The Guardian yesterday reported that Andrew Tyrie MP, the chair of the all party parliamentary group on rendition, who is also currently involved in legal action against America to uncover more information about UK involvement in US-led renditions, has joined others in speaking out against the...
Saturday’s Daily Mail carried a short piece by columnist Kelvin MacKenzie in which he described the veil ban in France as a ‘great success’, framing the garment as a choice tool for criminals, and suggests that a 2015 Conservative manifesto clause in support of a UK ban on the face veil would...
Islamophobia Watch alerts us that the Mayor of Tower Hamlets, Lutfur Rahman has lashed out at a report in the Daily Mail that Tower Hamlets council is amongst a number of authorities to have ‘banned’ pork in schools. Similar claims were also published in the Sunday Telegraph. The Daily Mail...
BBC News and the Daily Telegraph have reported that Google’s latest Transparency Report reveals the company’s response to hundreds of requests from state authorities seeking the removal of videos from YouTube. Google removed 640 videos that allegedly promote terrorism after requests were made...
A West Yorkshire newspaper, The Press, reports that the police have denied rumours spread by the English Defence League that Muslim men have been trying to abduct young white girls. The EDL state that ‘vigilante action’ would follow if the police did not act on their allegations. The claims...
BBC News reports that a man has been charged with common assault and a public order offence following a protest by the English Defence League in Newcastle over the Jubilee bank holiday. From BBC News: “A man has been charged with common assault following an English Defence League demonstration in...
Islamophobia Watch alerts us to a report in BBC News that the police are planning a security operation involving 700 police officers in preparation of a protest planned by the English Defence League in Bristol next month. From BBC News: “A security operation costing up to £1m and involving 700...
The Institute of Race Relations has published a new paper looking at far-right violence across Europe. ‘Pedlars of Hate: the violent impact of the European far right’, looks at over 100 cases from the beginning of 2010 to April 2012 and analyses the various dimensions of far-right sub-cultures,...
BBC News reports that a man from Birmingham has pleaded guilty to charges of racially aggravated assault after he pulled a niqab off a Muslim woman’s face in a West Midlands shopping centre in March. From BBC News: “A 26-year-old man has admitted pulling a niqab veil off a Muslim woman at a...
The Llanelli Star reports the good news that a mosque in Llanelli, south Wales, where Muslims “have suffered abuse for 14 years,” has secured funding for the installation of CCTV. The decision to install CCTV came after attacks on the mosque last September and this April, when the...
