A bomb threat evacuated 450 Muslim children from their school.
Tuesday. Birmingham.
You probably didn't hear about it.
One local school. 450 Muslim children. A bomb threat.
The media didn't think it was worth making national.
An email. Their last day of term, mid awards ceremony.
Sniffer dogs through the corridors. 450 children standing outside while police checked for explosives.
Hamd House School, Bordesley Green.
The threat was also sent to Ofsted.
Police have logged it as harassment.
We log it as what it is. A bomb threat against 450 Muslim children, on their last day of school, is Islamophobia.
The proprietor says the school has been targeted before.
The Birmingham Mail covered it. Yahoo News picked it up.
No one else.
450 children. No headline.
Days earlier, 15,000 Muslims were moved off a Suffolk estate under a declared major incident.
A far-right terror plot against a religious gathering.
Twelve arrests. Three men held on suspicion of conspiracy to murder.
The Home Secretary said the police response saved lives.
That one did make the news. For a day.
Try to find it now. It's not on the BBC homepage.
Two months ago, a bomb hoax evacuated a Peter Kay gig at Birmingham's Utilita Arena. Same police force. No target, no children, a comedy show.
The BBC, LBC and Yahoo all had it up within hours. National headline news.
450 Muslim children evacuated from their own school. Not one national outlet touched it.
Rajab, who worships at Al Madinah Masjid in Norwich, was there for Suffolk. He told the BBC: "I'm not scared, I'm not worried because that's a normal thing. It's a thing we face on a daily basis."
A father telling his community that surviving a terror plot is just Tuesday.
You had to search "Suffolk terror event" just to confirm it still existed.
And the state?
Two days before the school threat, the government announced £250 million to police antisemitism. Three years. Hundreds of new officers.
That threat is real. That protection is right. We would not take a penny of it away.
Our number: £40 million.
£10 a head, against £105.
And ours came with a written condition. Don't "undermine" the government, or lose it.
One community gets protection.
Ours gets a leash. And a bomb threat on the last day of school.
No COBRA meeting.
No hate crime action plan.
No headline.
450 children went home early on their last day because someone threatened to blow them up.
You had to come here to find out.
We are not asking for less protection for anyone.
We are asking for the same protection to keep our communities safe.
So no father has to explain to his child why they went home early on the last day of school, instead of walking out with an award and a smile.
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The 19-year-old defendant, from St Helens, subjected his partner to a cruel three-hour ordeal inside their home.
Police officers arrived at the flat to find the victim covered in white paint and curled up in a ball on the bathroom floor.
She was audibly sobbing and shrieking through a hole in the door, which was still smouldering and smoking.
During the assault, the teenager hit her with a broom handle and a golf club before putting her in a chokehold from behind.
When she tried to hide in the bathroom, he smashed the door with the golf club and used an aerosol and a lighter to set fire to it.
He then threw dumbbells and a bottle of bleach at her, causing the liquid to splash onto her body.
In what was described in court as an extremely selfish act, he took hold of a memorial t-shirt featuring a photograph of her deceased grandmother.
He set fire to the garment right in front of her while telling her that her nan would rot in hell.
The attack came just two days after another incident where he struck his girlfriend with a hammer following an argument.
Following his arrest, he openly threatened his victim in front of police officers, stating that he was going to smash her face in when he got out.
But he has now walked free from court after a judge handed him an 18-month imprisonment suspended for 18 months.
The court heard he had already spent nearly five months in custody on remand, which the judge noted was the equivalent of a nine-month sentence for a teenager with no previous convictions.
He was also given a five-year restraining order and a rehabilitation activity requirement of up to 20 days.
Another kick in the teeth, metaphorically speaking to the brave young woman who endured his cowardly attacks.
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