The Daily Telegraph on Friday covered the report, An analysis of the provision for RE in Primary Schools, published by the National Association of Teachers of Religious Education, (NATRE). The report, based on an online survey conducted by NATRE over the spring term, found that primary school...
BBC News, The Sun, Guardian and Independent newspapers cover the discovery of a ‘suspicious package’ outside a Walsall mosque on Saturday evening, later confirmed to be a home-made bomb. Police were called in by committee members of the Aisha mosque in Caldmore, Walsall, after the...
BBC News reports that chairman of the Home Affairs select committee, Keith Vaz MP, has written to the Home Secretary, Theresa May, seeking an exclusion order against two prominent American Islamophobes, Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer. Geller and Spencer have been invited by the English Defence...
The Liverpool Echo reports that footballer, Shaun Tuck, has been charged with offence under Section 127 of the Communications Act 2003 after he tweeted comments calling for all mosques in England to be ‘bombed or gassed out’ or ‘stormed by 50 lads machetes, swords the lot’. Tuck is one of...
Regional paper, the Yorkshire Post, reports on a motion to be debated by Hull Council tomorrow to ban English Defence League demonstrations in the region. Councillor Colin Inglis, a former police authority chairman, stated: “Council notes the so-called ‘English Defence League’ march along...
The website, EU Observer, covers the report published by the Fundamental Rights Agency on anti-Muslim hate crimes across Europe in 2012 as part of the agency’s annual report. The website notes that “Finland, France, and Sweden registered an increase in attacks against Muslims between 2010 and...
The Daily Telegraph website publishes a worthy response by Shadow Justice Secretary and Lord Chancellor, Sadiq Khan MP, to the article authored by Charles Moore in Saturday’s paper. Moore, in an article reflecting on the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich in May argued that David Cameron...
Local paper, the Gloucester Citizen, reports that two men have appeared in court charged with conspiracy to commit arson after being arrested in connection with a petrol bomb attack on Masjid-e-Noor in Gloucester. The local paper notes that “Clive Michael Ceronne, 37 and Ashley Henry Juggins, 20...
The Daily Express and Daily Telegraph both cover the decision of the European Parliament’s legal committee to recommend lifting parliamentary immunity for Marine Le Pen paving the way for her potential prosecution for inciting religious hatred. Le Pen at a rally in France in December 2010 likened...
The Braintree Chronicle reports on the latest attempt by Muslims to reach out to their local communities in the aftermath of the murder of drummer Lee Rigby. The Al-Falah Islamic Centre in Braintree, which was targeted on the night of the murder of Lee Rigby, is to host a fun day inviting locals to...
