Tag: Islamophobia

Man Jailed For Vicious Assault On Customer In Kebab Shop

  The Western Telegraph reports on the sentencing expected in the case of Anthony Rees, 32, after he pleaded guilty to racially aggravated common assault at Haverfordwest Magistrates on 13 October. Rees was charged following an attack on Hussain Yossaff at a kebab shop in Milford Haven on 15 February. Rees was said to have headbutted Yossaff… Read More ›

State-Sanctioned Genocide Targeting Rohingya Muslims In Myanmar

Myanmar is hosting its first free and fair election in 25 years, but is it really free and fair for the 1.1 million Rohingya Muslims who are deprived of statehood? Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit uncovered disturbing details about the conditions that Rohingya Muslims face in Myanmar. There is “strong evidence” of state-sanctioned genocide against Rohingya… Read More ›

Two Men Jailed For Assault In Exeter City Centre

  The Exeter Express and Echo reports on the jailing of a former boxer and a body builder following a fracas outside a nightclub in Exeter city centre in which a Sri Lankan man was physically assaulted and subjected to Islamophobic abuse. Christopher Jackson, 27 and Craig Lee, 25 were both charged with causing actual… Read More ›

Muslim Men And Kids In Double Digits

Some of the weekend papers (Daily Mail,Daily Telegraph, Daily Express) covered the second reading of Baroness Caroline Cox’s Arbitration and Mediation Bill in the House of Lords last Friday headlining with the peer’s incendiary remark that ” in some [Muslim] communities with high polygamy and divorce rates, men may have up to 20 children each.” The… Read More ›

Jay Smith’s Racist, White-Supremacist + Xenophobic Links Exposed?

Yahya Snow writes: “I hope our allies at Unite Against Fascists can keep an eye on Jay Smith’s ‘apologetics’ group he calls the Pfander Centre for Apologetics (co-founded by Beth Grove). Folk have been linking Islamophobes with racists, fascists and xenophobes here in Europe and beyond for a while. Well, Jay Smith dropped his guard… Read More ›

Here Are the (Many) Muslim Condemnations of ISIS You’ve Been Looking For

We’ve all heard it before. In the wake of violence carried out by Muslims, a proverbial echo: “Why aren’t Muslims speaking out? Why aren’t they condemning these acts, done in the name of their religion?” It’s a common exhortation, one that is ever the more amplified in the age of ISIS. Begged in earnest by… Read More ›

UKIP Candidate Who Called Islam “Evil Cult” Barred From Standing For Party

  The Express and Star reports that a UKIP candidate who claimed on Facebook that Islam was an “evil cult” and that European integration was a form of “genocide” has been banned from standing for the party in the Black Country. Steve Latham stood for Parliament in West Bromwich East in the General Election earlier this year when… Read More ›

The Niqab Is Dominating Canada’s Election

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper was floundering in the polls until he turned the niqab into a hot-button issue. Some say he’s distracting voters from his poor management of the economy, his war on the environment and his anti-refugee policy. Correction: Zunera Ishaq won her case in the Federal Court of Appeal, but the Canadian… Read More ›

PM Announces Islamophobia To Be As A Separate Category Of Crime

  There is considerable coverage in the newspapers today (Daily Mail, The Guardian, Mirror, BBC News, ITV News,Sky News and Politics Home) about the Government’s announcement that police forces in England and Wales will begin recording Islamophobia as a separate category of crime. The announcement follows the mention of such a proposal in a speech… Read More ›

A Leopard And His Spots

    The Huffington Post, Daily Mail and the Independent all report on the former leader of the English Defence League, Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, who was seen last week in the Netherlands calling out to a rally organised by the Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the Occident (Pegida) to “stand together to fight Islamification”. Pegida is… Read More ›

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