The BBC’s Panorama programme yesterday focused on attitudes towards ‘honour’ amongst Asian and Middle Eastern communities in the UK investigating ‘Britain’s Crimes of Honour’. The programme looked at some of the tragic cases where women have been threatened, imprisoned in their...
Portsmouth News reports that a youth football team manager is being investigated by the Football Association after racist and homophobic comments were posted on his Facebook page. From the local paper: “A youth football team manager is under investigation after racist and homophobic comments...
The English Defence League is facing legal action by Luton Borough Council for using the council logo on its leaflets without permission. The leaflets were distributed during the EDL’s protest at the opening of the Discover Islam Public Information Centre in Luton last weekend.
A female shop owner in Sunderland was physically assaulted and her two young daughters beaten by thugs who raided her shop to steal two boxes of crisps. From the Daily Mail: “Racist thugs spat on a four-year-old girl and brutally beat her mother in a sickening attack.
Peter Oborne in his column in the Daily Telegraph today reflects on Prime Minister David Cameron’s three-day visit to the USA. The article succinctly captures the betrayal of core values that define both countries since the onset of the US-led “war on terror” leading to their diminished...
As the Prime Minister, David Cameron, discusses the UK/US “endgame” for Afghanistan during his three day visit to Washington DC, a new survey shows that support for the Afghan war is significantly waning in the UK. The poll was commissioned by ITV News and carried out by ComRes who questioned...
Local paper, Luton on Sunday, covered the opening last week of the ‘Discover Islam Public Information Centre’. The Centre, based in Luton, is “a community project which aims to provide a neutral environment for people to ask questions about Islam or Muslims that they would feel...
Robert Fisk in his column in Saturday’s Independent dwells on the incitement to violence he has lived with as Middle East correspondent for the paper. The latest such threat came from an Australian pro-Israeli activist who in an email to the Independent wrote: “Robert Fisk is the most...
The BBC has reported that Foreign Secretary William Hague is facing legal action over the alleged use of UK intelligence to assist US drone strikes in Pakistan by the British son of a man who was killed in such a strike. From the BBC: “Human rights lawyers are to sue Foreign Secretary William...
The BBC, the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, the Daily Mail, and the Daily Express all report on the death of an imam in Belgium following an arson attack on a mosque near the Belgian capital, Brussels. One person has been arrested and no other people are being sought in connection with the attack....
