Tag: Britain

Nigel Farage, ‘Jews Are Fearful Of Muslims’

  The Jewish Chronicle this week features an interview with UKIP party leader, Nigel Farage, following on from last week’s interview with the new party candidate for Hendon, Dr Raymond Shamash. Shamash replaced the former candidate for Hendon, Jeremy Zeid, who was forced to step down after tweeting comments suggesting the US President, Barack Obama,… Read More ›

Britain: Four Pigs Heads Left Outside Community Centre ‘Mosque’ In Solihull

  BBC News, ITV News, the Guardian, Daily Mirror and Birmingham Mail all cover an Islamophobic hate crime in Solihull after four severed pigs heads were left at the door of a community centre rumoured to be in use as an unauthorised mosque. The papers report that West Midlands Police were alerted to the incident… Read More ›

Man Sentenced For Stabbing Muslim Shopkeeper

  The Islington Gazette reports on the sentencing of Michael O’Leary, who was on trial for an attack on a Muslim shopkeeper in north London last year. O’Leary, who attacked Samsul Islam at his convenience store on Holloway Road, was cleared of attempted murder at Blackfriars Crown Court last week. Samsul Islam told the court… Read More ›

MEND Statement On Sunday Telegraph Article By Andrew Gilligan

  Peter Oborne, former chief political commentator at the Daily Telegraph, in a sequence of articles for Open Democracy has shed significant light on the demise of standards at the Telegraph titles drawing attention to the paper’s refusal to publish his investigative pieces on the behaviour of the Charity Commission towards British Muslim charities and the paper’s… Read More ›

Far-right Round Up – Halal

By Matthew Collins / Hope Not Hate Britain First led the way this week when they managed to produce the world’s smallest Nazi newspaper. Britain First claim they have printed 30,000 copies of their mini-paper. Obviously nobody told them that they have to actually sell them to make the actual money they think they are… Read More ›

More Anti-Muslim Graffiti Found At University Of Birmingham

  The Birmingham Mail reports on another incident of racist and Islamophobic graffiti at a Birmingham University building. It is the third occurrence this year of graffiti appearing on the university campus. In the latest attack, the words ‘Kill Islam before it kills you’ were sprayed on a storage box near sports pitches at the University of Birmingham… Read More ›

BNP Protests Against Mosque In Bromley

  The local paper News Shopper and This is Local London draws attention to a BNP protest against the conversion of a former Methodist church in Keston, Bromley into a mosque. The former reports that the British National Party (BNP) staged a demonstration against the plans outside the mosque last weekend handing out leaflets. Signs… Read More ›

Jewish Defence League UK Extremists Sentenced For Assault On Palestine Activists

By Asa Winstanley / Electronic Intifada Two thugs affiliated with the Jewish Defence League UK were sentenced Monday to 150 hours of community service each and £1,140 ($1,700) in fines between them. Roberta Moore and Robert De Jonge assaulted two people at a Palestine literary festival in London in September. Last month a judge found… Read More ›

Home Secretary Announces New Counter-Extremism Strategy

By MEND   The Home Secretary today announced the Government’s new counter-extremism strategy after the weekend papers reported on disagreements between the Coalition parties about how far restrictions on free speech should go. The new strategy presents a number of important questions about the effectiveness of the Government’s approach, past and future. Perhaps most disturbing in… Read More ›

Nottingham Citizens Report On Rise In Racial & Religious Hate Crime

  Local paper, the Eastwood Advertiser, reports on hate crime statistics in the Nottingham region as analysed by the local chapter of Citizens UK, Nottingham Citizens. According to a report by Nottingham Citizens, the vast majority of hate crimes are motivated by race and religion indicators with 80 per cent of attacks meeting this profile;… Read More ›

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