The Guardian features news of an online exhibition, ‘Muslim Women’s Art and Voices’, capturing stories, interviews, experiences and art by Muslim women from across the globe. You can view the exhibition and share content on the site here. A number of artistic contributions on and by Muslim...
ITV News reports on the attendance by members of the English Defence League of a protest outside Radstock Town hall at the weekend after newspaper reports last week claimed that the local council had removed the St George’s flag from flagpoles on civic buildings for fear of ‘offending...
Local paper, Wakefield Express, reports on another alleged incident of anti-Muslim hate crime in the Leeds area with two men arrested at the weekend on “suspicion of criminal damage after a window was smashed at the mosque on Agbrigg Road.” The local paper reports that a further two people, a...
BBC News reports on the arrest of three people on public order offences following a Scottish Defence League protest in Dumfries at the weekend. The SDL, who exploited concerns raised by a local couple over a mosque extension application to promote their protest, were faced with a counter-rally...
BBC News reports mon the election of a UKIP councillor to Rotherham Metropolitan Council. Cavan Vines won in the by-election prompted by the departure of Shaun Wright, who was elected as the PCC for South Yorkshire in last November’s elections. Vines has been already been exposed for his...
The Sunday Telegraph published a letter yesterday signed by over 450 British Muslim scholars and leaders expressing ‘serious misgivings’ over the Coalition’s Marriage Bill legalizing same sex marriage. The Marriage Bill returns to the Report Stage in Parliament today. In the letter, signed by...
Taj Hargey crops up in the Daily Mail today with a guest column titled, ‘The Oxford sex ring and the preachers who teach young Muslim men that white girls are cheap’. Needless to say Hargey is called upon to ‘speak the unspeakable’ – that the media is blinkered by political correctness in...
Local paper, West End Extra, reports on the reinforcement of police patrols in the Edgeware Road area of west London after an incident last week resulted in an alleged case of violent assault. A YouTube video of footage from the sectarian march organized by Anjem Choudary and his acolytes shows a...
There is some coverage in newspapers today on the decision of a local authority in Somerset not to fly the flag of St George on civil buildings. The coverage invariably rehashes the ‘offensive to Muslims’ narrative with the Daily Mail headlining ‘Rural council votes to stop flying flag of St...
The Guardian reports on the Orwell Prize winner, Professor A T Williams, for his book on the brutal death of Baha Mousa at the hands of British soldiers serving in Iraq. Mousa died in September 2003 as a result of injuries sustained from beatings and cruel treatment at the hands of soldiers...
