The Daily Mail and Independent both report on the Coalition’s plans to introduce legislation criminalizing forced marriages. From the Independent: “The Prime Minister will announce that forced marriage will be made a criminal offence following reports that up to 8,000 Britons are made to marry...
The Huddersfield Examiner covers the case of an ex-British soldier who has been fined for racially assaulting an Asian female police officer and telling her to “Go back to your own country.” From the local paper: “A Bradley man has admitted racially assaulting an Asian police officer....
Islamophobia Watch covers the news report featured on BBC London yesterday evening regarding the Charity Commission’s launch of an investigation into Leyton Mosque over allegations of its ‘terror links’. The report also features in the Independent today. From BBC News: “An east London...
Islamophobia Watch alerts us to a story in the Camden New Journal on a dispute over pay deductions for Muslims taking prayer breaks. The paper reports that Camden Council has backed-down on plans to deduct five minutes pay from Muslim employees every time they take a break for prayer, after Camden...
Islamophobia Watch has covered a report from the Newham Recorder on the conclusion of a dispute over the possible closure of an Islamic school in East London. The paper reports that the enforcement notice issued by Newham Council against Alif Academy over safety concerns has been quashed, and that...
The Daily Telegraph yesterday carried an article on a Ministry of Justice report on Whitemoor Prison, written by researchers at the Cambridge Institute of Criminology. The article was headlined ‘Prisoners under pressure to convert to Muslim ‘gang’’. The report on which the article...
There has been widespread coverage in the Guardian, the Independent, the Daily Mail and on BBC News, on the Government’s U-turn on proposals to extend the mandate of secret trials, known as ‘closed material procedures’. The proposals are detailed in a Justice and Security bill,...
The Lancashire Evening Post has reported on a racist attack which took place last week on a Muslim-run community centre in Preston. From the LEP: “Vandals struck at a Preston community centre and daubed the walls with racist graffiti. “The Hamaara Centre, at the rear of Castleton Road,...
Sky News reports on the jailing of a woman who subjected tube passengers to a hate-filled rant on a Central Line tube last January. The woman, who racially abused fellow passengers has been jailed for 21 weeks for racially aggravated assault. From Sky News: “A woman whose racist abuse of...
The Daily Mail’s blog section, Right Minds, carried an article over the weekend on the UK-US extradition treaty written by David Bermingham, one of the NatWest 3. Bermingham argues that the Government’s failure to reform the treaty jeopardises British democracy and the rights of British...
