Reports and comment from Islamophobia Watch 4-10 August 2014

• Mehdi Hasan tells Wilderness Festival the ‘hysterical’ British press is encouraging Islamophobia  10 August 2014
• FBI targeted mentally disabled Muslim American citizens  10 August 2014
• Teens attack Sikh man, call him ‘Osama Bin Laden’ in Roosevelt Island hate crime  10 August 2014
• Christine Tasin convicted of hate crime  9 August 2014
• EDL try to attack Gaza protestors in Portsmouth  9 August 2014
• EDL receive ‘lukewarm reception’ in Batley  9 August 2014
• North West Infidels’ anti-mosque protest ‘should not have been allowed in residential area’, says councillor  8 August 2014
• Man accused of disrupting Ramadan at Brooklyn mosque  8 August 2014
• Dutch Jewish group dumps Wilders over Islam comments  8 August 2014
• Michigan man charged for attempting to pull off Muslim mom’s veil and cloak  8 August 2014
• EDL rally: Bishop Tony Robinson condemns English Defence League for stirring up divisions in Kirklees  8 August 2014
• Ellesmere Port ‘mosque’ subject to racist attack by alcoholic  8 August 2014
• Kansas GOP official Gavin Ellzey resigns over Muslim comments  8 August 2014
• Toddlers at risk of extremism, warns Education Secretary  8 August 2014
• Dearborn residents on terrorist watch list second only to New York, report says  8 August 2014
• Islam ‘does not belong in German society’ – poll  7 August 2014
• Peaceful vigil becomes noisy protest in Middlesbrough as EDL members arrived to ‘disrupt’ it  7 August 2014
• Douglas Murray on free speech – fine if you’re inciting hatred against Muslims, unacceptable if you’re condemning Israel’s war crimes  7 August 2014
• Pig’s head left on Islamic school site in Vienna  7 August 2014
• Abbott defends new anti-terrorism laws as Islamic groups warn of ‘witchhunt’  6 August 2014
• Little evidence of ‘Islamist extremism’ among UK charities  6 August 2014
• Tories ‘can afford to ignore Muslim vote’, Lynton Crosby advises  6 August 2014
• Yasmin Qureshi backs call for boycott of HSBC  5 August 2014
• Hundreds of police officers to be drafted in for English Defence League demo in Batley  4 August 2014
• Kahanist graffiti on Marseille mosque  4 August 2014
• Åkesson: ‘Islamism is the Nazism of our time’  4 August 2014

Reports and comment from Islamophobia Watch 28 July-3 August 2014

• Britain First continues campaign of harassment  3 August 2014
• Bolton: NWI anti-mosque protest meets counter-demonstration  2 August 2014
• Mirror stokes up Islamophobia with bogus anti-Muslim story  2 August 2014
• Rowan Williams says Islam makes positive contribution to society, ‘secularist’ groups disagree  2 August 2014
• Hatred, hysteria and a Trojan Horse  1 August 2014
• ‘Report it!’ victims of hate urged  1 August 2014
• HSBC closes Muslim groups’ accounts  30 July 2014
• American opinion of Arabs, Muslims is getting worse: poll  29 July 2014
• Are French Muslims integrated? Depends on what you mean by integration  29 July 2014
• Bensonhurst, Brooklyn: Hate crime cops investigating anti-Muslim fliers  29 July 2014
• Nazi graffiti on Muslim prayer room in Nièvre  29 July 2014
• UKIP councillor brands Jaloos ‘call to war’, links to Facebook page proposing ‘cull’ of Muslims  29 July 2014
• Anti-Semitic incidents, vandalism of mosques persist in Bulgaria – US state department report  29 July 2014
• ‘Trojan Horse’ inquiry: Clarke report based on uncorroborated smear, anecdote, hoax, chatroom gossip and neoconservative assumptions  29 July 2014
• Bolton: racists scrawl anti-Islamic graffiti on Ironman triathlon route  29 July 2014
• Joplin’s Muslims rejoice in mosque’s reopening  29 July 2014
• Muslim spitting incident: police release CCTV images of suspect  29 July 2014
• Kalgoorlie-Boulder council approves mosque during fiery meeting  29 July 2014
• Torygraph discovers ‘jihad on dogs’  29 July 2014
• Muslim school targeted by far right will open in September  28 July 2014
• Fury over ‘Muslim only’ rental advert as landlords fuel ghetto culture  28 July 2014
• Ofsted has ‘no plans’ to target inspections at Bradford over Trojan Horse row  28 July 2014
• Germany’s biggest tabloid attacks Islam  28 July 2014
• Israel now, Ireland next: Dublin embassy in propaganda pics storm  28 July 2014
• Anger as Islamic charity with Bradford base has its bank account shut down  28 July 2014
• Tension ahead of Kalgoorlie mosque debate  28 July 2014

Reports and comment from Islamophobia Watch 21-27 July 2014

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Reports and comment from Islamophobia Watch 14-20 July 2014

• Britain First ‘roadshow’ not going well  20 July 2014
• Another flop for the South East Alliance  19 July 2014
• French mosque site desecrated with pig’s head  19 July 2014
• Prisoners who ‘expressed deeply racist and anti-Muslim views’ sent letter bombs to solicitors  19 July 2014
• Iceland: MP leaves Progressive Party over handling of mosque issue  18 July 2014
• Anti-racism protesters organise demonstration as Britain First plan meeting in Swanley  18 July 2014
• City in Tarragona passes bylaw banning burqas and niqabs in public places  18 July 2014
• BNP links up with Infidels and NF in Bolton anti-mosque campaign  18 July 2014
• Muslim girl spat at and racially abused in Bristol city centre – and no one came to help  17 July 2014
• Wrexham EDL supporter told shop owner ‘I’m a racist and I kill Muslims’  17 July 2014
• Demonstrate against the South East Alliance in Cricklewood  17 July 2014
• Fine for man who called for terrorist attacks on mosques  17 July 2014
• Why banning Sharia courts would harm British Muslim women  17 July 2014
• Why I, as a Muslim, am launching a campaign to ban the burka in Britain  17 July 2014
• The terrorist that wasn’t  17 July 2014
• France suspends plans for Halal prison meals  16 July 2014
• Muslims tell of far-right group’s invasion of UK mosque  16 July 2014
• How Americans feel about religious groups  16 July 2014
• ‘Trojan Horse’ school trustees resign  15 July 2014
• Photographer Nicolo Degiorgis lifts the veil on Italy’s Islamophobia  15 July 2014
• East London school changes Ramadan fasting policy after complaints  15 July 2014
• Revealing report on anti-Muslim racism in Ireland  15 July 2014
• Police release CCTV image of Warrington mosque attack  14 July 2014
• Schools top source of police concern over radicalisation  14 July 2014
• If Cage has broken the law, let it be prosecuted; this reeks of the police state  14 July 2014
• More harassment and threats from Britain First fascists  14 July 2014
• Bendigo council joins anti-racism campaign  14 July 2014
• Victoria: tribunal rules in favour of mosque in Coolaroo  14 July 2014

Reports and comment from Islamophobia Watch 7-13 July 2014

• Police chief delivers rebuke to mosque protesters  13 July 2014
• Justin Welby warns of hysteria over threat of Muslim radicalisation  13 July 2014
• Trojan Horse scandal: Birmingham accuses Ofsted head of smear campaign  12 July 2014
• Legal challenge to French mayor’s ban of Muslim hijab on beach  12 July 2014
• Teenager arrested over alleged mosque threat on Facebook  12 July 2014
• When bigotry comes to your hometown  11 July 2014
• Vlaams Belang leader questioned about racist internet game  11 July 2014
• Austrian parliament rejects FPÖ proposal for ‘burqa ban’  10 July 2014
• ‘Trojan Horse affair fuels Islamophobia’ in Newham  10 July 2014
• Catalonia to push ahead with ‘burqa’ ban plans following ECHR ruling  10 July 2014
• Call for ban on far-right marches in Berwick-upon-Tweed  10 July 2014
• French mayor bans hijab from beach  9 July 2014
• Yasmin Qureshi MP: ‘Media publishing complete lies about Muslims’  9 July 2014
• CAIR-NY asks authorities to probe rash of anti-Muslim graffiti in Brooklyn neighborhood  9 July 2014
• ‘Mohammed Raghead’ – the name the FBI were giving to Muslim-American ‘Joe Bloggs’  9 July 2014
• EEOC sues Shadescrest Healthcare for religious discrimination and retaliation  9 July 2014
• Neo-Nazi Vikernes guilty of hate crime in France  8 July 2014
• Minister vows to fight hate crime against Muslims  8 July
• Police investigate racist attack at Warrington mosque  8 July 2014
• No-go areas in Leicester for Muslim women wearing niqab  8 July 2014
• Muslims gather to inaugurate new body to tackle Islamophobia  7 July 2014
• Islamist terror threat to west blown out of proportion – former MI6 chief  7 July 2014
• Lib Dem MP dismisses ‘Trojan Horse’ extremism claims  7 July 2014
• Burqa ban isn’t enough says Strache  7 July 2014

Reports and comment from Islamophobia Watch 30 June-6 July 2014

• Gove defends ‘liberal values’  6 July 2014
• Aryan blondes too beautiful for niqab, says FPÖ  6 July 2014
• Did Daily Mail incite ‘war against the corrupt west’?  6 July 2014
• UK report: Anti-Muslim hate crime rising  5 July 2014
• European Court of Human Rights ‘fails to protect religious freedom’  5 July 2014
• Times columnist thinks veil encourages terrorism  5 July 2014
• Dawkins finally loses the plot completely  5 July 2014
• Campaigners fear new surveillance powers in wake of Lee Rigby murder  5 July 2014
• UK Imam condemns full-face veil as an imported Saudi fad  4 July 2014
• Acevo head says perception of bias by Charity Commission damages Muslim organisations  4 July 2014
• Piggin detained under Mental Health Act  4 July 2014
• Angry protesters shout abuse as they storm out of Astley Bridge mosque planning meeting  4 July 2014
• Vile anti-Muslim abuse on social media must be tackled  4 July 2014
• New study reveals true extent of anti-Muslim abuse directed at veiled women  3 July 2014
• Police investigating after Britain First go to two Gillingham mosques objecting to a planning application for a new place of worship  3 July 2014
• Fresh police appeal in Hull imam attack  3 July 2014
• Mosque opponents to take fight to Victoria’s highest court with help of right wing extremists  3 July 2014
• Philip Hollobone MP calls for British ban on face veil  3 July 2014
• Ohio Muslim sues Islamophobes  2 July 2014
• Maidstone: Tory candidate kicked out of party over BNP ‘No More Mosques’ Facebook post  2 July 2014
• Racist graffiti man who sprayed ‘EDL’ on Blackburn properties walks free  2 July 2014
• SDL supporter who threatened arson attack on Edinburgh Central Mosque is fined and told to read a book  2 July 2014
• ECHR ruling inspires FPÖ proposal for ‘burqa’ ban  2 July 2014
• Denmark may enact French ‘burqa ban’  2 July 2014
• Norway braced for new ‘burqa ban’ debate  2 July 2014
• Far Right rally fears grow  2 July 2014
• Defend Muslims from mosque invasions – No to Britain First  2 July 2014
• Lord Macdonald condemns Cameron’s ‘cack-handed’ review of the Muslim Brotherhood  2 July 2014
• Study: Muslims hate terrorism, too  2 July 2014
• European Court of Human Rights upholds French ban on full-face veils  1 July 2014
• Katie Hopkins’ ignorant Ramadan tweets  30 June 2014
• Second far-right protest against planned Bolton mosque  30 June 2014
• Vandals attack historic Polish mosque  30 June 2014

Reports and comment from Islamophobia Watch 23-29 June 2014

• Another lying anti-Muslim headline in the Mail  29 June 2014
• Women targeted in rising tide of attacks on Muslims  29 June 2014
• Radio star dropped for calling Prophet Muhammad a paedophile  29 June 2014
• EDL march meets counter demonstration in Middlesbrough  28 June 2014
• New York: Man shouting ‘Go back to your (expletive) country’ stabs Muslim food cart vendor  27 June 2014
• Trojan Horse: Investigations slammed as ‘provocative’ at Birmingham public meeting  27 June 2014
• Bendigo mosque a cause celebre for right-wing outsiders  27 June 2014
• Hampstead School governors reject students’ proposal to extend right to religious clothing  27 June 2014
• Battle over Bendigo: fear and bruised feelings in city that said yes to a mosque  27 June 2014
• 9/11 Museum board member Debra Burlingame to be honored by anti-Islam hate group  27 June 2014
• France: the need for a united fight against the fascists  27 June 2014
• German princess ranted about killing Muslims at St Andrews beer festival  26 June 2014
• The truth behind the spin of Dawkins  26 June 2014
• Revealed: The secretive Q Society’s battle against Islam  26 June 2014
• Stop saying ‘moderate Muslims’. You’re only empowering Islamophobes  26 June 2014
• Can we please not defend white supremacists?  26 June 2014
• Putting Birmingham School Kids First hold meeting to refute ‘Trojan horse’ witch-hunt  26 June 2014
• French high court upholds firing over head scarf  26 June 2014
• ‘Trojan horse’ witch-hunt: letters to the Guardian  26 June 2014
• Myriam Francois-Cerrah on extremists and conservatism  25 June 2014
• The Bendigo Mosque: exporting hate to regional Victoria  25 June 2014
• US Muslims hail ‘no-fly’ list ruling  25 June 2014
• Le Pen and Wilders fail to form anti-EU bloc  24 June 2014
• Rainbow balloons torn down at Bendigo shop  24 June 2014
• Anti-Islamic and right wing groups driving Bendigo anti-mosque push  23 June 2014
• Reading, writing and allegations: Muslim school at center of debate  23 June 2014
• Spite club: Race-hate group who target Muslims organise street fighting sessions to train recruits  23 June 2014
• Police called to hate event at Minnesota school after ‘mob’ harasses Muslim woman  23 June 2014
• Guildford Four: Muslims ‘could face repeat’ of IRA bomb miscarriage of justice  23 June 2014
• UK ‘mosque-buster’ advising Bendigo residents opposed to Islamic centre  23 June 2014
• Far-right election success in Europe: meeting at London Muslim Centre this evening  23 June 2014

Reports and comment from Islamophobia Watch 16-22 June 2014

• Former FPÖ deputy convicted of inciting religious and racial hatred  22 June 2014
• Georgia congressional candidate says Islam ‘does not deserve First Amendment protection’  22 June 2014
• Q Society spreading anti-mosque message in Bendigo  22 June 2014
• Who will the Gerry Conlons of the future count on?  22 June 2014
• Queensland: 250 people heckle councillor over proposal to build mosque  22 June 2014
• Bendigo: rainbow balloons fly in support of diversity  22 June 2014
• ‘Tyrant’ stereotyping worries US Muslims  21 June 2014
• Derisory turnout for Bolton anti-mosque protest: fascists outnumbered by counter-demonstrators  21 June 2014
• Max Hastings explains the problems of the Muslim world  21 June 2014
• Bendigo councillor stands by anti-Islam comments  21 June 2014
• Dawkins joins far right in denouncing prison sentences for SDL hooligans  21 June 2014
• Wooden cross hung at mosque in Bulgaria  20 June 2014
• Scottish Defence League supporters locked up for attacking mosque with bacon  20 June 2014
• Bendigo mosque: Black balloons hung outside councillor’s house  20 June 2014
• More anti-mosque hysteria in Bolton  20 June 2014
• Murfreesboro mosque opponents suffer another defeat  20 June 2014
• Reykjavík councillor disavows Islamophobes  19 June 2014
• Stop Islamiseringen af Danmark banned from protesting at Copenhagen mosque opening  19 June 2014
• Bendigo mosque approved amid local protest  19 June 2014
• Britain First: inside the extremist group targeting mosques  19 June 2014
• Paris protest: campaigners demand repeal of Chatel circular  19 June 2014
• Seventh OIC Annual Report on Islamophobia released  18 June 2014
• Woman killed in attack may have been targeted because of Muslim dress, say police  18 June 2014
• Muslim leaders demand action over fascist mosque invasions  18 June 2014
• Why we shouldn’t be surprised by Heritage Foundation event’s Islamophobia  18 June 2014
• Benoit Assou-Ekotto condemns racism and Islamophobia in France  18 June 2014
• Ex-Birmingham chief: Trojan Horse designed to stir antagonism  17 June 2014
• Park View School vice principal: We did not tolerate extremist views  17 June 2014
• Douglas Murray links up with Christian fundamentalist homophobe to smear Newham ‘mega-mosque’ supporters  17 June 2014
• Great resume, too bad about your religion  17 June 2014
• Park View School governor accuses Michael Gove of ‘demonising communities’  17 June 2014
• Lessons of Birmingham schools witch-hunt  17 June 2014
• Politicians and royals steering clear of Copenhagen mosque opening  16 June 2014
• New York man arrested over death threats against CAIR  16 June 2014
• Anti-Islamic group behind black balloons stunt in Bendigo  16 June 2014
• Far right campaigns to ‘ban the burka’ … in Berwick-upon-Tweed  16 June 2014
• Philadelphia Muslim sues Whole Foods claiming religious discrimination  16 June 2014

Reports and comment from Islamophobia Watch 9-15 June 2014

• Trojan Horse plot driven by same ‘warped’ Islamic extremism as Boko Haram, says Tony Blair  15 June 2014
• Cameron calls for promotion of ‘British values’  15 June 2014
• Bikers ditch anti-Muslim rally in Dearborn, called ‘a bunch of stinkin’ cowards,’ by Terry Jones  14 June 2014
• Fascists sent packing in Cricklewood  14 June 2014
• Sharia expert warns of threat from Islam following ‘Trojan Horse’ inquiry  14 June 2014
• An open letter to Student Rights  14 June 2014
• New Jersey mosque plan prompts usual anti-Islam backlash  13 June 2014
• When is terrorism not terrorism?  13 June 2014
• Hijab ban threatens basketball phenom  13 June 2014
• Guardian columnist asks: Did notorious racist have a point after all?  13 June 2014
• UAF national conference tomorrow  13 June 2014
• Molotov cocktails thrown at mosque in Crimea  13 June 2014
• Gove and Ofsted: hypocrisy and double standards  13 June 2014
• Protest rally staged in Bulgaria capital against returning properties to Grand Mufti’s Office  13 June 2014
• A Muslim reporter’s icy welcome from Texas GOP: ‘Where are you from?’  13 June 2014
• Qur’ans burned in front of Dearborn mosque  13 June 2014
• Man forces his way into home, terrorizes family from Iraq  12 June 2014
• Virginia church offends Muslims with pamphlet that says they’re going to hell, need Jesus Christ  12 June 2014
• In the so-called ‘Trojan horse’ debacle, Birmingham schools have become Gove’s sacrificial lamb  12 June 2014
• Spectator disgraces itself with Islamophobic cover  12 June 2014
• Allison Pearson thinks she’s culturally superior to Muslims  12 June 2014
• Bradford school drawn into Islam row as reports surface of gender segregation  11 June 2014
• Michael Gove’s toxic assault on schools is based on naked discrimination  11 June 2014
• CAIR hits back at Geller’s hate-ads  11 June 2014
• Lutfur Rahman appeals to Labour for unity in Tower Hamlets  11 June 2014
• Middlesbrough EDL march: Police warn criminal behaviour will be dealt with ‘robustly’  11 June 2014
• Olive Tree Primary School: chair of governors responds to Ofsted stitch-up  11 June 2014
• ‘Mega Mosque’ public inquiry for West Ham site starts at ExCel Centre  11 June 2014
• Religious leaders slam anti-Muslim bus ads  11 June 2014
• Icelanders registering as protest Muslims  11 June 2014
• Witch-hunt against Muslims in Birmingham – Get racist Tories out of schools  11 June 2014
• Czech president refuses to apologise for anti-Islam comments  10 June 2014
• ‘Inventing Terrorists’ study offers critical examination of government’s use of preemptive prosecutions  10 June 2014
• South East Alliance to hold protest against Muslim Brotherhood in Cricklewood  10 June 2014
• Baroness Warsi at odds with Michael Gove over extremism claims in school  10 June 2014
• Luton Islamic school found ‘inadequate’ blames ‘a right extremist, Michael Gove, whipping up racist hysteria and Ofsted dancing to his poisonous tune’  9 June 2014
• MCB responds to ‘Trojan Horse’ witch-hunt  9 June 2014
• Jim Fitzpatrick exploits ‘Trojan Horse’ witch-hunt to claim ‘Islamist plot’ in Tower Hamlets  9 June 2014
• Unite Against Fascism conference this Saturday  9 June 2014
• Ofsted’s slur on the Muslim community of Park View School  9 June 2014
• Gove’s witch-hunt comes to Luton  9 June 2014
• Faith groups to protest Geller ads  9 June 2014
• Queens man charged in firebombing of mosque found fit to stand trial  9 June 2014
• ‘The problem here is the knee-jerk actions of some politicians’ – Park View Educational Trust responds to Gove’s ‘Trojan Horse’ witch-hunt  9 June 2014
• Oldknow Academy replies to Sunday Times smears  9 June 2014

Reports and comment from Islamophobia Watch 2-8 June 2014

• Is the Trojan horse row just a witch hunt triggered by a hoax?  8 June 2014
• The return of halal hysteria  8 June 2014
• Thousands march against racism in Belfast  7 June 2014
• Park View Academy hits back in Trojan horse row  7 June 2014
• Michael Gove book offers clue to Trojan horse row and his views on Islamism  6 June 2014
• The Godfather  6 June 2014
• Racist graffiti outside London primary school: Mother reacts furiously to media coverage  6 June 2014
• Progressive Christians should take on the Christian right  6 June 2014
• Belfast preacher who denounced Islam as evil issues apology  6 June 2014
• Stevenage pub withdraws from hosting EDL members before march  6 June 2014
• The Economist defends right to incite religious hatred  6 June 2014
• EDL thug Dean Kenney admits part in Birmingham riot  6 June 2014
• Reykjavík: Anti-Muslim rhetoric brings gains to Progressives  5 June 2014
• Naming the narratives: The Trojan Horse affair in Birmingham  5 June 2014
• Statement from Park View Educational Trust on Golden Hillock School  5 June 2014
• On anti-Semitism and Islamophobia in Europe  5 June 2014
• Muslim Association of Iceland to sue over online hate speech  5 June 2014
• How the right exploits Christianity and secularism to attack Muslims  5 June 2014
• Virginia: Muslim community disappointed with charges after man assaulted on train  5 June 2014
• Bowe Bergdahl and the resurgence of conservative Islamophobia  5 June 2014
• Michael Gove accused of using ‘Trojan Horse’ row to push anti-Islam agenda  4 June 2014
• Tories admit convicted racists into European parliamentary group  4 June 2014
• Thug who smashed elderly Muslim man’s skull in Uxbridge racist attack has sentence cut  4 June 2014
• When did Michael Gove become the government’s expert on Muslims or extremism?  4 June 2014
• Murfreesboro mosque fight laid to rest after Supreme Court ruling  3 June 2014
• Education experts voice fury over Ofsted’s ‘Trojan Horse’ schools inquiry  3 June 2014
• Islam row: Peter Robinson makes public apology for causing offence to Muslims after meeting in Belfast  3 June 2014
• The government review into the Muslim Brotherhood in Britain: Unravelling the motives  3 June 2014
• Reykjavík: final preparations for mosque construction underway  2 June 2014
• Texas school board official sorry for freaking out about Muslim getting elected as her colleague  2 June 2014
• Pakistani man vows to flee Northern Ireland after race-hate attacks, blaming anti-Islamic atmosphere  2 June 2014
• Bradford’s acting bishop denounces far-right swoop on mosques  2 June 2014