Lancashire News reports that police have obtained an order against extremist right-wing group, the English Defence League (EDL), over their protests against Blackburn’s KFC serving halal chicken. From the article, “Officers acted after seven nights of demonstrations kicked off with scenes of...
Anti-Islamic Dutch MP, Geert Wilders, went on trial yesterday, charged with inciting racial hatred against Muslims. Today, however, the trial has been halted amid allegations of bias on the part of presiding judge, Jan Moors. The Guardian reports that Wilders said, “’I am on trial, but on...
Over the weekend, the Sunday Telegraph reported of three Muslim schools that, according to them, “force girls to wear the burka or a full headscarf and veil known as the niqab.” The article states, “The Sunday Telegraph has established that three UK institutions have introduced a...
We thought you may be interested in reading an editorial in today’s Independent, which picks up on the stories reported in most newspapers today of fears of a terrorist attack in Europe (see The Guardian, the Daily Mail and the Evening Standard to name a few of those papers). The editorial...
The Guardian covers the report on the controversial surveillance cameras installed by Birmingham City Council in predominantly Muslim areas of the city stating that “a secret police operation to place thousands of Muslims living in Birmingham under permanent surveillance was implemented...
The Netherlands will ban the burqa and halve immigration under measures agreed as part of a pact to form a coalition government. This development is the condition that anti-Islam politician, Geert Wilders, secured for his party’s support for the coalition. One report states, “’A new wind...
“Be in no doubt. The new generation of Labour is different. Different attitudes, different ideas, different ways of doing politics.” This was the message that new Labour leader, Ed Miliband, had for the Labour Party Conference this week. Ed Miliband, who beat his elder brother, David, to the...
“If you have a pop at the British Muslim community in the media, then first of all it will sell a few papers; second, it doesn’t really matter; and third, it’s fair game.” This is the view given by Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, the first Muslim woman on the Cabinet, attacking the...
Papers today report on the news that, within months of the “War on Terror”, Tony Blair and senior ministers in the Labour government knew of allegations that UK nationals were being tortured but brushed them aside in a bid to stand “shoulder to shoulder” with the US. The Guardian writes,...
On Saturday, 2nd October, The South Gloucestershire branch of the National Union of Teachers (NUT) and UCU are holding a conference on challenging Islamophobia in schools. The event is intended to address the “lack [of] strategies and resources to challenge Islamophobia in the classroom.”...
