Chair of the Home Affairs select committee, Keith Vaz MP, has tabled an early day motion urging police forces to record Islamophobia as a category of hate crime, similar to the uniform recording of anti-Semitism. EDM 945 states: “That this House notes the recognition of anti-Muslim sentiment and...
The Leicester Mercury publishes a lovely open letter from a local resident to the community of Masjid Umar in Evington Road, Leicester. The letter reads: “I want to thank your community for the most amazing selfless act that happened on Friday night – it has truly moved me and has changed my...
It would seem events in Mali and Algeria have stirred Islamophobic sentiments at home among those who use any and every opportunity to rehearse their deep seated prejudices against Islam and Muslims. Melanie Phillips in her column in yesterday’s Daily Mail weaved a confused narrative linking the...
The Daily Mail reports on the sentencing of a teenager who pulled the hijab from a Muslim female and punched her pregnant friend in the head in a racist attack in Royston, Glasgow last September. The teenager, who carried out the assault with her aunt, has been jailed for two years and eight...
Scottish newspaper, The Herald, reports on the mayhem caused by a small group of Scottish Defence League protestors in Pollockshields, a densely Asian populated part of Glasgow, at the weekend. The SDL members, numbering no more than 10 according to the paper, wanted to lay a wreath commemorating...
There was an interesting snippet of election information in James Forsyth’s column in yesterday’s Mail on Sunday. Forsyth writes of the strategy being employed by the Conservatives to woo the ethnic vote ahead of the next general election, and beyond. Forsyth reports, “Conservative...
The Daily Mail today has published an article featuring video footage unearthed by The Commentator which reportedly shows ‘Muslim patrols’ operating in east London. The paper reports, “Police are investigating reports a gang claiming to be Islamic vigilantes have been confronting members of...
Local Newcastle newspaper, the Journal, reports on a special meeting held yesterday to discuss proposed plans to convert a disused pub in Shotton Colliery into an Islamic education centre. The plans have attracted local opposition and have been the focus of an English Defence League demonstration...
Our letter to the Press Complaints Commission on the article appearing in the Evening Standard on Tuesday, ‘Muslim sex ring accused of grooming ‘troubled’ underage girls’, can be read here. .
The Dewsbury Reporter covers the sentencing of seven men for offences committed in Dewsbury and Heckmondwike after an English Defence League demonstration in Cleckheaton last March. The men all pleaded guilty to various charges of violent disorder, causing racially aggravated fear of violence and...
