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The Mail on Sunday has apologised for and corrected a story that said “Muslim gangs” were behind an attack on an immigration enforcement van in east London following a complaint to the press regulation body Ipso. The newspaper published a story in July headlined “Welcome to east London: Muslim gang slashes tyres of immigration-raid van before officers showered with eggs from high rise”. According to the story, Muslim youths had carried out the attack in the same week that David Cameron had called on the Muslim community to support the “British way of life”. It quoted an unnamed witness who claimed to have seen five or six youths slash the tyres of the van with kitchen knives after it brought a dozen immigration officials to Shadwell to detain three people. “I think they were local Muslim hoodies just doing a prank, but it’s not funny,” the witness was quoted as saying. Management consultant Miqdaad Versi complained to the Mail on … [Read more...] about Mail on Sunday apologises for ‘Muslim gangs’ attack immigration van story

News about Muslims in the British press is rarely positive, but it is never scarce. Consider these stories, published across a typical month towards the end of 2016. In the Times on 9 November 2016, an article announced: “Islamist School Can Segregate Boys and Girls.” On the Daily Express website, nine days later: “Anger as less than A THIRD of Muslim nations sign up to coalition against Isis.” In the Sun online, on 1 December: “SECRET IS SAFE: Half of British Muslims would not go to cops if they knew someone with Isis links.” On the Daily Express site the day after: “New £5 notes could be BANNED by religious groups as Bank CAN’T promise they’re Halal.” On ITV News, the same day: “Half of UK Muslims would not report extremism.” Two days later, in the Sunday Times: “Enclaves of Islam see UK as 75% Muslim.” The Mail on Sunday, that same day: “Isolated British Muslims are so cut off from the … [Read more...] about One man’s (very polite) fight against media Islamophobia

In December 2012, an Icelandic woman named Thorlaug Agustsdottir discovered a Facebook group called “Men are better than women.” One image she found there, Thorlaug wrote to us this summer in an email, “was of a young woman naked chained to pipes or an oven in what looked like a concrete basement, all bruised and bloody. She looked with a horrible broken look at whoever was taking the pic of her curled up naked.” Thorlaug wrote an outraged post about it on her own Facebook page.Before long, a user at “Men are better than women” posted an image of Thorlaug’s face, altered to appear bloody and bruised. Under the image, someone commented, “Women are like grass, they need to be beaten/cut regularly.” Another wrote: “You just need to be raped.” Thorlaug reported the image and comments to Facebook and requested that the site remove them.“We reviewed the photo you reported,” came Facebook’s auto reply, … [Read more...] about The Unsafety Net: How Social Media Turned Against Women

close Video ‘Young people in this country are not taught right from wrong anymore’: Lahren responds to teen mob who attacked off-duty police officer In her daily commentary "Final Thoughts," Fox Nation host Tomi Lahren shed light on the upbringing of today's youth after a group of teenagers attacked an off duty officer at a busy outdoor shopping center in California last  Friday. "What happened at that mall isn’t an isolated incident or a fluke. This kind of crap happens every single day across the nation. Teens and young people are parenting themselves and clearly, it’s not working. I blame the school system, felon-friendly laws...anti-authority upbringings, and the collapse of the American family, in general," Lahren said. The assault – which was captured on video – happened around 8 p.m. at the Bay Street Mall in Emeryville, located next … [Read more...] about ‘Where the hell are the parents?’ Lahren on brutal teen mob attack of off duty police officer

(The opinions expressed here are those of the author, a columnist for Reuters.) By Peter Apps LONDON, Dec 6 (Reuters) - The celebration of NATO’s birthday began with Donald Trump branding his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron “nasty” and ended with the U.S. president describing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as “two-faced”. It is a measure of Trump-era personality politics that NATO officials will be congratulating themselves on just how well it all went. Broadly speaking, the summit will have been seen as a success by most of those behind it. The alliance – formed 70 years ago to confront the Soviet Union and now working out how to manage relations with Russia and China – avoided a major crisis. The strain, though, was showing on all concerned – not least NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, the man responsible for holding it all together. Widely seen as one of the canniest international operators, particularly when it … [Read more...] about COLUMN-Personalities outweigh issues at NATO’s testy birthday summit: Peter Apps