Yearly Archives: 2012

Boston: response to anti-Islamic graffiti

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Charlestown graffiti

On Friday, Sept. 21, officers responded to the corner of Main Street and School Street for a report graffiti. The call that triggered the response originally reported the vandalism as anti-Semitic, but the officer found that it was instead anti-islamic. The graffiti read “Islam sucks! You rat pack Islamic rats. The Warlock. USA #1.” Police forwarded the report to the city’s public works department because it was written on city property.

Charlestown Patch, 24 September 2012

See also “Counter-vandal opposes anti-Islam message”,Charlestown Patch, 25 September 2012

Via Loonwatch

London, Ontario: mosque receives hate mail

Posted on by Bob Pitt

While violent protests are taking place across the Middle East and North America, a local mosque was concerned, but not totally surprised, when it received hate mail.

London Muslim Mosque Imam Jamal Taleb said the incident was reported to the police Sunday (Sept. 23), adding the mosque doesn’t know who sent the letter, but the institution does occasionally receive letters when conflict arises somewhere else in the world.

“Whenever something happens overseas, especially related to the Muslim faith, we get something by phone or by mail,” Taleb said. “They tell us, ‘We don’t want you here, you’re a stranger, we want you to be out of the country’.” The Imam added such messages are bothersome because they raise concerns about the safety of members of the local Muslim community.

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Fascist sees Breivik as an inspiration and role model

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A kickboxing champ has said an Anders Breivik-style attack could happen in the UK.

Darren Clifft, who is pictured on Facebook doing a Hitler salute while dressed in a Ku Klux Klan hood, said far-right nuts had been inspired by the Norwegian who killed 77 people in Oslo and on the island of Utøya. And the jobless racist, 22, said he would applaud anyone who carried out such an attack.

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Court upholds sale of Detroit school for mosque

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Controversial plans to open a mosque in a former school building in West Bloomfield moved a step closer to reality Friday with a decision by the Michigan Court of Appeals. The appeals court upheld a lower court ruling that found the sale of the former Eagle Elementary to the Islamic Cultural Association was proper.

The Court of Appeals said plaintiffs Melvyn Sternfeld and Eugene Greenstein, West Bloomfield residents who both opposed the sale, failed to prove that they would be harmed by the transaction. “Sternfeld’s vague and speculative affidavit does not establish his standing to pursue declaratory and injunctive relief,” the three-judge panel said in its ruling.

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Far right and atheists hold small anti-Islam protest in Melbourne

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Melbourne anti-Islam rally

The cancellation of Saturday’s planned rally in Melbourne against Islamophobia didn’t prevent people turning up to denounce Islam. The small anti-Islam protest brought together atheists brandishing signs reading “(Like all religions) Islam is false” and fascist thugs wearing SS insignia. The latter included Nationalist Alternative, a neo-Nazi group who reject opportunist attempts to win popular support by targeting Islam alone and uphold the right of white Australians to abuse and insult Muslims and Jews equally.

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