Category Archives: Anti-Muslim violence

Thug jailed for attack on Asian taxi driver he blamed for Lee Rigby murder

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A golfer who carried out a racially aggravated attack on an Asian taxi driver after wrongly linking him to the killing of Drummer Lee Rigby was jailed for seven months.

Drunk Kevin Dunne, 57, was on a golfing holiday with friends when the attack on Shabir Ahmed happened after the driver dropped them at Newport’s five-star Celtic Manor Resort around 12.15am on May 26.

Newport Crown Court heard Dunne said: “You know what happened last week in London? It was one of your brothers who done it. Where are you from?”

Mr Ahmed ignored the comment and asked for his £12 fare but Dunne gave him a handful of change and a 20 pence tip, saying: “That’s all you’re having. **** off out of here, you ******* Paki.”

Dunne then head butted him and punched him twice in the face, which loosened a tooth.

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Security stepped up over Black Country mosque bombs

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Security has been stepped up at mosques following the discovery of a second bomb in the Black Country within three weeks, it emerged today.

Investigations into the suspected nail bomb at Kanz-ul-Iman Muslim Welfare Association Central Jamia Mosque in Tipton on Friday and one found at the Aisha Mosque in Caldmore are running side by side, police said. And although they are not yet formally linking them, it has not been ruled out.

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Police investigate suspected ‘nail bomb’ outside Tipton mosque

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Tipton policePolice have sealed off an area around a West Midland mosque and evacuated local residents after a loud bang was heard. No injuries have been reported but officers say they have closed off the area around Binfield Street as a precaution.

Eyewitnesses at the scene claim a bomb went off in the car park of the mosque at 1.15pm. Some residents have reported finding debris in the area – including nails. This is being investigated by forensic officers at the scene.

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Footballer jailed over anti-Muslim tweets

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Shaun Tuck (2)Merseyside footballer Shaun Tuck was jailed after sending a string of anti-Muslim tweets in the wake of the Woolwich murder of Drummer Lee Rigby.

Tuck, 26, a former Marine FC striker who now plays for Witton Albion, in Northwich, admitted using the social network to call for mosques in the UK to be “gassed out or bombed”. The drink-fuelled online tirade also referred to beheading Muslim children and called for a riot in response to the tragedy.

Liverpool magistrates’ court was told Tuck, of Mollington Avenue, Norris Green, had been drinking after hearing the news of Drummer Rigby’s death on May 22. He tweeted the offensive messages over a number of hours on that day and in to May 23.

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Three charged for attack on elderly man walking to Islamic Centre

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Three men have been charged with grievous bodily harm following an attack on a elderly Muslim man on Saturday night. A fourth has been bailed by police pending further enquiries.

The three are Daniel Giles, 39, of Wendell Court, Uxbridge; Ryan Newman, 19, of Iris Court, Nursery Road, Pinner; and a 17 year-old who cannot be named for legal reasons. They appeared at Uxbridge Magistrates’ Court yesterday. All three were denied bail and remanded in custody to Isleworth Crown Court on Tuesday, July 23.

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Kirkcaldy Islamic Centre targeted with racist graffiti

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Kirkcaldy Islamic Centre graffiti

Extra police patrols are being sent out around a Muslim family centre in Kirkcaldy after it was targeted in a sickening hate crime.

Just hours before the start of Ramadan, the most holy festival in the Muslim calendar, anti-Islamic grafitti was spray painted on walls around the Kirkcaldy Islamic Centre in the town’s St Mary’s Road. And five vehicles belonging to members of the centre, where hundreds of Muslims go to pray as well as take part in many other community activities, were also targeted on Monday night. Crosses were painted on number plates, windows and on a bonnet.

Police in Kirkcaldy have put on extra patrols in the area and have spoken to the centre management about improving their security. And they have appealed to members of the public to report any information or suspicious behaviour in the area.

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EDL supporter who called for mosque to be burned down whinges he has ‘lost everything’

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Steven BallardA Facebook user who urged people to burn down Grimsby’s mosque – to put the town on the map “big time” – claims he has “lost everything”. Steven Ballard claimed he had lost his job, his girlfriend and his child because of the furore caused by his “menacing” comment. Ballard, 27, of Stainton Drive, Grimsby, admitted sending an offensive or menacing message on May 23.

Rebecca Dolby, prosecuting, told Grimsby magistrates that police searched an open group forum on Facebook linked to the Grimsby division of the English Defence League. Ballard posted a message at about 10pm following the murder of soldier Lee Rigby in Woolwich. It read: “Burn the mosque down the end of Legsby Avenue. That will tell the clowns in charge in this country that we ain’t taking this s*** and it will start a nationwide action going. Grimsby will be on the map big time then.”

He later told police there were Muslim communities in every town and city – and made reference to the recent police activity in Saxilby. He claimed Muslims had “got it easy” and that, “if they go to prison, they will get it easy”. Ballard claimed he was not racist and that he was not aware of damage caused to the mosque. He claimed that, if a Muslim were killed, he would have it on his conscience but insisted: “We are walked over.”

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Soldier’s ‘Muslim blood’ Facebook shame

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A volunteer soldier posted a comment on Facebook suggesting racist violent revenge should be taken on the day drummer Lee Rigby was murdered.

Mark Tonner wrote “Get the boys together we need to paint the town red with Muslim blood”. He was arrested after a member of the public complained on the Lancashire Police website about what Tonner had written.

Tonner, 36, of Ashton Road, Blackpool, pleaded guilty to sending an offensive message. He was bailed for pre-sentence reports and will be sentenced at a later date by Blackpool magistrates.

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