The English Defence League (EDL) is planning another march in Cambridge, according to campaigners. A “massive” counter demonstration has already been planned by Cambridge Unite Against Fascism (CUAF).
More than 670 officers policed an EDL march in the city in July, 2011.
Richard Rose, of CUAF, said: “Our head office has information that has been confirmed by the EDL that they will march in Cambridge on February 23. We have organised a counter demo opposing the EDL and what it stands for.”
Members of a Fremont mosque were shaken after a man entered the building Wednesday then threatened everyone inside.
Police said a man walked into the Ibrahim Khalillullah Islamic Center on Osgood Road Wednesday during afternoon prayer and said he had a gun and threatened to kill everyone inside. The people inside asked him to leave and he left peacefully, but he remains on the run.
The center’s leaders told KTVU they’ve never had anything like that happen before. “We are a little worried because of the situation that happened in Oregon,” said Fareed Wardak, a board of director’s member. “We don’t want the same thing to happen.”
See also NBC Bay Area, 13 December 2012
A Muslim man is seeking answers from federal law enforcement agencies about what he describes as their harassment of him and his family since his return to Oklahoma from the Middle East.
Saadiq Long, a U.S. Air Force veteran and McAlester native, said Thursday he and his sister have been followed by the FBI and have had several unexpected and unwanted encounters with agents of the federal agency since he arrived in Oklahoma from Qatar on Nov. 19.
On Friday, December 14, the Chicago office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Chicago) will announce the launch of the “MyJihad” educational campaign at a press conference in the morning and at a community party in the afternoon.
MyJihad is an independent national initiative that seeks to share the proper meaning of Jihad as believed and practiced by the majority of Muslims. Jihad is a central tenet of the Islamic creed, which means struggling uphill in order to get to a better place.
An umbrella organisation representing Muslims in Germany has called for a “denazification” of German state authorities, and demanded they refrain from using the terms “Islamism” and “Islamist” to describe radical Muslims.
The German Muslim coordination council (KRM) presented a dossier on Wednesday on the botched investigation into the National Socialist Underground (NSU) terrorist cell.
German Muslims say the debacle – in which authorities failed to prevent the murders of nine immigrants and one police woman over a decade – was no accident, wrote the Frankfurter Rundschau on Thursday.
Controversial broadcaster Alan Jones has been ordered to apologise for comments he made in 2005 describing Lebanese Muslims as “vermin” and “mongrels”.
The Administrative Decisions Tribunal (ADT) ordered Jones to apologise on his 2GB radio show between 8am and 8.30am any day next week over the comments he made on-air in April 2005.
The English Defence League has posted the latest message from its imprisoned leader Stephen Lennon, wishing his organisation’s now severely depleted troops a happy Christmas.
As you might expect, the letter consists mostly of an extended whinge about his personal predicament. However, “Tommy” does take the opportunity to offer us the benefit of his latest thinking on the origins and aims of Islam.
U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann says President Barack Obama’s administration has embraced what she calls a bid by Islamic fundamentalists to bring the U.S. government in line with Islamic law.
Bachmann, R-Stillwater, made the comments last weekend in an interview with Jan Markell, a Maple Grove-based Christian minister with Olive Tree Ministries.
A 21-year-old man has been charged with racially aggravated harassment after a pig’s head was discovered outside a mosque, police have said.
The incident happened outside the Muslim place of worship in Pound Street, Newbury, Berkshire, on October 23, Thames Valley Police said.
A man, who police have not named, has been charged with racially aggravated harassment and a Section 4 public order offence. He has been bailed to appear at Reading Magistrates’ Court on December 19.
See also Newbury Today, 12 December 2012
