Reports and comment from Islamophobia Watch 30 September-5 October 2013

• Marois’ dangerous game exposed  6 October 2013
• Finns Party leadership finally takes action against racist Islamophobe  5 October 2013
• Drunk who threw glasses at mosque and swore about Muslims is not a racist, court told  5 October 2013
• ‘I don’t want any veiled women in my town’, says French mayor  4 October 2013
• Attempted arson at Islamic centre in Luton  4 October 2013
• Fierce debate over Islamic centre proposed for former Worcester Park Tavern  4 October 2013
• Ohio school district pulls video on Islam after conservative group threatens legal challenge  4 October 2013
• Demonstration against SDL in Dundee tomorrow  4 October 2013
• EDL ‘foot soldier’ fined for racist assault on Muslim woman  4 October 2013
• Teenage neo-Nazi declared himself ‘Commander of the Knights Templar’, and posed for pictures holding a gun  4 October 2013
• Muslim woman says restaurant staff put bacon in her drink  4 October 2013
• Teenager on terror charges claimed to be in contact with EDL leader Stephen Lennon  3 October 2013
• Muslim women in hijabs increasingly the target of abuse since Quebec charter was introduced  3 October 2013
• N.J. mosque controversy: Federal judge allows Muslim house of worship to be built in Bridgewater  3 October 2013
• Tribunal rules Tesco restricted access to Muslim prayer room  3 October 2013
• Islamophobia returns to Worcester Park  3 October 2013
• Arabic foreign language class teaches ‘a culture of hate,’ some parents say  3 October 2013
• Appeals court overturns discrimination judgement against Abercrombie & Fitch  3 October 2013
• Catholic school puts Muslim pupils in isolation for growing beards, says there is ‘nothing in the Qur’an’ to justify this practice  3 October 2013
• Islam to be recognized officially in Lower Saxony  2 October 2013
• Syrian refugees complain against Bulgarian MP’s hate speech  2 October 2013
• MPs demand banning of EDL march in Bradford  2 October 2013
• A postscript on Anne Marie Waters and Dispatch International  2 October 2013
• EDL member ‘planned terror attacks’  2 October 2013
• EDL postpones Bournemouth demo  2 October 2013
• 62% in Quebec oppose firing public servants for wearing religious symbols  2 October 2013
• Smashed windows, arson attacks and anti-Muslim threats in Weston-super-Mare  2 October 2013
• Judge asked to bar NYPD monitoring of Muslims  1 October 2013
• Virginia Bay councilman criticized for mosque claims  1 October 2013
• NSS council member and OLFA spokesperson continues to build links with EDL supporters  1 October 2013
• Charlton man threatened to ‘kill all Muslims’ after Lee Rigby death  1 October 2013
• Racist graffiti hits Sydney suburb  1 October 2013
• Anti-Islam Freedom Party gets over a fifth of the vote in Austrian elections  30 September 2013
• National Post readers on Quebec’s ‘Charter of Values’  30 September 2013
• Protest over ‘halal abattoir plan’ in Basildon  30 September 2013
• Two ex-workers sue Sears for discrimination, claiming they were fired because they are Muslims  30 September 2013
• Gove plans witch-hunt of Muslim schools, with assistance of Murdoch press  30 September 2013
• Minnesota woman ejected from event for being Muslim  30 September 2013