The Guardian, Daily Mail and Sky News all report on the forced evacuation of pupils at the Darul Uloom in Chislehurst, Kent, after a part of the premises was set alight by intruders. According to The Observer, Saiyed Mahmood, an adviser to the school, explained that “The academic department...
The Bucks Herald reports on a number of racist incidents which have occurred in Aylesbury in retaliation to the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich two weeks ago. The paper reports that a 31 year old man has been arrested in relation to a string of racist incidents. According to the paper, the...
BBC News reports on the guilty plea entered by Emma West after she was charged with two counts of racially-aggravated public order offences having been filmed racially abusing passengers on a tram in Croydon in November 2011. West, who had earlier pleaded not guilty, was arrested and charged after...
The Scotsman newspaper reports on the withdrawal of pupils from a school trip to Edinburgh mosque after some parents voiced concerns over “hate being preached in mosques”. Around a third of pupils, 28 out of 90, were withdrawn by their parents from the school trip for various reasons, such...
The Daily Mail reports on the release of data on the 2011 Census by academics at Manchester University studying changing attitudes to national, religious and ethnic identity. According to analysis conducted by the Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity (CDoE), Muslims are more likely to identify with a...
The Yorkshire Evening Post reports on a hate crime incident in Leeds where the walls of a former pub due to be converted into a mosque and community centre were daubed with racist graffiti. “Unknown vandals spray painted Islamophobic remarks and racist jibes on the walls and windows of the...
The Independent reports on a suspected revenge arson attack on a mosque and community centre in Muswell Hill, north London, yesterday. Police and fire services were called to the building in north London, which houses the Al-Rahma Islamic Centre, in the early hours of Wednesday morning. The...
There is plenty of coverage in the news today (see Daily Mail, Independent, Daily Telegraph, The Mirror, Yorkshire Post, Herald Scotland, Evening Standard, BBC News and ITV News) on the Prime Minster’s statement in the House of Commons yesterday on the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby and the new...
BBC News reports on a charge of racial or religiously aggravated criminal damage brought against a 45 year old man after windows at a mosque in Huntington, Cambridge were smashed last Thursday. BBC News notes that Cambridgeshire police are “working with the mosque and the local community to...
Local paper, Plymouth Herald, reports that two men have been released on bail after being arrested on suspicion of racially aggravated harassment of a man of ‘Middle Eastern appearance’ in Plymouth Hoe last Sunday. The paper reports on the police investigation into the alleged incident in which...
