Last month stickers produced by the far-right movements Terre et Peuple and Oeuvre Française were stuck on the walls of the mosque at Muret on the outskirts of Toulouse. One of them featured the slogan “In the face of invasion, resistance and reconquest” and another “France for the French”, while a third sticker warned that the white race faces extinction because only two per cent of white women are of childbearing age. Over the following days individuals drove at full speed past the mosque shouting “France for the French. Go home.”
Yearly Archives: 2012
Man guilty of racially abusing police officer
New York: pro-Muslim subway ads oppose Geller hate ads
Striking back against an anti-jihad advertisement in the subways widely perceived as anti-Muslim, two religious groups – one Jewish, one Christian – are taking out subway ads of their own to urge tolerance.
Rabbis for Human Rights – North America and the group Sojourners, led by the Christian author and social-justice advocate Jim Wallis, are unveiling their campaigns on Monday. Their ads will be placed near the anti-jihad ads in the same Manhattan subway stations, leaders of both groups said and transit officials confirmed. The groups said their campaigns were coincidental.
Anti-fascists planning rally to counter EDL’s Rotherham demo
Anti-fascist protesters have called for a peaceful multi-cultural rally on the day the extreme right English Defence League descends on Rotherham.
Follow the money: From Islamophobia to Israel right or wrong
The people bankrolling illegal Israeli expansionism in the occupied West Bank are the same people fomenting anti-Muslim sentiment in the U.S., Elly Bulkin and Donna Nevel argue.
Dudley Muslim Association opens last-minute talks with council over mosque plans
A Muslim group battling to build a bigger mosque in Dudley has said it may ditch a High Court appeal after opening last-minute talks with the council on alternative plans.
EDL member who made death threats against Muslims gets community order
A South Tyneside ex-soldier used his Facebook page to make racist comments about Muslims.
Kenneth Holden wrote the anti-Islamic messages after he started supporting the far-right English Defence League (EDL). The 30-year-old was arrested after police were alerted to the abusive comments that were written on his personal page.
Holden, of Winskell Road, South Shields, pleaded guilty to two counts of sending an offensive message by a public communication network at South Tyneside Magistrates’ Court last week.
Magistrates adjourned the case until yesterday for the probation service to write a report about him. The report recommended that Holden be placed under the supervision of probation so his attitudes towards Muslims could be looked at.
Kevin Smallcombe, defending, asked the magistrates to go along with the report’s recommendation. Holden was given a 12-month community order with supervision.
Halal butchers in Toulouse gutted by fire
The Collectif contre l’Islamophobie en France reports that a halal butchers in the Les Minimes area of Toulouse has been gutted by fire. The outbreak of the fire was accompanied by an explosion and press reports indicate that there is no doubt it was arson. CCIF points out that the fire follows graffiti attacks on halal butchers in Chalon-sur-Saône and Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
Bacon strewn at British Columbia mosque prompts hate crime probe
The RCMP is investigating the possibility of a hate crime after several piles of bacon were found outside a mosque in Port Coquitlam, B.C.
Police say it’s the second such act of vandalism and mischief at the Islamic Society of British Columbia mosque and Islamic Centre in the last 18 months.
Right-wing Christian bigot says EDL ‘rightly’ endorse his views on Islam
A minister whose ban by a council sparked the English Defence League to organise a march has denied having links to the right-wing group.