Two men and a woman have been arrested after a severed pig’s head was left at the door of the Thurnby Lodge centre in Leicester on Boxing Day. The centre, which has been the target of local hostility and external agitation, has seen a number of protests in recent months after local Muslim group,...
The Mail on Sunday reports on the ‘official secrets’ defence employed by the former Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, in the case concerning Abdul Hakim Belhadj and allegations of the UK’s complicity in his rendition and torture. Belhadj, who is suing the government, the former foreign...
The Daily Telegraph covers the latest intervention by Stephen Lloyd MP to maintain the quality and scope of religious education in the teaching curriculum. Lloyd, MP for Eastbourne and chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Religious Education, has expressed concern that government...
The Croydon Advertiser recently reported that a Greek Orthodox school is being taken to the High Court after it banned a female Muslim pupil from wearing a headscarf. The nine year old student started wearing the headscarf in year 5, however the parents of the girl pulled her out of the school...
The Independent front page today carries the story that Prime Minister David Cameron is pushing for more ethnic minority representation amongst parliamentary candidates to boost the party’s support amongst ethnic minorities, over fears that a failure to do so could ‘spell disaster’ for the...
The Daily Telegraph and The Times (£) have both reported today on the delays in the publication of the Iraq Inquiry report, which could mean that the report is not published “until late next year at the earliest”. The Inquiry was set up to look into why the UK joined the invasion of Iraq, the...
A briefing paper published by Amnesty International last week drew attention to the dire situation affecting refugees, asylum seekers and migrants in Greece. The paper, entitled, ‘Greece: the end of the road for refugees, asylum seekers and migrants’, documents the obstacles that many migrants...
Islamophobia Watch draws our attention to the findings of a study carried out by Jonas R Kunst, David L. Sam, and Pal Ulleberg, into Muslims’ perceptions of Islamophobia, published in the International Journal of Intercultural relations. Whilst a lot of research has been carried out on...
Islamophobia Watch draws our attention to a press release issued by the civil liberties organisation, Cage Prisoners, on the Court of Appeal’s recent decision to overturn the conviction of a man for disseminating terrorism publications. The Court ruled that no causal link could be established...
The Herald Scotland and BBC News both report on the prison sentence handed to a man who threatened Muslims at Glasgow Central Mosque with violence last September. The BBC states that the culprit, Fraser Rae, entered the mosque and “shouted racial abuse and implied he had a bomb and a gun.” He...
