BBC News reports on two teenagers who have been charged with “five offences of racially aggravated criminal damage and four offences of causing criminal damage” following investigations into racist graffiti sprayed onto properties in Woking, Surrey last November. Surrey Police reports...
Three of six men convicted of racially or religiously aggravated public disorder have had their convictions quashed and fines and legal costs slashed according to a report in local Teesside paper, the Evening Gazette. The six men, all linked to the English Defence League, were arrested for shouting...
The Birmingham Mail covers a protest in the city on Saturday organised by an offshoot of the English Defence League, the English Volunteer Force. Around 50 protestors from the EVF gathered in the city’s Centenary Square, while a similar number of counter demonstrators from Unite Against...
The Scottish Sun, the best-selling daily’s Scotland edition, published a feature article yesterday on Scottish Muslim convert Alana Blockley (pictured) and her journey into Islam. Blockley, a Glaswegian, is one of five Muslim converts who will feature in a BBC3 programme to be broadcast on...
This report contains details of incidents of anti-Muslim hate crimes which have been reported in local and national media in the UK and which form part of our regular monitoring of such incidents for submission to the Office for Security and Co-operation in Europe. The incidents detailed here are...
BBC News covers the outcomes of two trials involving men who are alleged to have made hoax bomb threats. The first, involving Timothy Bingham, who made hoax bomb threats against mosques in Southampton, has ended with Bingham handed a two year suspended sentence. BBC News reports: “A man who made...
Shadow Justice Secretary, Sadiq Khan MP, in an article for Politics Home today sets out why he believes the voting age should be lowered to 16. He writes: “Think of some of the things that a 16 year old is able to do of their own free will, like marry or enter into a civil […]
The Independent and The Times today both trail the speech to be delivered this evening by Baroness Sayeeda Warsi in which she is expected to say that an “underlying, unfounded mistrust” is fuelling anti-Muslim hatred. Lady Warsi is expected to reveal results from a specially commissioned YouGov...
The Times (£) today publishes a column by Lord Paddy Ashdown, former leader of the Liberal Democrats, in which he argues that the conflicts in Mali and Algeria are not “a fight against ‘us’” but a fight of “Islam vs Islam”. Lord Ashdown refers to the way in which the War on Terror has...
BBC News reports on the sentencing of a man to three months in prison for racially aggravated harassment after he dumped a pig’s head outside a mosque in Newbury, Berkshire last October. From the BBC: “Rory Rowbottom, from Thatcham, left the animal’s head at the mosque on Pound Street in...
