After Google cut-off a Gmail account created by PVV leader Geert Wilders for his anti-Islam bumper sticker project, the politician registered a domain with Danish webhost One.com and used it to create a new email address for distributing the stickers. The hosting company says they do not have plans to follow Google’s lead and shut down the account for offensive content, a company executive said.
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Vendôme: Turkish community targeted with racist and fascist graffiti
Des Dômes Et Des Minarets reports that on Sunday night a number of Muslim-owned buildings in the town of Vendôme, in the Loir-et-Cher department in central France, suffered graffiti attacks.
Swastikas and racist slogans (such as “I love Whites”) were sprayed in black paint on the walls of a mosque and Turkish restaurants and cafes. Around a dozen examples were found, all in the same paint and handwriting.
EDL to protest against Islamification of small Lincolnshire town with tiny Muslim community
The English Defence League is set to hold a protest rally in Sleaford close to a building that is set to be transformed into a Muslim prayer hall.
Lincolnshire Police have been contacted by the EDL who have expressed a wish to hold a protest in the town on January 11. The protest has been announced via Facebook and is planned to be held on the small North Kesteven District Council car park opposite the railway station on Station Road, starting at 1.30pm.
In November the district council decided to allow planning permission for Grantham and Sleaford Muslim Association to create a prayer hall in a redundant brick storage shed/workshop. Members of the EDL have not expressly stated the reason for January’s proposed action.
Google drops Wilders’ anti-Islam Gmail account
Google has deactivated the islamsticker@gmail Gmail account politician Geert Wilders was using to spread his anti-Islam stickers. The deactivation was probably prompted by the many complaints Wilders’ umpteenth anti-Islam initiative had prompted.
It was the politician himself who reported via Twitter on Boxing Day that his account had been closed. “Unbelievable; Google just blocked the account. It seems Mohammed Rabbae’s complaint was successful,” he tweeted. Rabbae had complained at Google that Wilders was abusing its service.
UK anti-Muslim hate crime soars, police figures show
Hate crimes against Muslims have soared in the UK this year, figures show.
Hundreds of anti-Muslim offences were carried out across the country in 2013, with Britain’s biggest force, the Metropolitan police, recording 500 Islamophobic crimes.
Many forces reported a surge in the number of anti-Muslim hate crimes after the murder of soldier Lee Rigby by two Islamic extremists in Woolwich, south-east London, in May.
But the figures could be much higher as nearly half of the 43 forces in England and Wales did not reveal how many hate crimes had targeted Muslims. Some forces admitted they did not always record the faith of a religious hate-crime victim.
Freedom of Information requests were sent by the Press Association to every police force in England and Wales. Of the 43 forces, 24 provided figures on the number of anti-Muslim crimes and incidents recorded.
Woman accused of headbutting cop after EDL rally
A woman accused of trying to headbutt a police officer after a protest march by right-wing groups in South Tyneside will stand trial next year.
Hollie Smallwood denies obstructing or resisting a police officer in the execution of their duty, and being drunk and disorderly in a public place. The two charges relate to a march through South Shields by members of the English Defence League (EDL) and the North East Infidels on Saturday, August 31.
Pig’s head and ears left at Besançon mosque
AFP reports that last Sunday morning a pig’s head and several pig’s ears were found outside the Souna Mosque in Besançon, which had previously been the target of Islamophobic acts.
Only last month a swastika and the slogan “Long live the FN” (Front National) were painted on the wall. The mosque had suffered an earlier graffiti attack in August when an SS sign, a Celtic cross, an Odal rune and the words “Vive la France” were sprayed on the building. In February, Star of David graffiti was daubed on the mosque.
Police patrols have been stepped up around the premises.
Telegraph provokes arson threats against Lewisham Islamic Centre
Yesterday saw the jailing of three men for the firebombing of Grimsby Mosque following the murder of Lee Rigby last May. As we pointed out, the arson attack on the mosque was preceded by calls on the Facebook page of the English Defence League’s Grimsby division for the building to be burned down.
Earlier yesterday, in the immediate aftermath of the conviction and sentencing of Lee Rigby’s murderers, the Daily Telegraph saw fit to publish an inflammatory report, based on no evidence at all, that Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale “had links with the Lewisham Islamic Centre in south-east London, less than six miles from the Woolwich street where they murdered the soldier”.
Online hate and the Grimsby Mosque firebombing
The prison sentences handed down to Stuart Harness, Gavin Humphries and Daniel Cressey, who launched a firebomb attack on Grimsby Mosque and Islamic Cultural Centre last May, are very welcome.
As the judge pointed out in sentencing them, the substantial prison terms handed out to the three arsonists – six years each for Harness and Humphries, three for Cressey – were intended to serve not just as an appropriate punishment for the perpetrators themselves but also as a deterrent to other violent racists who might be inclined to follow them.
Although there is no evidence of direct links between the three men and the English Defence League, it should be noted that their firebombing of Grimsby Mosque was preceded by an online campaign by local EDL supporters calling for an arson attack on the building.
Wilders anti-Islam sticker met with anger
A tweet from PVV leader Geert Wilders featuring an Anti-Islam slogan written in Arabic has drawn the ire of many on the social network.
Wilders, who last week told the BBC, “A responsible politician I believe never stirs up any problems in any society,” was showing off a bumper sticker affixed to his office door.
The sticker is designed to look like the flag of Saudi Arabia, and says, “Islam is a lie. Mohammed is a crook. The Quran is poison,” reports Hart van Nederland. Wilders tweeted out an email address where the sticker may be ordered for free.