Reports and comment from Islamophobia Watch 14-20 October 2013

• Crazies unite to oppose Bill de Blasio  20 October 2013
• French Polynesia’s first imam receiving death threats over mosque  20 October 2013
• Bournemouth EDL supporters make arson threats against Muslim shop  20 October 2013
• Politicians blamed for public hysteria over veil  19 October 2013
• Three in court over ‘Muslim patrol’  18 October 2013
• Joel Hayward on libel victory against Mail on Sunday  18 October 2013
• Likud municipal campaigns ordered to drop racist ads  18 October 2013
• EDL spokesman Guramit Singh Kalirai finally jailed for robbery bid  18 October 2013
• Polish Jews say mosque torching reminiscent of Kristallnacht  18 October 2013
• Moscow’s large Muslim community faces violence, suppression  18 October 2013
• Animal rights groups want Mufti punished for illegal halal slaughter  18 October 2013
• Canadian actor apologises for derogatory comments about Muslim women  18 October 2013
• CCIF takes on L’Express  18 October 2013
• Jacob Bender is first Jew to lead chapter of Muslim advocacy group CAIR   17 October 2013
• Ismaili community ‘pleasantly surprised’ by Worcester Park Tavern consultation  17 October 2013
• Crimean Tatars want law enforcers to investigate arson attacks on mosques  17 October 2013
• French veil sacking case goes back to court  17 October 2013
• Anti-mosque leaflet in Chipping Norton warns that David Cameron has ‘set up a special task force to ensure your children kneel before Allah’  17 October 2013
• EDL’s Hartlepool organiser convicted of threatening behaviour after trying to attack peaceful counter-protest  17 October 2013
• De Blasio tells Muslims he’ll end broad NYPD spying if elected  17 October 2013
• Virginia Beach councilman who opposed mosque has close links to anti-Muslim hate group  17 October 2013
• Québec inclusif replies to Janette Bertrand  17 October 2013
• Midlands terror bomb mosques see security tightened  16 October 2013
• Muslim woman wearing niqab is attacked on Tyne and Wear Metro  16 October 2013
• Fascist graffiti targeting Muslims in Watford subway  16 October 2013
• Tory press plays Islamophobic ‘dog whistle’ … with assistance from Labour  16 October 2013
• Former EDL leader threatens to go back to Tower Hamlets  16 October 2013
• Racist teenager who thought of bombing mosque wanted ‘revolution’ to bring EDL and BNP to power, court told  16 October 2013
• Arson attack on Gdansk mosque follows halal slaughter row  16 October 2013
• Marine Le Pen to meet Wilders in Netherlands next month  16 October 2013
• Nottingham Academy pupil in tears at being told off over Islamic locket  16 October 2013
• Bradford Council to consider bid to make English Defence League illegal  16 October 2013
• Polish Muslims drop Eid sacrifice amid protests, halal ban  15 October 2013
• National Secular Society member to lead EDL?  15 October 2013
• UAF complains over soft treatment of SDL by police during Dundee protest  15 October 2013
• A week is a long time in counterjihadism: A balance sheet of Stephen Lennon’s break with the EDL  15 October 2013
• Exeter group formed to counter EDL march  15 October 2013
• West Yorkshire PCC in call for greater EDL powers  15 October 2013
• Moscow: Nationalist mob in anti-migrant riot  14 October 2013
• Louboutin wins case against Vlaams Belang, who respond by launching new anti-Islam poster  14 October 2013
• Tea party protestor says US is ‘ruled by a president who bows down to Allah’, calls on Obama to ‘put the Qur’an down’  14 October 2013