
The French far-right leader Marine Le Pen is expected to face charges on incitement to racial hatred after the European parliament voted to lift her immunity to prosecution, the Guardian reports. Le Pen, an MEP since 2004, had her parliamentary immunity revoked by the European parliament after it...
The Express & Star local newspaper reports on another attack on the Cradley Heath Central Mosque and Islamic Centre. The mosque, whose building was burnt to the ground on Boxing Day in 2009, was vandalized some time yesterday with the mosque’s walls daubed with references to the English...
