Three people have been charged with arson following a fire at a mosque in West Sussex, reported the BBC. “The fire at the mosque in Wivelsfield Road, Haywards Heath, was started in the early hours of Sunday. “It opened in November after being renovated at a cost of hundreds of thousands of...
The Evening Standard on Friday reported that the satellite channel Peace TV is to be investigated by the regulator, OFCOM following a single complaint by a viewer over its apparent “extremist messages.” The paper further reported that Zakir Naik, the scholar who was banned from entering the...
The Mail on Sunday once again picked up the issue of halal meat this weekend with the headline “Don’t force pupils to eat halal, C of E tells schools.” From the paper: “The Church of England has told its schools to ensure they are serving non-halal food after concerns that a number...
Many will have watched Channel 4’s Dispatches documentary last night, “Lessons in hate and violence”, presented by Tazeen Ahmad. Last night’s documentary raised a number of disturbing issues uncovered by the Dispatches team in two schools – the Darul Uloom Islamic High School in...
Local paper, the Essex Enquirer, reports that a Labour councillor in Thurrock, Essex, has been suspended by her party for “passing on allegedly racist comments in an email.” From the paper: “The suspension was announced four days after it was revealed that Belhus councillor Sue Gray had...
At 8pm tonight, Channel 4 will air a Dispatches programme, titled, “Lessons in Hate and Violence.” The Dispatches website promotes the programme as follows: “Dispatches goes undercover to investigate allegations that teachers regularly assault young children in some of the 2,000 Muslim...
The Independent today reports that controversial figure, Thilo Sarrazin will speak at the London School of Economics tonight in a debate on multiculturalism. From the paper: “A German banker who has said “all Jews share a certain gene” and described Muslims as “dunces”...
Further to yesterday’s announcement of the arrest of two men in Devon on suspicion of publishing racially inflammatory material and anti-Muslim videos on to the internet, the local news website ‘This is Cornwall’ further reported that Devon and Cornwall Police are preparing for “a...
David Cameron’s speech at the Munich Security Conference has been hailed by the far-right, who applaud him for “[coming] round to our way of thinking”to Muslims”, precisely at a time when “elsewhere in Europe, far-right organizations such as the BNP have increasingly switched the focus...
The Flintshire Chronicle reports of an arson attack on the site of a proposed Islamic cultural centre in Shotton, North Wales. From the local paper: “POLICE and fire crews are combing the scene of a huge blaze which gutted a social club earmarked to become an Islamic cultural...
