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Friday, 03 February 2012 15:19 |
From the Surrey Comet:
“A teenage Muslim took his father’s ornamental dagger to school for protection after he feared racist abuse following the Kingston Mosque attack, a court has heard.
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Thursday, 02 February 2012 16:58 |
| | The ‘hactivist group’ Anonymous have revealed that the BNP have links to American extremist group the American Third Position, a far-right white supremacist party which was founded in 2010.
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From The Guardian:
“Hacked emails from a far-right group appear to reveal links with the BNP, after the group of American "hactivists" Anonymous targeted a number of US extremists' websites.
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Thursday, 02 February 2012 16:41 |
| | The London School of Economics’ Student’s Union newspaper, The Beaver, reports on several motions relating to combating religious hatred on campus which were debated at an Emergency General Meeting of the SU last week.
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With respect to the motion on Islamophobia, The Beaver states:
“The second motion, entitled “No to racism – No to Islamaphobia,” was raised in response to increasing tensions on campus between various LSE student societies. Many Muslim students were offended by the LSE Students’ Union Atheist, Secularist, and Humanist (ASH) Society’s publication of a “Jesus and Mo” cartoon, in which the two are portrayed “having a pint.” The cartoon was originally posted on the ASH Society’s Facebook page in solidarity with a similar society at the University College of London (UCL) which was asked to take the cartoon down by the UCL Students’ Union.
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Wednesday, 01 February 2012 15:44 |
| | The chairman of the PCC, Lord Hunt, in his oral testimony to the Leveson Inquiry yesterday revealed plans for a new press regulatory watchdog which, he argues, will be more ‘robust’ and have powers to investigate allegations of misconduct, impose fines and award compensation to victims of media malpractice.
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From The Guardian:
“The new chairman of the Press Complaints Commission has unveiled a blueprint for a "totally new" newspaper watchdog which he hopes will eradicate "bad journalism" and practices that have brought "shame" on the industry.
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Tuesday, 31 January 2012 15:05 |
| | The BBC reports that former senior MI6 officer Sir Mark Allen in being sued by two Libyan rebel leaders for the alleged role of the British government in their own and their family’s illegal rendition and torture.
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From the BBC:
“Two men who say they were rendered to Libya with the help of the UK have begun an action to sue one of Britain's most senior former MI6 officers.
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Monday, 30 January 2012 15:45 |
| | Local paper, the Redditch Standard, reports on an arson attack started outside a mosque in Redditch last week, on Tuesday 24th January.
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From the Redditch Standard:
“Arsonists are believed to have started a fire outside a mosque in Redditch on Tuesday evening (January 24).
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Friday, 27 January 2012 12:16 |
| | PM David Cameron’s speech to the European Court of Human Rights was covered in the papers yesterday.
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The PM alluded to the recent ECHR ruling on Abu Qatada saying:
“Protecting a country from terrorism is one of the most important tasks for any government.
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Friday, 27 January 2012 12:07 |
An article covering the same case appears in the London Evening Standard titled ‘Muslim raped women for being out late’.
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Thursday, 26 January 2012 17:11 |
| | MP for Tooting, Sadiq Khan, has a short comment piece in the Evening Standard today on the exhibition on the Hajj which opens today at the British Museum.
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Khan writes:
“Muslims have been performing this pilgrimage for centuries; non-Muslims are not allowed to enter this holy city. An estimated three million people from all over the globe do so every year: Chinese, Namibian, Azerbaijani and every other kind of Muslim, as well as the 25,000 British Muslims who travel each year to form this kaleidoscope of our planet.
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Thursday, 26 January 2012 12:22 |
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Follow the links here for part 1 and part 2. A full transcript can be read here.
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