There is widespread coverage (Guardian, BBC, Sky, ITV and the Gloucestershire Echo) in the media on the sentencing of Simon Parkes to four months for committing an act of racially or religiously aggravated criminal damage. Parkes tied a severed pig’s head to the gates of the Masjidul Falah mosque...
There is considerable coverage in the press today of reactions to the BBC’s new comedy show, Citizen Khan. The Guardian reports that the BBC may be investigated by Ofcom after 20 complaints were received by the broadcast regulator protesting of the show’s breach of the regulatory code covering...
The Daily Mail, Daily Express and Daily Telegraph all report on a case of discrimination and unfair dismissal brought by an British – Arab immigration officer against the Home Office after he was sacked from his post at Gatwick Airport over alleged claims of ‘links to Islamic terrorism’....
The Huddersfield Examiner relays that a family moving into their new home in Kirklees were faced with racist graffiti daubed on their front and rear doors and walls. Nazi swastikas and the letters EDL were spray painted on. The family home was earlier vandalised with eggs thrown at the windows and...
The Sun newspaper reports on Facebook comments posted by a supporter of the English Defence League praising Anders Breivik for his “do[ing] what he thought was right”. Philip Horn, of Gillingham in Kent, wrote that Breivik was “…just one of many like myself who wish their country to return...
Local Middlesbrough paper, The Evening Gazette, reports on the conviction of six men, all of whom are associated with the English Defence League, for religiously aggravated disorder. The men were apprehended after shouting inflammatory religious abuse while at Middlesbrough railway station last...
The Daily Mail and Sunday Telegraph report on the appeal launched by two men convicted of terrorism offences after lawyers argued that material used against them in court was gained through torture. The men, Rangzieb Ahmed and Salahuddin Amin, claim MI5 acted in complicity with the Pakistani...
BBC News and the Guardian today both cover the US military report into an investigation over the Qur’an burning incident at Bagram airbase last February and the video footage of four US marines urinating on Afghan corpses. From the BBC: “Six US soldiers have been disciplined for the...
The Mail on Sunday this week published an article noting that the Premier League has taken the step of widening the variety of celebratory drink offered to footballers voted ‘Man of the Match’. With the growing number of Muslim footballers playing for Premier League clubs, the League has...
The Midlands Business News reports that Birmingham’s Central Mosque has collected 2.5 tonnes of food, donated by Muslims in the city, for a local charity working with needy and vulnerable people. From the local paper: “Generous worshippers at a Birmingham mosque have donated 2.5 tonnes of food...
