Hilary Aked on Huffington Post looks at The Times front page story earlier this week based on a report about ‘radical’ speakers on university campuses released by Student Rights. Aked questions the methodology employed by co-authors, Raheem Kassam and Rupert Sutton, and the patent attempt to...
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...
Press reform campaign group Hacked Off are urging people to write to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, to object to the rival Royal Charter proposed by newspaper groups Associated Newspapers, Express Newspapers, Trinity Mirror, News international and Telegraph Media Group. The...
Local paper, the East London Advertiser, reports that the English Defence League plans to return to the East End with a protest on August 24th, as announced on the far right group’s Facebook page. Mayor of Tower Hamlets, Lutfur Rahman, has stated his intention to lobby the Home Secretary, Theresa...
Paul Vallely in The Independent today covers the Oxford sex grooming trial which concluded yesterday. The trial has raised issues similar to those which surfaced during the trial of nine men convicted of sexual grooming and exploitation of young girls in Rochdale namely, race, religion and sex...
BBC News follows up on the story in the Sunday Mirror last week concerning UKIP councillor for Stourport-on-Severn, Eric Kitson, and anti-Muslim posts found on his Facebook page. Kitson displayed a cartoon of “a Muslim being spit-roasted on a fire fuelled by copies of the Koran” according to...
The Sunday Mirror yesterday covered yet another case of a UKIP member espousing anti-Muslim attitudes. Eric Kitson, the newly elected councillor for Stourport, Worcestershire, displayed a cartoon on his Facebook page of “a Muslim being spit-roasted on a fire fuelled by copies of the Koran”...
The Times (£) today features as its cover story a report by Student Rights on ‘extremist’ speakers on university campuses in the past year and incidents of segregation at Islamic society events. The article references speakers such as Haitham al-Haddad, Hamza Tzortzis, and Abu Usamah...
Local paper, Dumfries and Galloway Standard, reports on the horror expressed by a local couple whose letter of objection to the local council regarding a planning application by a Muslim group has been exploited by the Scottish Defence League. The local paper reports that the SDL “copied a...
