Police were called to a BNP rally outside an Islamic community centre in St Helens. Members of the far-right group held banners and handed out leaflets outside the Iman Trust’s base on Elton Head Road, Sutton, last Monday (June 3).
The decision by the group to picket the centre has prompted concern among the wider community. Council leader Barrie Grunewald among those condemning the protest.
Hundreds of Anti-Islam protestors descended on Lincoln city centre on Saturday. Echo reporter Mark Williams walked with the demonstrators to discover how far they would go to make their point heard…
Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse an angry crowd in a town on the outskirts of Paris where clashes erupted on Wednesday night after they questioned a woman wearing a full facial veil, which is banned in France.
A police source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the trouble started when police stopped a 25-year-old woman in the centre of Argenteuil, a suburb north-west of Paris, who was wearing a full-face Muslim veil, or niqab.
UAF is urging members and supporters to complain to the BBC after Tommy Robinson, leader of the English Defence League, was interviewed on Radio 4’s flagship Today programme on Tuesday 11 June.
On the programme Robinson admitted that the organisation has “completely questionable” tactics and went on to say “it’s not going to end pretty”, although none of this was sufficiently challenged.
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.
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.
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A Republican congressman claimed on the House floor on Tuesday that members of Muslim communities in the United States have not condemned acts of Islamic extremist terrorism against the U.S. and therefore are complicit in those and any future attacks.
Fears of heightened community tensions following fires at two London faith buildings have triggered police to step up patrols around East End mosques.
Met chiefs announced a 24-hour surveillance around “at risk” sites last week. And marked police cars have been patrolling the area around the East London Mosque complex in Whitechapel Road, with the help of volunteers. The move follows last week’s fires at a community centre in Muswell Hill, north London, and an Islamic boarding school in Chislehurst, south east London.
Socialist Worker reports.
Six Islamic extremists have been jailed for plotting a bloody terror attack on a right-wing march.
Meanwhile, four teenagers believed to have set a Muslim school on fire while 128 children and staff slept inside are being held on suspicious of arson.
Two terrible crimes about which we should all be concerned.
But maybe what should worry us even more is the language used to describe them.The one committed by the Islamists is regarded as terrorism. The one committed ON an Islamic target is… well, it’s just a crime.
Why? You tell me.
Bill Leckie in the Scottish Sun, 11 June 2013
Via ENGAGE