Manchester Evening News reports on an alleged racist assault on a young Muslim boy in Chorlton, Greater Manchester last week (22 September). Rosina Sheraz posted a message on Facebook following the incident in which her 13 year old son was repeatedly called a “P***” before being punched in the face by another boy. The incident …
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The London Evening Standard reports on a suspected assault on an elderly man outside a mosque in north London. The paper reports a man in his 70s was found injured in the street outside the UK Albanian Muslim Community and Cultural Centre on Rupert Road, in south Kilburn, at around 3.40am on Saturday 24 September. …
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An arson attack at the Edinburgh Central Mosque over the weekend is being considered a hate crime according to Scotland police and a description of the man suspected of setting fire to the front entrance of the mosque has been released. Muslims make up 1.4 percent of the total population in Scotland and 15,000 of …
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The death of a 14-year-old boy, killed on a French motorway while trying to reach his family in Britain, despite having a legal right to asylum in the UK, has sparked urgent calls for the Government to stop playing “disgusting politics” with the lives of refugee children. The young Afghan – who has a brother …
Under European asylum rules known as Dublin III, migrants must make their asylum claim in the first safe country they reach, although children are permitted to transfer to another country if they have family members living there. But according to Britain’s anti-slavery Commissioner Kevin Hyland, children in the camp are risking their lives every day …
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British Defense Ministry said it is “extremely sorry” that an Iraqi boy was allowed to drown after being forced into a river by four soldiers during the British occupation in 2003. Ahmed Jabbar Kareem Ali, 15, was detained on suspicion of looting an industrial compound in May 2003, shortly after the fall of the Saddam …
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Construction will begin soon on a “big new wall” in the French port city of Calais to prevent refugees and migrants from entering Britain, the UK has announced. The four-meter (13 foot) high wall is part of a £17 million ($23 million) deal struck between Britain and France earlier this year to try to block …
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Two men, described as wearing dark coloured uniforms, allegedly entered the Al Rahman Mosque and Community Centre in Crowndale Road on Sunday night and began placing pieces of pork – which is considered “haram” or forbidden in the Islamic faith – inside shoes left on a rack near the entrance. When confronted, the two men, …
A poster mocking child refugees has been displayed on the wall of a communal kitchen in Parliament. Labour MP, Chi Onwurah, tweeted the picture that shows an elderly man wearing a keffiyeh. The text reads: “Just £3 from you could clothe and feed his 12yr old Syrian child for a week.” Ms Onwurah tweeted: “Upset …
Institutional racism in Britain’s universities is harming the performance of minority ethnic students, the UK’s first professor of black studies has said. Kehinde Andrews, an associate professor at Birmingham City University (BCU), told a conference last week marking Black History Month that universities are “no less institutionally racist than the police”, and criticised the curriculum …
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