The BBC reports on the sentences passed on three men found guilty of an arson attack on a mosque in Haywards Heath, West Sussex, last February. From the BBC: “James Everley, 20, of Crawley, James Smith, 20, of Burgess Hill, and Joshua Morris, 20, of Haywards Heath, were all sentenced to three...
Professor Roy Greenslade blogs on Media Guardian on the Islam Channel’s proposed ‘Alternative Leveson Inquiry’. The Alternative Leveson Inquiry has been set up to investigate the causal relationship between media representations of Islam and Muslims and popular social attitudes towards...
There is an interesting comment piece by Jonathan Freedland in today’s Guardian, ‘In defence of Britain’s tabloid newspapers’. In the article, Freedland explores the potential value that tabloids have to contribute to a free press. From the Guardian: “He made an unlikely anti-racist...
The Daily Mail has once again attempted to perpetuate the myth of the Islamisation of Britain via-halal meat, publishing an article on the rejection of demands to serve halal meat in the restaurants and cafes of the Houses of Parliament. Titled, ‘We won’t eat halal meat, say MPs and...
The Shields Gazette reports that a drunk woman smashed a window at the Bait – ul -Mamur Jame Masjid in South Tyneside. From the local paper: “Police were called to Baring Street in South Shields after Sarah Riley was seen on CCTV running amok at 5.30am. “Officers told the 22-year-old to go...
Simon Jenkins in The Guardian today reflects on what he considers the easy bellicosity of NATO powers against the Muslim world, and the UK’s imperialist echoes in its relations with Muslim majority states. Jenkins writes: “That echo [of imperialism] is far from an irrelevance. It has...
The Independent Academic Research Institute and the pressure group Stopwatch are conducting a survey to gather young people’s opinions on new proposals to extend police powers. The changes include giving police forces the power to ask members of the public to remove face coverings, such as...
It would seem Martin Bright’s efforts to drive a wedge between Muslim and Jewish communities has found disfavour among some readers of the Jewish Chronicle. In reviewing Bright’s article of last week Islamophobia Watch observed: “Bright is quite happy to poison relations between the...
Nabil Ahmed, head of the Federation of Student Islamic Societies has warned the government against linking university attendance with terrorism. He made the comments in response to evidence given by Hannah Stuart of the Henry Jackson Society to the Home Affairs select committee’s conference at...
Former UKIP candidate, Abhijit Pandya has written in the Daily Mail Right Minds blog defending his position on banning the burqa. His comments come after Nigel Farage, the leader of UKIP suggested that he is considering reverting UKIP’s current policy on the burqa which advocates a total...
