Interpal, a London-based Muslim charity which carries out emergency relief work in Palestine, has been notified of the imminent closure of its banking facilities. The charity claims that it has been given no explanation for the upcoming closure of its account, which has the potential to force it to cease all operations in the New
Theme: Climate
The mantra of our time: ‘British values’ good, ‘multiculturalism’ bad
Dominic Grieve, the shadow home secretary, hit the headlines the weekend before the Conservative party conference with his statement that multiculturalism had left a ‘terrible’ legacy on the UK. At the same time, he joined with the increasingly vocal constituency which promotes the assertion of ‘British values’ as a salve to the social malaise of
Two murders investigated as racist
In the recent furore about the murders of young people, it may have been overlooked that two look distinctly as though they were racially motivated. Hastings On Sunday evening, 24 August 2008, 16-year-old Mohammed Al-Majed died in Kings College hospital in London after suffering brain damage two days earlier in an attack outside a Hastings
Convictions in three Black murder cases
IRR News reports on three recent trials of young White men convicted for their part in the deaths of three Black men. Tomorrow, 29-year-old Michael Ross will be sentenced for the murder (suspected of being racially motivated) of Shamsuddin Mahmood. Next week, another young man will be sentenced for his part in a murder in
Racial violence in Ireland
Despite a rise of serious racial attacks, authorities in Ireland are still in denial about racism. The events of the last month have been sobering for anti racism and social justice in Ireland. On 22 February two young Polish workers Marius Szwajkos and Pawel Kalite, who had been in Ireland for just a year, were
Cultural cleansing?
As concern mounts about the rise of Islamophobia in Europe, the Winter 2008 issue of the Institute of Race Relations’ European Race Bulletin provides a snapshot of the mosaic of campaigns against Muslim places of worship and religious symbols across Europe. Issue no. 62 of the European Race Bulletin includes information on: Over thirty local
European Race Bulletin issue no.62 – Cultural cleansing?
Download a copy of issue no.62 of the European Race Bulletin at the links below. Related links Download a copy of issue no.62 of the European Race Bulletin – Cultural Cleansing (pdf file, 257kb)
Was the Ludwigshafen fire an arson attack?
Evidence is emerging to suggest that the fire in which nine Turkish Germans died might have been started deliberately. Over the last week, dramatic pictures have appeared in the British media of the German city of Ludwigshafen, with a tiny child being thrown out of a burning house occupied mostly by Turkish-German families and caught
Racially-motivated murders on the rise
Fifteen years since the death of Stephen Lawrence, there is less and less interest in the scourge of racial violence in the UK, despite murders remaining a major problem. Racial murders- unprovoked attacks on people not known to perpetrators – in the UK are running at around seven per year. Yet no official body is
White man sentenced for murder
On 11 December, Peter Connolly was sentenced to life – with a minimum term of fifteen years in prison – for the murder of Christopher Alaneme, an 18-year-old who died after being stabbed in Sheerness, Kent on 21 April 2006. That night, Christopher, whose Nigerian family had moved from London to Kent because they felt