BBC News and the Leicester Mercury report on the latest developments over the plan to convert a disused scout hut into an Islamic community centre.
Yearly Archives: 2012
Netherlands ‘halal homes’ ignite religious row
BBC News reports on the controversy stirred up by Wilders’ PVV.
Racist attackers punched pregnant woman and tore off friend’s hijab
Two women punched a pregnant woman and pulled her friend’s hijab from her head in a racial attack. Eileen Kennedy, 28, and a 15-year-old female, assaulted Umaimi Musa at Royston Road, Glasgow, on September 3. The teenager also assaulted Ms Musa’s friend Mary Marandran, then five months pregnant.
France asks European Parliament to lift Le Pen immunity
French authorities have asked the European Parliament to lift the immunity of far-right leader Marine Le Pen so she can be prosecuted for comparing Islamic prayers to the Nazi occupation, officials said Monday.
Justice ministry spokesman Pierre Rance told AFP the request was sent to European Parliament President Martin Schulz late last month. A source close to the matter said the request was related to an ongoing judicial probe into remarks made by Le Pen in a speech to supporters of her Front National party in December 2010.
Fox News reignites Islamophobic campaign against the ‘Ground Zero Mosque’
Hamed Aleaziz at Think Progress has the details.
EDL’s planned march in Slough condemned
Far-right group the English Defence League (EDL) is planning a demonstration in Slough early in the New Year. A website, aiming to expose and counter the EDL, says the group is planning four marches – in Slough, Cambridge, Manchester and Newcastle. The anonymous website founder claims the information was leaked to him by an EDL member.
We have nothing to fear from our Muslim citizens
New census figures showing an increase in the UK’s Muslim population are no excuse for scaremongering, argues Ian Birrell.
FBI: Anti-Muslim hate crimes remain relatively high
Hate crimes against perceived Muslims, which jumped up 50% in 2010 largely as a result of anti-Muslim propagandizing, remained at relatively high levels last year, according to 2011 hate crime statistics released today by the FBI.
Another fascist protest against Sunderland mosque
Protestors again gathered at the site of a planned mosque in Millfield.
A proposal to convert a former council depot into a mosque has caused controversy since the decision was accepted in January. And on Saturday members from the National Patriotic Front turned up to the site with signs, including some that read “no more mosques.”
Treasurer Paul Stephenson said: “We are a Christian country, we don’t want to bring their ideas and practices into our country.” Chairman Robert Patten added: “We come here every month and we are going to keep coming back until there is something done about this. We want to stop the spread of Islam as much as we can.”
Bradford EDL men face jail
It is no surprise that where the EDL go racist violence follows soon after.
Two Bradford EDL activists have admitted taking part in violence following a protest in West Yorkshire earlier this year.