Four men who attacked a mosque in Poole, Dorset have each been jailed for four months Bournemouth’s Daily Echo reports. The men had gone to the Dorset Islamic Cultural Centre on May 23, the day after the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich. Michael Manyweathers, 49, Robert Mullins, 35, Trevor...
We received a reply from the Home Office to our request for information on the fifteen civil society groups supported by the government in “exploit[ing] the potential of the internet” to “rebut terrorist and extremist propaganda and offer alternative views”, as noted in the annual...
The website, EU Observer, reports on the findings of UK-based think tank Counterpoint on the likely outcome of next year’s European elections. Counterpoint, whose report was published yesterday, suggest that the May 2014 European elections will lead to an increase in the number of far-right MEPs...
The Redditch Standard reports on another attack on the Jinnah Road mosque in Redditch this time involving swastikas sprayed on the walls and windows of the mosque. The local paper reports “paint [was] taken from builders’ cabins on the site [and] used to target the walls and at least half a...
Local news portal, Rochdale Online, reports on the support by Greater Manchester Police and Crime Commissioner, Tony Lloyd, for an exclusion order against US-based Islamophobes Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer. Geller and Spencer, who have been invited to address a rally organised by the English...
BBC News reports on an incident of racist abuse at an Asda supermarket store in Worcester and the call by police for two women to come forward. The news report states that an onlooker reported what appeared to be a “vile tirade” of racial abuse directed at two Asian women by “a white woman,...
The Independent yesterday featured a double page spread on Baroness Warsi’s call for the contribution of “forgotten heroes” of the British Empire to be remembered in next year’s First World War commemoration. In a letter to Culture Secretary, Maria Miller, Warsi points to the 1.2 million...
The Lancashire Telegraph today reports that Burnley Council are to send the bill for policing an anti-Islam march in the town to the organisers, the North West Frontline Firm (NWFF). The NWFF, which comprises “affiliates of various Patriotic groups throughout the North West,” organized the...
The Sunday Mirror reported at the weekend that the number of prisoners in UK jails declaring themselves Muslim is now at an all time high. According to figures released under a Freedom of Information request by the Sunday People newspaper, Muslims now number 11,278 of the prison population, a...
The Leicester Mercury reports that a 17-year-old boy has been charged with two counts of racially or religiously aggravated criminal damage after graffiti appeared at the Oadby Islamic Centre in Leicestershire. Leicestershire Police issued a statement saying the graffiti “contained the words...
