Arson Attack At Gloucester Mosque

Police in Gloucester are appealing for information after a man set light to a door at a mosque in the city in the early hours of today.

News story

Charles Moore's Islamophobic smears

Writing in the Telegraph, Charles Moore does his best to draw an equivalence between fascist  street fighting gangs and organisations such as Tell Mama who monitor anti Muslim hate crime.

Islamic boarding school fire in Bromley treated as suspicious by police

Two people treated for smoke inhalation after fire at Darul Uloom school, amid ongoing fears of reprisals for Woolwich murder.

Guardian story

UK mosques urged to install panic alarms and safe rooms

US Islamic group says British centres at greater risk than in other western country since the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby.
Observer story 

78-year-old Asian woman physically assaulted in Aylesbury

A 31-year-old man allegedly went on a racist rampage through Aylesbury’s Alfred Rose Park, attacking an elderly woman and smashing the doors and windows of a house.

It is the latest in a worrying line of racist attacks against the town’s Muslim population since Drummer Lee Rigby was killed in a terrorist outrage in Woolwich last month.

A 31-year-old man allegedly went on a racist rampage through Aylesbury’s Alfred Rose Park, attacking an elderly woman and smashing the doors and windows of a house.It is the latest in a worrying line of racist attacks against the town’s Muslim population since Drummer Lee Rigby was killed in a terrorist outrage in Woolwich last month.

The Bucks Herald story

Police investigate fire at Islamic community centre in Muswell Hill

Police confirm EDL graffiti found at site of blaze in Muswell Hil, London, as fears increase of reprisals after Woolwich murder. Guardian story

Gilligan is at it again

Regular readers of IW will need no introduction to Andrew Gilligan. The fact that we have 75 entries related to his writing on the site speaks for itself. Following the murder in Woolwich of Lee Rigby there has been a wave of Islamophobic hate crime including vandalism and assaults, documented on this site and, more comprehensively, by the Tell Mama project. In response to the documentation of such attacks Gilligan had a piece in the Telegraph attempting to discredit Tell Mama and deny that there had been any real increase in anti Muslim hate crime. Tell Mama have a piece comprehensively taking apart Gilligan's hatchet job here.

Tony Blair says murder of Lee Rigby proves 'there is a problem within Islam'

"Tony Blair today makes his most powerful political intervention since leaving Downing Street by launching an outspoken attack on ‘the problem within Islam’.  

"The former Prime Minister addresses the shocking killing of Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich by going further than he – or any front-rank British politician – has gone before over the issue of Muslim radicalism.

"Tony Blair today makes his most powerful political intervention since leaving Downing Street by launching an outspoken attack on ‘the problem within Islam’.  The former Prime Minister addresses the shocking killing of Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich by going further than he – or any front-rank British politician – has gone before over the issue of Muslim radicalism."

Daily Mail article

Vandals daub graffiti on Pleasington cemetery prayer hall

Police are investigating after graffiti was painted on to the wall of a Muslim prayer hall at a cemetery in Lancashire. 

BBC News story

How the EDL has exploited a murder

Daniel Trilling reports for New Statesman on the far-right rally at Downing Street on Bank Holiday Monday