As we noted in our report of the jailing of Geoffrey Ryan over an attack on the Al Falah Islamic Centre in Braintree, he is an admirer of Bonni Benstock-Install, the crazed Islamophobe who runs the Bare Naked Islam blog. It appears that this admiration is reciprocated.
EDL News reports that Darren Bird, a Wolverhampton-based supporter of the self-styled “non-violent” English Defence League, has posted threats to kill Muslims on his Facebook page.
Bird wrote: “Its a good day for a Mussie to die, even better day because I feel like doing it.” He added: “Someone has to start the war.. I aint offering, I just aint waiting to be asked. Some fucker is getting it today.” EDL News has passed the screenshot to West Midlands Police.
Bear in mind that Bird is among the thugs who are proposing to march through Tower Hamlets next month.
The Mayor of Tower Hamlets, Lutfur Rahman, along with dozens of other MPs and community leaders are calling on the Home Office to ban a planned march by the English Defence League, organised to take place on September 7 in Tower Hamlets.
Those calling for the ban, who have signed an open letter sent to the Guardian newspaper today, include former Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, leader of Unite the Union, Len McCluskey, former cabinet minister Clare Short and MP and Chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee, Keith Vaz.
Faith groups including the Islamic Forum of Europe and Tower Hamlets Interfaith Forum have also signed the letter. There is particular concern that the EDL have openly declared they will target the East London Mosque.
Residents fear there may be “blood spilt on our doorsteps” as a row over charity football matches culminates in a planned English Defence League (EDL) protest on Bank Holiday Monday.
The far-right group say it is “unfair and hypocritical” that Goals 4 Gaza is allowed to take place at Play Football in Stopsley when their fundraising tournament for a young girl in July was cancelled. Worried Stopsley residents contacted the Luton News after receiving leaflets from the Safer Neighbourhood Team advising them of the demo.
A St Thomas’s Road resident who did not wish to be named said: “I am absolutely horrified that a march is taking place in such a small peaceful community and in such a small road. It’s crazy. If trouble kicks off, it could be terrible for the residents. We don’t want blood spilt on our doorsteps. We just want a peaceful Bank Holiday.”
Two leaders of the English Defence League (EDL) have been charged with obstructing police officers in east London. The men allegedly tried to defy a ban on marching to the scene of the murder of soldier Lee Rigby via a major mosque.
Tommy Robinson, 30, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court earlier. His co-leader Kevin Carroll was also charged after answering police bail. Both men are due to appear at the same court on 11 September.
They were arrested on suspicion of obstructing officers outside Aldgate East Tube station on 29 June. The pair, both from Luton, were attempting to stage what they claimed was a charity walk to Woolwich Barracks in south-east London via the East London Mosque, in breach of police restrictions put in place to avoid “serious public disorder and serious disruption to the life of the community”.
A man launched a smoke grenade into a mosque and threatened to kill Muslims after he “snapped” following his brother’s death. Geoffrey Ryan, 44, approached the Al-Falah Braintree Islamic Centre, in Silks Way, Braintree, armed with two knives on the evening of May 22.
He was jailed for nine months on Monday after admitting two charges of having a bladed object in a public place and one charge of affray.
The Hull Daily Mail reports that four men have been charged with various offences after they were arrested in connection with Saturday’s English Defence League march in the city.
A 46-year-old Derbyshire man was charged with assault causing actual bodily harm after a man was attacked in the city centre. A 46-year-old man from Mansfield has been charged with using threatening words or behaviour after police broke up a scuffle. He is also accused of possessing a Class A drug. Another man, who is 43 and from West Yorkshire, was charged with being drunk and disorderly and possessing a Class B drug. Police also arrested a 52-year-old man from Essex who has been charged with using threatening words or behaviour.
The four men have been bailed on condition that they must not come back to Hull or meet in groups of more than five people until they appear at Hull Magistrates’ Court next month.
English Defence League protesting outside the Skegness abattoir last month
Speculation regarding the possible closure of a Skegness abattoir has been circulating the town after several notices from a bailiff company were seen pinned on the building.
However, a member of management for the halal slaughterhouse has claimed business will be “back to normal” tomorrow. “There was a dispute with the landlord. It’s all sorted now; we will be working and back on Wednesday,” said Mr Patel for Premier Halal Ltd.
Nearly half of those held under Schedule 7 of UK’s terrorism laws are of Asian or Asian British origin, Imran Awan points out.
The leader of a fascist group has said there will be another protest. Mickey Bayliss [pictured], the English Defence League’s regional organiser for the south west, has announced another march against a Muslim school will take place in Portsmouth.
The call for a second protest comes after Mr Bayliss was unhappy with what Portsmouth City Council leader, Councillor Gerald Vernon-Jackson, said after the weekend’s protest. Cllr Vernon-Jackson said it was unacceptable that fireworks were thrown during a supposedly peaceful protest.
Mr Bayliss said: “The council cannot not tell us what we can or cannot do. We have the freedom to do what we want and we will be holding another march this weekend. We will not be announcing when or where and we will not be co-ordinating with the police. The march will be against the Madani Academy again as well as the council.”