In numbers: counter-terrorism powers disproportionately affect ethnic and religious minorities in Britain

May 18, 2016 Article

In September 2015, the Home Office released data on terrorism statistics, allowing us to review the use of terrorism-related powers on ethnic and religious minority [...]

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Shock, Horror, How Dare Top Commissioning Editor Question the Status Quo

May 17, 2016 Article

Anyone reading the Sun newspaper a few days ago would have thought that the end of the world had arrived since the ‘Muslim’ Head of Religion and Ethics, Aaqil Ahmed, had simply made a comment. So, what was that comment that the ‘Muslim’ Head of Religion and Ethics had made – (apologies for stressing the

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Trump to British PM: “I’m not stupid, okay?”

May 15, 2016 Article

Prime Minister Cameron Calls Trump, ‘Stupid, Divisive and Wrong’ Presumptive U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said he hopes to be able to work with British Prime Minister David Cameron in spite of Cameron calling the Republican candidate ‘stupid, divisive and wrong’ on his stance on Muslims. “It looks like we’re not going to have

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Facebook, Twitter, Youtube face hate speech complaints in France

May 15, 2016 Article

Community Organisations Tackling Hate Incidents and Hate Crimes Come Together in France Three French anti-racism associations said on Sunday they would file legal complaints against social networks Facebook, Twitter and Google’s Youtube for failing to remove “hateful” content posted on their platforms. French law requires websites to take down racist, homophobic or anti-semitic material and

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Facebook, Twitter, Youtube face hate speech complaints in France

May 15, 2016 Article

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Muslims Win Eurovision, the London Mayoralty & the Great British Bake Off

May 14, 2016 Article

As the nation was glued to their television screens, a small but important fact missed many by. This fact, was that the Ukrainian lead singer known as Dzjamala, is in fact a Muslim female – Susanna Jamaladinova. Dzjamala performed the song “1944” during the Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm and was born in Kirghiz (Kyrgyzstan)

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‘This is America’ air traveler says guilty of yanking Muslim’s scarf

May 13, 2016 Article

A North Carolina man admitted on Friday that he ripped off a Muslim woman’s head scarf during a flight to New Mexico last December after saying, “Take it off! This is America!” Gill Payne, 37, pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court in New Mexico to one count of using force to intentionally obstruct the

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Top Hezbollah commander killed in Damascus blast

May 13, 2016 Article

Hezbollah’s top military commander Mustafa Badreddine has been killed in a blast at a base near Damascus airport, the Lebanese Shi’ite group said on Friday, [...]

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How a MailOnline article distorted a video from 2014 to highlight ‘racist’ Muslim women

May 13, 2016 Article

A recent story published by MailOnline and The Sun reposted an argument between TfL passengers from December 14, 2014. The respective headlines gave weight to the ‘You white sl*g!’ and ‘Don’t call me a white b***h!’ comments. We are then informed that ‘Two white women and two women wearing hijabs fired insults at each other

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