Category Archives: Far right racists

Vandals strike at Queensland mosque

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A mosque being built in Cairns has been vandalised just months after local Islamic leaders received hate mail depicting Muslims as terrorists.

The symbol of Islam, the crescent moon, was ripped from the roof of the Dunn St mosque about 2am on Monday. The symbol, which Muslims describe as important as the cross is to Christians, has yet to be found.

In the early stages of its construction, the mosque’s walls were smashed with sledgehammers and the centre’s mailbox was stuffed with drawings of Muslims dressed as terrorists. The letters were signed off from the Atheist Society of Cairns – believed to be a fake organisation.

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‘We Don’t Want a Mosque in Clitheroe’ Facebook page monitored by police

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A leader of Clitheroe’s small Muslim community has spoken of his disappointment after a social networking page was set up to protest against the building of the town’s new mosque.

The group on Facebook, called “We Don’t Want a Mosque in Clitheroe”, was started in response to plans to convert the disused former Mount Zion Methodist Chapel in Lowergate, into a community facility and place of worship for the local Muslim community.

The campaign’s supporters, believed to be mostly from outside the Ribble Valley, are now being warned their comments are being monitored by police and should think twice before posting anything abusive or offensive.

The Facebook group has more than 1,000 people signed up and features inflammatory comments.

Clitheroe Advertiser, 29 December 2009

Mad Mel explains the ‘Christmas Day bomber’

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Melanie Phillips Jihad in BritainMelanie Phillips offers her take on the case of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 23-year-old Nigerian man charged with trying to blow up a transatlantic flight:

“Who can be surprised? After all, this is ‘Londonistan’ – the contemptuous term coined by the French security service back in the Nineties as they watched Britain become the central hub of Islamic terrorism in Europe.

“Radicals flocked to the UK, attracted by Britain’s toxic combination of criminally lax immigration controls, generous health, education and welfare benefits and the ability to perpetuate their views through the British veneration of the principle of free speech.

“Despite 9/11, the 2005 London Tube and bus attacks and the dozens of other Islamist plots uncovered in Britain, the astounding fact is that Islamic extremist networks are still allowed to flourish in Britain, largely through the obsession of its governing class with multiculturalism and ‘human rights’…. Not only is no action taken against extremist mosques and madrassas, but many British universities have been turned into terrorism recruitment centres…. Last year, a poll by the Centre for Social Cohesion found – horrifyingly – that almost one in every three Muslim students in the UK said that killing in the name of religion was justified, with one third also in favour of a worldwide Islamic caliphate, or empire, based on Islamic sharia law…..

“The Government is funnelling money into extremist Islamist groups, and even employs Islamist radicals within government as advisers on – wait for it – ‘combating Islamic extremism’. All in all, Britain’s defences against radical Islamism now resemble nothing so much as one giant hen-house over which a pack of ravenous foxes has been placed in charge.

“The root cause of this madness is that British ministers and officials refuse to accept that what they are facing is religious fanaticism. They insist that Islamic extremism and terrorism have got nothing to do with Islam but are rather a ‘perversion’ of Islam. And they believe that the antidote to this is ‘authentic’ Islam – which they then use taxpayers’ money to promote. But what they fail to grasp is that ‘authentic’ Islam is currently dominated by a deeply politicised interpretation which promotes holy war to conquer ‘infidels’ and insufficiently pious Muslims.”

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On the trail with the EDL

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English Defence League. Protest march Manchester.

On Platform One at Bolton station a mob of around 100 men punch the air in unison. The chant goes up: “Muslim bombers, off our streets, Muslim bombers off our streets…”

Their voices echo loudly and more men suddenly appear; startled passengers move aside. The group march forward waving St George Cross flags and holding up placards. The throng of men around me applaud. A train heading for Glasgow draws up on the opposite platform and the men turn as one, bursting into song: “Engelaand, Engelaand, Engelaand.”

Some of the men hide behind balaclavas, others wear black hoodies. A few speak on mobile phones, their hands pressed against their ears to block out the cacophony.

“It’s already kicking off in Manchester. This could be tasty,” shouts one. These are some of the most violent football hooligans in Britain and today they have joined together in an unprecedented show of strength. Standing shoulder to shoulder are notorious gangs – or “firms” as they are known – such as Cardiff City’s Soul Crew, Bolton Wanderers’ Cuckoo Boys and Luton Town’s Men In Gear.

The gathering is remarkable, as on a match day these men would be fighting each other. But it is politics that has drawn them together. They are headed for Manchester to support a march by the burgeoning English Defence League.

CST and JC are ‘collaborators in the war against the Jews’, claims Pamela Geller

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Mad Pamela Geller has denounced Jewish organisations in the UK for opposing Stephen Gash’s recent Stop Islamisation of Europe demonstration outside Harrow Central Mosque:

The Community Security Trust (CST), a leading Jewish group in Britain, urged the Jewish community there not to support the demonstration. The CST said in a statement that it “has drawn attention to the Islamaphobic comments on SIOE’s website, and compared the group to the English Defence League, and the BNP’s Nick Griffin, who have attempted to gain support from Jews through pro-Israel and anti-Muslim statements…. A demonstration against Harrow mosque under the banner ‘Stop the Islamization of Europe,’ is as stupid and offensive as a demonstration against Harrow synagogue, under the banner ‘Stop the Zionization of Europe.'”

Once again leftist Jews were lying and deceiving to advance the aims of the enemies of Jews and Jewish life…. Rabbis attacked the SIOE campaign also. They said that SIOE’s “only purpose” was “to spread hatred and fear,” and wrote: “We share the desire of the Muslim community of Harrow to respect our mutual traditions, to learn from each other’s cultures and ways of life, and to live together in peace.” Even the Rabbis abandon Israel when the going gets rough. These morally ill rabbis have lost their basic instinct of self-preservation.

The Jewish Chronicle even went so far as to gloat when attendance was small. Did the Chronicle ask why so few people attended this demonstration in a town where the majority does not want this mosque? The majority knows what’s happening in their country and fear it….

Much like the Jewish councils of World War II Germany that helped assist in what would become the extermination of the Jews, we are witnessing Jewish groups like the CST aiding and abetting Islamic jihad and Islamic anti-Semitism.

Front Page Magazine, 22 December 2009

‘Vile and racist desecration’ of French mosque

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Castres mosquePolice say assailants have scrawled a Nazi slogan and hung pig feet on a mosque in southern France. Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux has denounced the “vile and racist desecration” of the mosque in the town of Castres.

Police say the swastika in black paint and slogans including Hitler salute “Sieg Heil” in German, “France to the French” in French, and “White Power” in English were scrawled on the mosque.

Hortefeux said Sunday any person found responsible for the overnight desecration should be “severely punished.”

Associated Press, 13 December 2009

See also Le Poireau Rouge, 13 December 2009

BNP links with Scottish Defence League exposed

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SDL demonstratorsLinks between the BNP and the right-wing Scottish Defence League can today be exposed by the Sunday Herald.

Both groups have publicly tried to distance themselves from each other, with the BNP claiming it would expel members found to be active in the Scottish Defence League (SDL) and its English counterpart, the EDL.

But one long-standing BNP member in Scotland told the Sunday Herald the party and the SDL shared many members and supporters, adding that the threat of expulsion was merely “a publicity thing” designed to placate the media. He said: “I am a member of the BNP and a supporter of the Scottish Defence League. A lot of the supporters are the same.”

On the threat of expulsion, he added: “That is a publicity thing. We both have the same views on radical Islam and we both don’t want Sharia law in Britain. We created our group [the SDL] to support what was happening down south with the English Defence League. I couldn’t say that the SDL was set up by BNP activists, but I was one of the early ones to support it.”

The claim that the expulsion threat was a publicity stunt was dismissed as “preposterous” by the party’s national press spokesman, who questioned the authenticity of the member who made the allegation.

However, information gathered by David Miller, a professor of sociology at the University of Strathclyde and a co-founder of the campaigning website Spinwatch, alleges that at least three BNP members are also Defence League supporters.

One is BNP Scotland member John Wilkinson. He leafleted on behalf of the party in the run-up to the European Elections, and is involved with running the SDL website. SDL supporter Iain Brooks, from Glasgow, is also listed on a leaked BNP membership list. And Adam Lloyd, the BNP organiser for Bridgend in Wales, is another listed as an SDL supporter, according to Prof Miller.

Sunday Herald, 13 December 2009

SIOE Harrow protest: fifteen Islamophobes respond to Gash’s call

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SIOE Harrow

An anti-Islamic protest near a north-London mosque has passed peacefully with no arrests.

Fifteen members of Stop Islamification of Europe (SIOE) protested near Harrow Central Mosque against plans for a new mosque nearby. About 200 members of Unite Against Fascism also gathered but a large police presence prevented the groups approaching the mosque or each other.

Ahead of Sunday’s demonstration, SIOE said it planned a peaceful protest against the building of a five-storey mosque next to the Station Road mosque. Leader Stephen Gash previously said he would only organise a protest if 2,000 SIOE supporters pledged to turn up.

BBC News, 13 December 2009

Still, Gash can take consolation in the fact that the actual turnout was a mere 1,985 supporters short of that figure.

Update:  See UAF report.

Ken Livingstone speaks out to defend Harrow mosque from anti-Muslim bigots

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UAF Harrow Dec09

Ken Livingstone, chair of Unite Against Fascism and former mayor of London, spoke out today to condemn the anti-Muslim bigots who are threatening to march on Harrow Central Mosque this Sunday. UAF has called a solidarity demonstration on the day to defend the mosque, which was previously targeted by racists in September this year.

Livingstone said: “These protests and the ones by the English Defence League around the country are violent and overtly anti-Muslim. If anyone were to call a demonstration outside a synagogue or church this would rightly provoke a national outcry. There should be exactly the same response from the government, politicians, all religious faiths and the media to the call for a demonstration outside a mosque.

“The only possible meaning of this event is a protest against Muslims and Islam – a religion followed by more than a billion people across the world. People should wake up to the fact that these protests outside mosques are taking us back to the 1930s when fascist thugs marched against Jews and their places of worship. This demonstration should be condemned and banned on the grounds of being blatant religious discrimination and a threat to public order.”

Weyman Bennett, joint secretary of Unite Against Fascism, added: “Sunday’s anti-Muslim protest, the racist demonstrations by the English Defence League, and the rabid Islamophobia of the Nazi BNP are all linked together. We are seeing a rising tide of racism in society aided and abetted by fascist and Nazi groups. We have to take a stand against this poison that threatens our multiracial and multicultural society. That is why we urge all anti-racists to join the UAF solidarity protest in Harrow on Sunday.”

The UAF demonstration assembles at 12 noon on Sunday 13 December, outside Harrow Civic Centre on Station Road directly opposite the mosque (nearest tube: Harrow & Wealdstone).

UAF press release, 11 December 2009

Jewish community hits out at ‘divisive’ anti-Muslim protesters

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Leading members of Harrow’s Jewish community have joined together to condemn anti-Muslim campaigners who are planning a protest in the borough this weekend. Rabbis Aaron Goldstein, Hillel Athias-Robles, Kathleen Middleton, Frank Dabba Smith, and Michael Hilton have signed a letter offering unequivocal support for the borough’s Muslim community.

They wrote: “As leaders of the Jewish community in Harrow, we are writing to express our support for our Muslim friends and neighbours, especially those at Harrow Central Mosque, who are under attack from those whose only purpose is to spread hatred and fear. We share the desire of the Muslim community of Harrow to respect our mutual traditions, to learn from each other’s cultures and ways of life, and to live together in peace.”

The Rabbis, from Northwood and Pinner Liberal Synagogue, Middlesex New Synagogue, Harrow and Wembley Progressive Synagogue, and Kol Chai Hatch End Jewish Community, used the letter to condemn Stop Islamisation of Europe, who are planning a protest outside the mosque in Station Road on Sunday, December 13.

The show of unity from the Jewish community is in defiance of a direct appeal by SIOE on its website for 1,000 Jews bearing the Israeli flag to turn up. However, the Rabbis hit out at SIOE’s “outrageous lies” which are “entirely without foundation” and accused the self-confessed islamaphobic organisation of spreading hatred and violence to divide the Harrow community.

Harrow Times, 7 December 2009

See also Watford Observer, 8 December 2009