BBC News reports on the building progress of a new mosque in Redditch which is on track for completion in Spring 2012 despite being the target of a recent attack. The ten year, £2.5 million pound project, to build a new mosque in Redditch has been a long time in the making and not […]
As is wont of the Daily Mail when an issue crops up that requires a “brave Muslim” to speak out on, today’s edition of the paper carries a feature column by Saira Khan on the “brave speech” of Professor Steve Jones at the Hay Festival on “inbreeding” and the high incidence of...
There were some interesting, and all too predictable, headlines in the papers this weekend on the presentation of Professor Steve Jones, an eminent geneticist, at the Hay Festival. Professor Jones is reported to have spoken of “inbreeding” and the impact of first cousin marriages on children...
The Daily Telegraph on Saturday published an article in which the chief executive of Universities UK, Nicola Dandridge, dismissed claims that universities are sites of radicalization or that the presence of offensive speakers at campus events engendered attitudes of a violent extremist nature...
There’s some coverage in the media today (Daily Telegraph, BBC, The Independent) of the G8 Summit and the central place of the Arab Spring on the agenda of the world’s largest economies. News reports detail the financial assistance G8 countries are pledging to support the transition to...
Lancashire Evening Post reports on a second case of a mosque application being referred to the Planning Inspectorate. The Inspectorate’s hearing relates to a planning application (artists impression, above) submitted by Preston Muslim Society to build a three storey mosque on the site of the...
The Lincolnshire Echo relates the conclusion of the court case against a 17 year old from Lincoln charged with carrying out a religiously aggravated attack on a Muslim police officer. From the paper: “A 17-YEAR-OLD youth has been ordered to carry out 100 hours of unpaid community work after...
The BBC reports on new research by academics at Bristol University which shows that schools in Oldham are “largely polarised along racial lines.” “More than 80% of primary school pupils of Pakistani or Bangladeshi origin attended schools, in 2009, in which no more than 20% of the pupils...
The Guardian in an editorial today reflects on the speech given by President Obama to British parliamentarians in Westminster Hall yesterday. Interweaving yesterday’s speech on the UK-US relationship, and President Obama’s address last week at the State Department, the Guardian observes:...
The Lancashire Telegraph reports on charges brought against two people in relation to the desecration of a Qur’an and racist graffiti applied to the walls of Dawat Ul Islam Masjid in Chorley, Lancashire. From the paper: “A Quran was ’desecrated’ and racist graffiti daubed at a mosque, it...
