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...
The Guardian covers the publication of research undertaken by the Media Standards Trust into press coverage in the 100 days prior to the publication of the Leveson Inquiry report last November. The study analyses press coverage from 14th July 2011, the day after the Leveson Inquiry was announced,...
The Yorkshire Post reports on the correction of a police statement in relation to an English Defence League protest in Leeds last weekend, confirming that a pig’s head was thrown at the site of the pub that is earmarked for conversion into an Islamic community centre. The local paper notes that...
Local paper, The Comet, reports on the ‘Hate Crime Awareness Day’ launched by Hertfordshire constabulary. The paper notes an anti-Muslim hate crime against a mosque in Stevenage which was defaced with pork and dog faeces earlier this year. “The mosque in Vardon Road was targeted earlier this...
BBC News reports that 18 schools in Luton have had halal meals removed from the school canteen after concerns were raised by local Muslim groups over the certification of ‘halal’ produce. BBC News reports: Luton Borough Council, which has served the meat in schools for 15 years, said it had...
The Daily Mail today features another excerpt from the new book by resident columnist Melanie Phillips. In the paper today Phillips rehearses familiar criticisms of multiculturalism as undermining shared values and slowly decaying principles of the rule of law, parliamentary democracy etc as...
The Dumfries Courier reports on a demonstration planned by Dumfries TUC on May 18th to counter a protest by the Scottish Defence League. According to the local news reports, the SDL will hold a static protest in Dumfries against “a planning application made on behalf of Dumfries Islamic Society...
The Scotsman, Herald Scotland, Daily Record and BBC News have all reported on the arrest of a 14 year old in relation to a racist attack carried out in the Wester Hailes area of Edinburgh last week. Two women in their early 20s were left “traumatised” by the ordeal that saw two children, an 8...
Assistant Comment Editor at The Guardian, Joseph Harker, returns to the subject of ‘racialising’ sex crimes drawing attention to recent cases involving TV personalities, Jimmy Savile and Stuart Hall, and care institutions, in Wales and Jersey – to cite some recent examples. Drawing parallels...
The Pew Research Center has published its latest report titled, The World’s Muslims: Religion, Politics and Society. The report looks at Beliefs about Sharia, religion and politics, morality, women in society, relations among Muslims, interfaith relations, religion, science and popular culture,...
