BBC News runs a feature on the first ever World Hijab Day which is marked today (1 February). WHD, the brainchild of New Yorker Nazma Khan, encourages “non-Muslim women (or even Muslim women who do not ordinarily wear one) to don the hijab and experience what it’s like to do so, as part of...
Matthew Norman in his column in The Independent yesterday picked up on the apology by Rupert Murdoch and the acting editor of the Sunday Times, Martin Ivens, for the cartoon published in last week’s edition that sparked accusations of anti-Semitism, as well as comments made by David Ward MP...
BBC News reports on the arrest of a man on suspicion of racially aggravated harassment after he posted abusive messages about Chelsea footballer, Demba Ba, on Facebook. From BBC News: “A 39-year-old man from Gateshead was detained on suspicion of posting the offensive remarks about the former...
BBC Asian Network covers the anti-Muslim bigotry experienced by a family in Bingham, Nottinghamshire in a programme broadcast today. Murad Alam, whose family have suffered the indignity of offensive graffiti, verbal abuse and a cross wrapped in ham being left on their doorstep, speaks to the BBC...
The Guardian reports on the outcome of an investigation by the BBC Editorial Standards Committee (ESC) into a Radio 4 Today programme discussion on the Naqba Day protests in May 2011 after a complaint that presenter John Humphrys had referred to the Golan Heights as being part of Israel. The ESC in...
Peter Oborne in his column in the Daily Telegraph today lambasts the government’s Justice and Security Bill and its obscuring the ability to “shine a light into the dark corners of our secret state”. Commenting on the Bill’s progress through Parliament and a report into its implications for...
The Sun profiles four Muslim converts in today’s paper ahead of the BBC3 programme tonight, Make Me a Muslim. The article states: “Every year, more than 5,000 Brits convert to Islam. “More than half of those who make the switch are white – and 75 per cent are women.” The...
The Sunday Express published a rather disturbing column by guest writer Mark Piggott, author of Out of Office, last week. Piggott’s column is replete with a number of inaccuracies and false correlations, as he takes aim at the speech by Baroness Warsi last week on the “underlying, unfounded...
The EU Observer covers comments by the EU’s Commissioner for Home Affairs, Cecilia Malmstrom, on the threat posed by far right parties to the European project and the European Parliament elections in 2014. EU Observer notes: “Far-right political discourse is feeding hatred throughout the EU and...
The Times (£) front page story today covers the latest intervention by the Conservatives as part of their campaign strategy to “woo Black and Asian voters” urging companies to disclose the ethnic makeup of their workforce. The paper reports: “David Cameron has told the Cabinet to come up...
