Category Archives: Far right racists

Supporter of ‘non-racist’ EDL fined over racist graffiti

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A man has been ordered to pay compensation after graffiting racist abuse on the doors of Hebden Bridge train station.

James Allen, 62, of Wood Villas, Hebden Bridge, appeared unrepresented at Calderdale Magistrates’ Court. He admitted causing £700 damage and possessing two bags of cannabis.

On seven different occasions between April 23 and June 7, station staff found graffiti supporting the English Defence League daubed on the back of doors in the male toilets.

He was given a 12-month community order and told to complete 60 hours of unpaid work, pay compensation of £100 and £85 towards costs.

Halifax Courier, 27 June 2011

Surprise, surprise – Wilders is acquitted of inciting hatred

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Geert Wilders extremistAn Amsterdam court Thursday acquitted Dutch far-right lawmaker Geert Wilders on charges of hate speech and discrimination for statements he made attacking Islam.

“You are being acquitted on all the charges that were put against you,” Judge Marcel van Oosten said, reiterating an argument last month by the prosecution that charges against Wilders should be dropped.

“The bench finds that your statements are acceptable within the context of the public debate,” the judge told Wilders, 47, who has been on trial in the Amsterdam regional court since last October.

The flamboyant MP faced five counts of hate speech and discrimination for his anti-Islamic remarks on websites, Internet forums and in Dutch newspapers between October 2006 and March 2008, and in his controversial 17-minute movie “Fitna”.

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Socialist mayoral candidate backs second mosque in Sofia

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Georgi Kadiev, the leftist Bulgarian Socialist Party’s runner for Mayor of the capital Sofia, has stated he has “nothing against” the possible construction of a second mosque in the city. If necessary, even a third and a fourth mosque may be built, as well as a synagogue or an Armenian temple.

However, Kadiev, who on Wednesday met the Chief Mufti of the Bulgarian Muslim Community, has set a restriction for the potential future mosque – it should not have loudspeakers, as their sound may be found too aggressive by the rest of the citizens.

Kadiev pointed out that most of Sofia’s Muslim community, between 30,000 and 50,000 people, are foreigners and do not have the right to vote, stating his endorsement is not populism.

At the beginning of June, Bulgaria’s ethnic Turkish party, Movement for Rights and Freedoms, DPS, demanded to have a second mosque built in the capital Sofia.

On May 20, supporters of the far-right, nationalist Ataka party, led by party Chair, Volen Siderov, shocked Bulgaria as its rally protesting against the use of loudspeakers by the mosque got out of hand, and activists of Ataka assaulted praying Muslims in front of the mosque.

Novinite, 22 June 2011

Wilders trial verdict due tomorrow

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Wilders in court (3)The trial of Geert Wilders is nearly over. On Thursday, the three Amsterdam district court judges conducting the trial will announce their verdict. It is widely expected that Mr Wilders will be acquitted on all the charges facing him.

If that is the case, the 29-month legal struggle which saw one of the country’s most popular and influential politicians accused of hate-mongering will come to an end.

It started back in January 2009 when justices of the Amsterdam court ordered the public prosecutor to bring charges against Mr Wilders of inciting hatred and discrimination, based on a number of his anti-Islamic statements published in the national media, as well as Mr Wilders’ film, Fitna.

One moment during the dozens of courtroom sessions encapsulated what, for many, the trial was supposed to be about. Twenty-four-year-old law student Naoual Abaida, daughter of a Moroccan immigrant, stood in the courtroom not two metres from Geert Wilders. She was allowed to speak as one of the “injured parties”; one of the people who had initially petitioned the Justice Ministry to prosecute Geert Wilders.

Looking into his eyes she said his “insulting, polarising and provocative language has set the tone for a country becoming increasingly intolerant”.

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Islamophobic extremists to hold joint conference in France

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Stop Islamization of America (SIOA) and Stop Islamisation of Europe (SIOE) are to hold their first joint conference in July. The organizations will hold the event in Strasbourg, France, on July 2. Among the speakers will be a representative of the English Defence League (EDL).

SIOA and SIOE claim to “defend human rights, religious liberty, and the freedom of speech” against what they call “Islamic supremacist intimidation and attempts to bring elements of Sharia to the West.” This summit will feature the first speech in Europe by Executive Director of SIOA, Pamela Geller.

The confirmed list of speakers also includes Robert Spencer; SIOE Director Anders Gravers; Roberta Moore of the Jewish Division – EDL; Conny Meier of the German group Pax Europa; and Bulgarian presidential candidate Pavel Chernev.

Asian Image, 21 June 2011

See also Atlas Shrugs, 21 June 2011

EDL thugs attack Leeds anti-racism event

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Police are continuing to investigate after an anti-racism concert was stormed by protesters chanting support for the English Defence League.

Three men were arrested on suspicion of affray after a hail of rocks and bottles were thrown into the 150 strong crowd of music fans and at windows at The Well venue, Chorley Lane, near the city centre. Two people were injured at Saturday’s all day Rage Against Racism event. One man had teeth knocked out.

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Pat Condell claims all rapists in Oslo are ‘Muslim immigrants’

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Oslo rapes TV report
Misleading Norwegian TV report on the findings of police study of rapes in Oslo

Last week the National Secular Society’s favourite “comedian” Pat Condell posted his latest video on YouTube. Entitled “Islamic cultural terrorism”, it was enthusiastically received by Condell’s fellow anti-Muslim racists in the English Defence League.

EDL Pat Condell

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