Reports and comment from Islamophobia Watch 24 February-2 March 2014

• UKIP roared with laughter at ‘comedian’ who told ‘jokes’ about Muslims and East Europeans  2 March 2014
• St. Paul police now allow employees to wear hijab  2 March 2014
• Another scaremongering headline from the Daily Star  2 March 2014
• Hundreds protest outside police headquarters after Moazzam Begg charged  1 March 2014
• Meet the wacky conspiracy theorist offering ‘counterterrorism’ training to officers in Virginia  1 March 2014
• FIFA lifts ban on head covers  1 March 2014
• Football fan ripped up pages of the Koran while telling steward at away game ‘we hate Muslims’  28 February 2014
• Scottish Defence League member jailed over mosque arson threat  28 February 2014
• CAIR-AZ condemns ADL’s stereotyping of Muslims in Bill 1062 debate  28 February 2014
• Kingston students become fifth to officially condemn ‘Student Rights’ group  28 February 2014
• UKIP tries to remove journalists from fringe meeting on sharia law  28 February 2014
• Conservative MP calls for public veil ban  28 February 2014
• Islamophobia row Tory kicked out of party  28 February 2014
• CAIR asks Florida university to cancel event featuring Jonathan Matusitz  28 February 2014
• Arson attack on Stevenage Central Mosque  27 February 2014
• Nine men in court over rioting at Birmingham EDL demo  27 February 2014
• Belgian Jewish organisation condemns ‘obsession with the Muslim headscarf’  27 February 2014
• Legoland cancels private Muslim event after receiving threats  26 February 2014
• Neath mosque attack: Steven Davies jailed for 22 months  26 February 2014
• U.S. hate groups in decline as radical ideas go mainstream  26 February 2014
• Nine in court over EDL riot in Birmingham city centre  25 February 2014
• Anti-mosque graffiti in Dordogne  25 February 2014
• EDL anti-mosque protest in Grantham  24 February 2014

Reports and comment from Islamophobia Watch 10-16 February 2014

• ‘Moderate Muslim’ wants family fun day cancelled  16 February 2014
• US religious freedom rep funded by Islamophobes  15 February 2014
• Quebec halal butchers vandalised and shot at  15 February 2014
• Outrage at hate threat to ‘burn’ planned Cambridge mosque as city shows its support for the £17m project  15 February 2014
• Anti-Islamic mob of ‘football fans’ smashes windows of Plovdiv mosque  14 February 2014
• Islamophobia in Pocatello, Idaho  14 February 2014
• Another French mosque desecrated  14 February 2014
• Bloodworth embraces the HJS  13 February 2014
• Red Cross doctor in Austria rejects blood donations from Muslims  13 February 2014
• Police investigate hate comments on Legoland Facebook page  13 February 2014
• Cambridge News discovers ancient anti-mosque petition  13 February 2014
• EDL member gets community order and curfew for anti-Muslim hate crime  12 February 2014
• EDL resists Islamification of Legoland  12 February 2014
• French firm bans Muslim headscarves at work  12 February 2014
• Labour councillor claims anti-EDL protest will ‘create a battleground on the streets of Grantham’  11 February 2014
• Jewish Federation of Nashville accidentally distributes anti-Muslim pamphlet to school students  10 February 2014
• Swiss voters back limit on immigration  10 February 2014

Reports and comment from Islamophobia Watch 3-9 February 2014

• Quilliam intent on maintaining close relations with former EDL leaders  9 February 2014
• Man charged with hate crime at football match  8 February 2014
• Huge turnout in Plovdiv for protest against Muslim court claims on property  8 February 2014
• Staffing agency says no job for teenager ‘if she wears a headscarf’  7 February 2014
• EDL to protest in Grantham against Islamic centre plan  7 February 2014
• Quebec’s politicians present spineless spectacle over ‘charter of values’ debate  7 February 2014
• MYH study of young British Muslims and dissent  6 February 2014
• Ukip MEP who supported Muslim code of conduct urged halal slaughter ban  5 February 2014
• Drunken recluse threatened to bomb a mosque and wanted to see Muslims ‘hanging in the street’  5 February 2014
• Tory MP says Ukip politician’s call for Muslim code of conduct is frightening  5 February 2014
• Right-wing blogger ‘exposes’ sinister Muslim immigration plot in Coke’s Super Bowl ad  5 February 2014
• Why Sochi has no mosques  5 February 2014
• New Jersey woman says bosses ordered her to remove hijab  5 February 2014
• Florida girl attacked after wearing hijab to school  5 February 2014
• Ukip MEP says British Muslims should sign charter rejecting violence  4 February 2014
• Bacon and hate graffiti at California mosque  4 February 2014
• Lega Nord denounces plan for Islamic museum in Venice  4 February 2014
• Highly qualified Muslim immigrants face employment discrimination  4 February 2014
• Why we are suing the Prime Minister’s Office  4 February 2014
• Six youths in court over harassment of worshippers at mosque  3 February 2014
• Sikhs Against Sharia exposed  3 February 2014
• East London Mosque condemns ‘Christian Patrols’ provocation  3 February 2014
• How Quilliam used former EDL leaders to appeal for money  3 February 2014
• Two mosques in Amiens targeted with far-right graffiti  3 February 2014

Reports and comment from Islamophobia Watch 27 January-2 February 2014

• Anti-Islamic group moves to stop mosque in Ballarat, Victoria  2 February 2014
• CPS is ignoring racist motivation in murder and manslaughter cases, says damning report  2 February 2014
• Far-right groupuscule engages in stupid provocation in Whitechapel  2 February 2014
• Swiss Islamophobes use ‘mass immigration’ referendum to push anti-Muslim line  2 February 2014
• France: Mosques in Vandoeuvre and Pontarlier are attacked, while Islamophobic incidents continue to rise  2 February 2014
• Danny Lockwood threatens Islamophobia Watch, but thankfully only with libel action – he’s not proposing to headbutt us  2 February 2014
• EDL demonstrator who shouted racist abuse in Farnworth loses appeal  1 February 2014
• Father jailed over Walsall EDL rally violence  1 February 2014
• Montreal metro death leads to outburst of anti-Muslim hatred  1 February 2014
• SDL member posted Facebook call for arson attack on Edinburgh Central Mosque  31 January 2014
• Judge orders NYPD to begin turning over Muslim spying documents  31 January 2014
• Dansk Folkeparti leaders divided over whether to restrict Muslim immigration or ban it completely  30 January 2014
• Maajid Nawaz, free speech and the hypocrisy of Quilliam  30 January 2014
• Murfreesboro Islamic Center is potential source of ‘locally generated terrorist attacks’, opponents claim  30 January 2014
• Harlow man charged over mosque bomb threat  30 January 2014
• Anti-Quilliam protest at Plymouth University  29 January 2014
• Asian Christian ‘stabbed as revenge for Lee Rigby’, then ignored by police  29 January 2014
• ‘Let them go to Saudi … we are not a dumping ground’ – Kevin Carroll condemns decision to accept Syrian refugees  29 January 2014
• Islamophobes’ legal bid to stop planned mosque in Cambridge because it could be ‘front for terrorism’  29 January 2014
• New Jersey: Police officer who posted racist Facebook threat against Obama will keep job  28 January 2014
• Six teens charged with race attacks at Sandwell mosque  28 January 2014
• No show by EVF at Croydon Islamic centre  27 January 2014
• Geller and Spencer booked for Australian visit  27 January 2014

Reports and comment from Islamophobia Watch 20-26 January 2014

• Police closing in on Birmingham EDL riot suspects  26 January 2014
• Kevin Carroll backs leader of violent racist campaign against Rohingya Muslims  25 January 2014
• Republican Congressman regrets that religious freedom allows Muslims to build cemetery  25 January 2014
• Mosque plan at school site abandoned due to parent fears  25 January 2014
• Derby pizza chain’s Facebook page is sabotaged in Halal ‘hate crime’  24 January 2014
• Bloc Identitaire supporter in court over anti-Islam graffiti  24 January 2014
• MP says EDL not welcome in Slough  24 January 2014
• EDL member nailed Qur’an to pub wall in protest against Islamic centre plan  24 January 2014
• Moscow Muslims condemn warning about terrorists in mosques  23 January 2014
• EDL Birmingham protest wanted pics released  22 January 2014
• Judge tosses suit against Muslim group over speech  22 January 2014
• Police alerted to threats against Croydon Islamic centre  22 January 2014
• Judge warns jury of wrongful prejudice over defendant’s Muslim face veil  22 January 2014
• JIMAS to press ahead with HMD event featuring former EDL leader  22 January 2014
• Feds indict Klansman who designed radiation gun to kill Muslims  22 January 2014
• Enfield councillor suspended by Tory Party pending investigation by national decision board over ‘anti-Islamic’ Facebook taunts  21 January 2014
• Residents living near new Lincoln mosque site invited to dispel misconceptions about Islam  21 January 2014
• Fascists target mosque in Croydon  21 January 2014
• New review of threats to Sweden’s mosques  21 January 2014
• Middlesbrough fan arrested over ripping up pages of Qur’an  21 January 2014
• Court upholds UK ban on Geller and Spencer  20 January 2014
• Spike in anti-Muslim hate crimes recorded in Cambridge area last year  20 January 2014

Reports and comment from Islamophobia Watch 13-19 January 2014

• Family at Charter hearings describes being ‘marked’ by Muslim customs  19 January 2014
• Police to screen EDL rally footage on Crimewatch in fresh appeal to trace 100 thugs  19 January 2014
• EDL founder scraps school tour  19 January 2014
• Britain First anti-Brotherhood protest outnumbered by counter-demonstrators  18 January 2014
• Lincoln: Far-right protestors chant ‘burn the poppy we will burn the mosque’  18 January 2014
• Alabama board OKs 11 textbooks after complaints they favored Islam  18 January 2014
• Former EDL leader to speak at Holocaust Memorial Day event  17 January 2014
• Support for Lincoln anti-racism rally, despite far right disruptions  17 January 2014
• South Carolina: Man pleads guilty to gunfire near Muslim village  17 January 2014
• Robust policing set for second Lincoln mosque protest  16 January 2014
• Cricklewood protest against ‘terrorist’ Muslim Brotherhood  16 January 2014
• Judge rules in favor of Muslim woman on no-fly list  16 January 2014
• Scottish Defence League plans anti-mosque protest  16 January 2014
• Head says Lennon’s school visit would have been ‘a good opportunity for our students to hear about extremism’  16 January 2014
• French MEPs criticise government’s silence over mosque desecration  16 January 2013
• Coalition calls on Michigan Republican Party to condemn anti-Muslim comments by National Committeeman  15 January 2014
• Fascists behind campaign against Muslim cemetery  15 January 2014
• Jerusalem councilman urges Muslims: ‘Leave Israel’  15 January 2014
• Anti-Islamic group patrols clubs to ‘protect’ Polish women  15 January 2014
• Birkenhead man denies mosque blasts terrorist plot  15 January 2014
• Quebec values charter takes a beating at opening day of public hearings  15 January 2014
• Man wanted for racist attack after Farnworth EDL march  15 January 2014
• Application to hold rally against Islamophobia in Moscow will be rejected  15 January 2014
• West Bank mosque partly torched in suspected settler attack  15 January 2014
• Islamophobic ‘list’ used to justify suspicion of Muslims  14 January 2014
• Tory MP slams BNP leafleting in Enfield North  14 January 2014
• Quilliam arranges speaking tour for former EDL leader – in schools  14 January 2014
• Parti Québécois government minister says ‘charter of values’ can spearhead general attack on multiculturalism in Canada  13 January 2014

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