A mosque in Enkhuizen in North Holland was the victim of an arson attack early on Saturday morning. The women’s prayer room has been completely destroyed. There was a previous attempt to set fire to the mosque in 2011.
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Fascists target Sunderland Muslims on Facebook
‘Angel’ unites with a ‘patriot’
Anti-fascists claim Far Right extremists are establishing roots in Sunderland and spreading racial hatred across the city via Facebook.
Activists from Hope not Hate claim a Wearsider using the alias “Angel Unites Patriots” is playing a central role in organising Far Right demonstrations against Muslims living in the city.
The organisation also claims the user behind “Angel” was among crowds of English Defence League (EDL) supporters chanting anti-Muslim slogans at last month’s demo against proposals for a new mosque of St Mark’s Road in Millfield.
Nazi graffiti found on mosque at Voiron
On Friday morning worshippers at the mosque in Voiron near Grenoble found that their mosque had been defaced with graffiti. Swastikas about a metre in diameter had been painted in red on the walls of the place of worship.
15-year-old girl expelled from French school for wearing a headband and long skirt which were considered ‘too religious’
A 15-year-old Muslim girl has been expelled from school in France for wearing a headband and long skirt combination which was considered “too religious”, her teachers confirmed today.
Sirine Ben Yahiaten is now set to launch a criminal complaint for discrimination and harassment following her exclusion from the Prunais college in Villiers-sur-Marne, a Paris suburb.
It comes as President Francois Hollande pledges to reinforce the controversial ban on full-face Islamic veils introduced in 2011.
Hate crime vandals target West Bank mosques
Vandals scrawled Hebrew threats on two mosques in a West Bank village in the latest hate crime by suspected Jewish extremists, a local official said on Sunday.
“Settlers came in the middle of the night and wrote threats in Hebrew on the walls of two mosques and slashed the tyres of a car,” said Adel al-Shaer, a councillor for Teqoa village east of Bethlehem.
Athens mayor defends Greek Muslims’ right to worship
Athens Mayor George Kaminis said the pending opening of the first official mosque in Greece, being built in Athens by the government, will pave the way for more, as many as two or more in each district of the city, spreading the influence of Islam.
During a meeting of the city’s council, Kaminis, a supporter of the mosque that some critics, such as the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party and some Greek Orthodox Church officials are trying to block, defended the construction “for obvious reasons of political equality and defense of the right to free exercise of religion” but also “for practical reasons, in order to put in order the irregular creation of such informal places.”
Man behind plan to establish Islamic centre in Shotton is victim of arson attack
A dad fears his family could have been killed in a suspected racist arson attack which left his three young daughters terrified.
North Wales Police launched an investigation after a garage at the back of Shafiul Islam’s house in Shotton was torched early on Tuesday morning.
Congress obsessed with American Muslims, neglects real threat of white supremacists
Over at Informed Comment, Juan Cole argues that US politicians and media are refusing to take the threat of far-right terrorism seriously.
Race hate case against EDL co-leader dropped
An investigation into an allegation that an English Defence League leader had made racist comments on Facebook has been dropped. Kevin Carroll was arrested in January but a Bedfordshire Police spokeswoman said the case had now been dropped due to lack of evidence.
University of Nottingham stands up to far-right intimidation
The EDL/NEI protest in Sunderland wasn’t the only far-right anti-Muslim demonstration on Saturday. A number of fascist groups gathered outside the University of Nottingham to protest against the Family Retreat event being held at the conference centre over the Easter weekend, at which Haitham al-Haddad was an advertised speaker.