The Muslim community of North East Lincolnshire opened the doors of their Mosque this evening to say thank you for the “overwhelming support” they have received following recent attacks. Around 60 people gathered at the Weelsby Road centre and vowed it was the start of a more united community between all faiths.
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Facebook user called on supporters to ‘target’ Grimsby mosque
A hate-filled Facebook user posted racist abuse and insults – and called for supporters to “target” a Grimsby mosque because it “wants burning”.
Matthew Tyson claimed the mosque had got his “blood boiling”, a court heard. The father-of-two’s comments were made in the days following the horrific murder of soldier Lee Rigby, in London.
Tyson, 23, insisted he and others were not racists but “patriotic racists”, claiming he had “always hated” the people he was writing about – and that this was a chance for him and others to get their town “heard”. The comments were spotted by the police and he ended up in court – where he said: “I have never felt such an idiot in my life.”
Tyson, of Rosemary Avenue, Grimsby, admitted sending an offensive or menacing message between May 22 and 25 – just days before Grimsby’s mosque was set on fire. In the wake of that attack, the police issued warnings to people using social networking websites that they were being monitored.
Rebecca Dolby, prosecuting, told Grimsby magistrates that Tyson posted messages on a Facebook forum shortly after Drummer Rigby was attacked by two men near the Royal Artillery Barracks, in Woolwich, on May 22. Tyson’s comments included: “What if we do beat **** out of them? It’s all of us people on this page that gets our town and names heard and show the ******* what true British is. I will show them how much us Brits want the scumbags out.”
The comments included a reference to the Grimsby Islamic Cultural Centre, on Weelsby Road, Grimsby. It read: “Target that place for start. A British church into a mosque. Now that’s got my blood boiling.” This was a reference to the fact that the mosque was on the site of the former Weelsby Road Methodist Church, said Miss Dolby. Tyson also wrote: “That’s all they say to me too, mate – you racist. No, we ain’t racist. We’re patriotic racists. The place needs burning. I’ll go under cover down Weelsby mosque. LMAO.”
Tyson later told police he used strong words because he “wanted to express” himself but he claimed he did not want anyone to “go out and do anything”. He claimed: “I’m not a racist” but insisted he was glad he had expressed his feelings. “I was angry,” he said. He was not a member of the English Defence League but was “against Muslim extremists”, he added.
EDL member jailed for threatening Muslims with ‘insane violence’
A boxer who threatened Muslims with acts of “insane violence” on Facebook on the day Drummer Lee Rigby was hacked to death was jailed for four months today (Weds).
Tony Perrin, 28, was arrested close to his south London home after he posted his vile threats with a photo of himself wearing a balaclava and pointing a gun at the camera.
Fifth arson arrest over Darul Uloom School fire
A fifth teenager has been arrested by police investigating the suspected arson attack on an Islamic school in south-east London. About 128 pupils and staff were evacuated from Darul Uloom, a boarding school in Foxbury Avenue, Chislehurst, on Saturday.
Police said an 18-year-old man was arrested in Greenwich on Tuesday. He and the other four teenagers arrested on suspicion of arson are bailed to return to police in August. The investigation into the circumstances of the fire continues.
‘Cabbie slasher’ Michael Enright pleads guilty to Muslim hate attack
Crazed film student Michael Enright pleaded guilty Tuesday to slicing the throat of a Muslim cab driver in a hate-fueled 2010 attack, with the promise of a 9½-year sentence.
A stone-faced Enright, 24, pleaded guilty to attempted murder and assault as hate crimes for the shocking attack on Ahmed Sharif, a Bangladeshi father of four, who picked up his would-be killer at E. 24th and Second Ave. on the evening of Aug. 24, 2010.
The boozed-up former School of Visual Arts student insulted Sharif’s religion, then lunged into the front seat with a knife and started hacking away at the driver’s neck. He also cut the cabbie’s face, arms and hands, prosecutors said.
Bricklayer attacked mosque in ‘revenge’, court told
A man who attacked a mosque after the killing of soldier Lee Rigby has pleaded guilty to racially or religiously aggravated criminal damage.
Michael Manyweathers, 49, and three other men used a plank to smash windows at the Dorset Islamic Cultural Centre in Poole, on May 23.
For the Crown, Charles Nightingale told Bournemouth Magistrate’s Court that before attacking the Ashley Road mosque, the group had been drinking in a pub and working each other up over the murder in Woolwich the day before.
Islamic centre fire was arson attack, police confirm
The fire that destroyed an Islamic community centre in Muswell Hill last week was the result of arson, police have confirmed.
Fire crews were called to the blaze at the the Bravanese Centre in Coppetts Road – which houses the Somali Bravanese Welfare Association – in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
Officers investigating the scene discovered the letters “EDL” (the initials of the far-right anti-Islam group, the English Defence League) had been sprayed on the side of the centre. It is feared the fire was in retaliation for murder of Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich last month.
Counter-terrorism police investigating the fire have been treating it “suspicious” but today Borough Commander Adrian Usher confirmed that the inferno was the result of an arson attack.
After attacks on mosques and schools, British Muslims say, ‘We’re stronger together
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Thug tries to snatch Muslim woman’s veil
Police are searching for a cyclist who tried to pull a Muslim woman’s face veil off as he rode past her. The woman was targeted as she walked with her family to Leicester’s Victoria Park.
English Defence League leader condemns attacks on Muslims
The leader of the English Defence League has said he “utterly condemns” attacks on Muslims.
Tommy Robinson denied claims his group had firebombed an Islamic community centre in London, where the letters EDL were sprayed on the building. He told the BBC the graffiti could have been placed there to make it look as if the group was responsible.
Mr Robinson told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that he condemned all acts of violence by EDL members and the group was about peaceful protest.
He denied his group was behind the blaze in Muswell Hill last week. “If something was set fire and someone wrote David Cameron on the side of it, does it mean he did it?” he said. “If I’m honest, I’m completely sceptical that it is even non-Muslims that have done that.”