Category Archives: Far right racists

Swedish elections: narrow victory for right-wing alliance, Sweden Democrats enter parliament

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Jimmie Akesson celebrates
Sweden Democrats leader Jimmie Åkesson celebrates

Sweden’s governing centre-right alliance has been re-elected, but may be short of an overall majority, official preliminary results show.

According to the figures, PM Fredrik Reinfeldt’s four-party coalition has won 173 seats out of 349 in parliament.

The far-right Sweden Democrats are said to have gained more than 4% of the vote, enabling them to enter parliament for the first time.

Mr Reinfeldt said previously he did not want to speculate on how his Alliance for Sweden coalition would deal with the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats if they got into parliament.

BBC News, 19 September 2010

See also “Sweden Democrats savour parliament entry”, The Local, 19 September 2010

The Sweden Democrats have got 5.7% of the vote and 20 MPs.

Sweden Democrat deputy leader warns of Islamic revolution … in Sweden

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Björn SöderAn Islamic revolution akin to the one that swept through Iran in 1979 could easily take place in Sweden, claims the second highest ranking member of the far-right Sweden Democrats. “It can happen really fast,” said Sweden Democrat party secretary Björn Söder to the TT news agency.

Söder is number two behind party leader Jimmie Åkesson on the Sweden Democrat party list. As party secretary, his role is to stake out the party’s line on key issues.

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EDL supporter charged over racist threats to Muslims

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A man was held in custody yesterday afternoon on a charge of racially aggravated public order. The court appearance followed an incident at the new Wrexham Muslim Association mosque.

Father-of-four David Jared Evans, 36, was arrested over alleged racist comments and threats made to two people who were leaving the mosque at the former Miners’ Institute in Grosvenor Road, Wrexham, on Monday evening.

Evans, of High Street, Rhos, is charged with using threatening, abusive and insulting language and behaviour towards Abdulla Anwar which were racially aggravated.

Robert Blakemore, prosecuting, outlined the allegations at Flintshire Magistrates’ Court and said the case should be dealt with in the crown court. Magistrates agreed and Evans said in any event he wished to elect crown court trial.

The court heard that social networking sites were advertising a demonstration on Saturday against the use of the former Miners’ Institute as a mosque.

Mr Blakemore said after reading texts on Evans’ mobile phone between himself and the English Defence League he would apply for a remand in custody.

The Mold-based magistrates remanded Evans in custody for a week pending committal proceedings to the crown court.

The Leader, 17 September 2010

BNP endorses Quilliam Foundation report

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Under the headline “Muslim organisations squeal after government-funded report reveals true extent of Islamic colonisation: a caliphate in Britain”, the BNP has latched onto the leaked Quilliam Foundation report.

The mainstream media covered this issue in early August, so the BNP has been a bit slow on the uptake here. But then, when you’re grappling with a situation where your organisation is imploding, heading for bankruptcy and generally in total chaos, which is the state to which Nick Griffin’s leadership has brought the BNP, I suppose it’s difficult to keep on top of developments in the outside world.

However, you can understand why the BNP is so enthusiastic about the Quilliam report – because it takes an almost identical line to that long promoted by the BNP itself, namely that peaceful mass organisations like the MCB are motivated by the same ideology as al-Qaeda-inspired terrorist groupuscules. How pleased the fascists are that the Quilliam Foundation has given credibility to their hysterical, lying attacks on mainstream Muslim organisations. Ed Husain and Maajid Nawaz must be really proud of themselves.

Soccer hooligans at Ground Zero

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EDL in New York2

Over at his New York Times blog, Robert Mackey has posted an analysis of the English Defence League, who sent a delegation to New York last weekend to support the anti-Park51 rally. Hopefully this will be taken up more widely by the US media because, on the “by their friends ye shall know them” principle, it does shed some revealing light on the political character of Geller and Spencer’s campaign.

So farewell then, Stephen Gash

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Stephen GashAnders Gravers of Stop Islamisation of Europe brings us the news that Stephen Gash, SIOE’s organiser in England, will be retiring from that post.

I think it’s unlikely that anyone will notice. While Gash would no doubt like to look back on the successes registered by SIOE England during his period of leadership, his actual record in the struggle against the Muslim hordes has amounted to a series of embarrassing flops.

Gash first came to prominence in what is now called the counter-jihad movement in October 2007 when he organised an SIOE “Stop Kuffarphobia” protest in central London. Gash told the police he was expecting a thousand demonstrators, but in the event only thirty turned up. Unwilling to stop the traffic for such small numbers the police wouldn’t let them march along the road and insisted that they use the pavement instead.

Gash then announced an SIOE protest against Harrow Central Mosque in August 2009. On the day, faced with hundreds of anti-racist counter-protestors, the police refused to allow SIOE to hold its demonstration outside the mosque and Gash himself was arrested when he resisted instructions to turn back. A couple of dozen football hooligans from the English Defence League who came to support Gash were chased away by local youth and reduced to cowering behind police lines. All in all, a complete disaster for SIOE.

Not a man to be deterred by failure, Gash announced a further SIOE protest in Harrow in December 2009, which he confidently predicted would draw a crowd of 2,000. In the outcome, only about fifteen people responded to Gash’s call.

Perhaps disappointment and humiliation have finally proved too much for Gash. While SIOE England has got nowhere, the EDL have at least been able to mobilise hundreds of brain-dead Islamophobes behind their own anti-Muslim provocations. A would-be general of the counter-jihad movement, Gash’s ambition was fatally undermined by an unfortunate lack of troops. You’d need a heart of stone not to laugh.

The lesson of 9/11: Don’t dare upset the Muslims

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Hardly a day goes by without us witnessing appalling atrocities and provocations in the supposed name of Islam: suicide bombings, fatwas, stonings, burnings of effigies and flags, Holocaust denial, and other crude forms of anti-Semitism. Women in Gaza and Muslim countries daren’t even have an orgasm without first obtaining the permission of their Islamofascist rulers. And who in the West dares to utter a word in protest?

A loony pastor in Florida, however, with no more than fifty followers, threatens to burn a few Korans and the Western media descends into a state of frenzy, the story leading all the major networks for days.

Such disproportionate oversensitivity to and appeasement of Muslims constitutes a worrying sign that the West may already have given up the fight against the evil of Islamofascism….

I am under no illusion about individuals such as Pastor Jones or, for example, elements of the English Defence League. What I do admire, however, is their refusal to lie down while their world and way of life – and in their own countries – is being transformed in front of their very eyes.

Anyone who is more concerned about a few books being burned by some deranged pastor – and we are not talking state-sponsored, 1933-style destruction here – than about the creeping Islamization of our planet is no less irrational than the mook with the handlebar moustache.

Melchett Mike at the JC Blog, 11 September 2010

Note the appearance of Zionist Federation vice-chair Jonathan Hoffman in the comments to this post, expressing his support.

Leaders of 14 unions back November demo against racism and Islamophobia

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UAF demo Nov 2010

The general secretaries of the GMB general union and the UCU lecturers’ union have both signed up to support the national demo against racism, fascism and Islamophobia on Saturday 6 November.

Backing from Paul Kenny and Sally Hunt means that the leaders of 14 trade unions, representing millions of workers, have now signed up to support the demo called by UAF and backed by the TUC, the Muslim Council of Britain and Love Music Hate Racism.

Labour leadership rivals Ed Balls and Diane Abbott are also among those who have signed the statement backing the march and carnival, which will take place in central London.

Statement supporting the 6 November demo

We, the undersigned, are deeply concerned by the rise in fascism, Islamophobia, antisemitism and racism. The English Defence League has organised events across the country, stirring up hatred, Islamophobia and racism – running riot in some cases and provoking violent attacks on Muslim, black and Asian communities and on Mosques and Mandirs (Hindu temples).

Alongside this the British National Party has received unprecedented electoral support for a fascist organisation in Britain.

Despite losing many council seats in the elections this year, the BNP’s share of the vote overall continued to rise and it has two elected members of the European Parliament.

This is in the context of a wave of Islamaphobia and racism in Europe and the USA, including threats to burn copies of the Qur’an, attacks on Mosques and Islamic cultural centres, bans on Muslim women’s full-face veils and the construction of minarets. In France, the Roma people have been singled out and subjected to mass expulsions.

Now, more than ever, we must unite to turn back this tide of hatred.

We stand against the rise of racism, fascism, Islamophobia and antisemitism and support the demonstration on Saturday 6 November.

Signed:

Derek Simpson joint general secretary, Unite the union, Tony Woodley joint general secretary, Unite the union, Keith Sonnetdeputy general secretary Unison, Paul Kenny general secretary GMB Ed Balls MP, Diane Abbott MP, Billy Hayes general secretary, CWU, Tony Kearns deputy general secretary, CWU,Chris Keates general secretary, NASUWT, Christine Blowergeneral secretary NUT, Kevin Courtney deputy general secretary, NUT, Sally Hunt general secretary UCU, Mark Serwotkageneral secretary PCS, Hugh Lanning deputy general secretary PCS, Matt Wrack general secretary FBU, Bob Crow general secretary, RMT, Jeremy Dear general secretary NUJ, Pete Murray president NUJ, Gerry Conlon Guildford Four, Paddy Hill Birmingham Six, Runnymede Trust, Napo, POA, Musicians Union

>> Add your support to the statement
>> Download leaflets here
>> Model motion for trade union branches and community organisations

Update:  See also “Major Muslim organisations throw weight behind demo”, UAF news release, 17 September 2010

EDL burn Qur’an at London demonstration

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=I_kgw6fdGfY

The English Defence League proudly film themselves burning pages from the Qur’an during their demonstration in central London on Saturday.

They think the police officer who stopped them was a Muslim. I mean, why else would he intervene to prevent decent English patriots exercising their democratic right to incite hatred against Islam? The EDL have to content themselves with a tuneless chant of “Allah is a paedo”.

And the bizarre thing is, they post stuff like this on YouTube in the evident belief that it presents their cause in a favourable light.

Another EDL ‘flash mob’ – in Nuneaton

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Police officers swooped to quell a racist confrontation which flared up shortly after soldiers had paraded through Nuneaton yesterday afternoon.

Members of the English Defence League attended the ceremony, which granted the Borough Council’s Freedom of Entry to the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers. As the march came to an end, the 60-strong EDL entourage headed towards the Edward Street area of the town, which is the heart of the local Muslim community.

“We were  expecting some people connected with the EDL to be at the parade and after it had finished they congregated at The Crew bar in Queen’s Road,” said Chief Inspector Chris Lewis. “They positioned themselves outside and raised tensions with the Muslim community, which caused a few minor skirmishes but nothing of any consequence. We moved in to keep people at a distance and to calm things down. The EDL members were then escorted away from the scene and back to Nuneaton train station.”

The Warwickshire force commander, who was in charge of policing the parade, added: “We are constantly scanning for intelligence and knew that the EDL were planning to be in attendance for this occasion. Many of them had travelled from other parts of the country but they also had some local supporters.”

Around 200 people gathered around the Edward Street-Queen’s Road junction during a four-hour stand-off, as police officers, including dog handlers, kept the situation under control. All roads leading to the area were blocked for traffic and police reinforcements were also called in from the West Midlands.

Yaseen Ahmedabadi, assistant secretary of the Nuneaton Muslim Society, said: “The local community staged a peaceful protest against the unexpected and unwarranted presence of visitors from the English Defence League, who have no place in our society. We are very pleased with the way the police handled the situation.”

Coventry Telegraph, 13 September 2010