It would seem the Evening Standard has been forced to eat humble pie and apologise for its pathetic attempt to push Boris’s campaign and vilify Ken Livingstone by attacking the officials serving at the London Borough of Tower Hamlets during the London mayoral elections last May. Yesterday’s...
The Daily Telegraph today reports on the statement issued by the English Chess Federation on the allegations of Islamophobic abuse during the recent tournament in Austria brought by the parents of three young Muslim boys who took part in the competition. The ECF concludes that after a...
The Daily Mail reports on the trial of a pregnant Polish woman and her partner who racially abused and assaulted two Muslim women during a Leeds – Sheffield train journey. The heavily drunk woman tore off the headscarf from one of Muslim victims and had to be restrained by guards and escorted off...
The Metropolitan Police Service has today launched an awareness campaign to protect British Muslims against Hajj fraud as the dates for Hajj 2012 approach. “With just under three months to go until this year’s Hajj [24 – 29 October], The Metropolitan Police Service [MPS] is working...
The local community website, Salford Online, covers The Co-operative Pharmacy’s extension of its meningococcal vaccination scheme for British Muslims preparing to undertake Hajj this year. From the local news site: “The Co-operative Pharmacy is extending its meningococcal vaccination scheme in...
The Independent today covers the story of three young Muslim chess players who, allegedly, were subjected to repeated abuse during a chess competition in Austria by the families of fellow competitors. From the Independent: “A gifted young English chess player was physically assaulted and his...
A curious debate on the BBC’s perceived leftie-liberal bias has been sparked by The Commentator on the back of its FOI request on the corporation’s consumption pattern of national dailies. It transpires the BBC purchases more copies of The Guardian newspaper than other titles, Daily Telegraph,...
The Pew Research Center has released a report on surveys conducted exploring the unity and diversity of the world’s Muslims looking at areas of doctrine, religious practice, religious commitment, and the boundaries of religious identity and religious practice. On the report’s aims and...
Local paper, Leicester Mercury, reports on ongoing protests against plans by the Al-Salaam Trust to convert a disused Scouts Hut into an Islamic community centre. The protests have attracted the attentions of the BNP with leader, Nick Griffin, travelling to Leicester to hijack local protests. From...
Stefan Schreiner, Professor of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies at Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen, Germany, contributes an article to Qantara unearthing the Islamic influence on Europe, and the fiction peddled by far right social movements on the ‘Judeo-Christian’ roots of...
