Category Archives: Far right racists

West Midlands Police will facilitate EDL protest in central Birmingham

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EDL Downing Street protest (2)
English Defence League protesting at Downing Street in May

West Midlands Police and Birmingham City Council are working together to prepare for a protest due to take place in Birmingham City Centre on Saturday.

Supporters of the English Defence League (EDL) are planning to stage a static protest in Centenary Square on 20 July, whilst groups in opposition to the EDL, are holding a simultaneous counter demonstration in Chamberlain Square.

These distinct and central venues have been identified to assist with a carefully planned police and council operation.

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Thug jailed for attack on Asian taxi driver he blamed for Lee Rigby murder

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A golfer who carried out a racially aggravated attack on an Asian taxi driver after wrongly linking him to the killing of Drummer Lee Rigby was jailed for seven months.

Drunk Kevin Dunne, 57, was on a golfing holiday with friends when the attack on Shabir Ahmed happened after the driver dropped them at Newport’s five-star Celtic Manor Resort around 12.15am on May 26.

Newport Crown Court heard Dunne said: “You know what happened last week in London? It was one of your brothers who done it. Where are you from?”

Mr Ahmed ignored the comment and asked for his £12 fare but Dunne gave him a handful of change and a 20 pence tip, saying: “That’s all you’re having. **** off out of here, you ******* Paki.”

Dunne then head butted him and punched him twice in the face, which loosened a tooth.

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Swedish Defence League’s anti-Muslim protest flops

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SDL Göteborg demo adYesterday the EDL’s sister organisation, the Swedish Defence League, held a protest in Göteborg under the slogan “Stop Muslim immigration”. SDL chairman Kamil Ryba explained that “Islam’s disregard for human life is so evil that it is our duty to protect and fight against this evil”.

Although it was billed as a national demonstration, Göteborgs-Posten reports that only about a dozen people turned up for the event. The SDL’s own photo of the event confirms the derisory turnout.

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EDL thugs must be prosecuted for threats to journalist – NUJ

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EDL Sarah Ann Marsall smear

Members of the English Defence League have been strongly condemned for harassment and threats of violence targeted at a young reporter.

Sarah Marshall, a trainee reporter on the Doncaster Free Press, was threatened on the Casuals United website, over an incident at an EDL rally in Sheffield six weeks ago. The website has a picture of her and the threat: “If Miss Marshall is not dealt with we will be outside Doncaster Free Press until she is.” The site gave contact details of the Doncaster Free Press.

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Manic Street Preachers take legal action against EDL

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Manic Street Preachers are taking legal action against the English Defence League for using their song ‘If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next’ to promote an upcoming demonstration in Birmingham.

Ironically, the song – taken from the band’s 1998 album ‘This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours’ – took its name from an anti-fascist slogan used during the Spanish Civil War and has now been used by the far-right group in a video about one of their demos. The song famously features the lyric: “So if I can shoot rabbits/Then I can shoot fascists”.

Michael Wongsam, the Chair of West Midlands Unite Against Fascism said in a statement: “We are appalled to discover that the racist and fascist English Defence League has used the anti-fascist song ‘If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next’ by the band the Manic Street Preachers…This song takes its title from an anti-fascist slogan used during the Spanish Civil War where anti-racists and anti-fascists from all over Europe tried to stop Franco’s fascists from taking over the country.”

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Footballer jailed over anti-Muslim tweets

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Shaun Tuck (2)Merseyside footballer Shaun Tuck was jailed after sending a string of anti-Muslim tweets in the wake of the Woolwich murder of Drummer Lee Rigby.

Tuck, 26, a former Marine FC striker who now plays for Witton Albion, in Northwich, admitted using the social network to call for mosques in the UK to be “gassed out or bombed”. The drink-fuelled online tirade also referred to beheading Muslim children and called for a riot in response to the tragedy.

Liverpool magistrates’ court was told Tuck, of Mollington Avenue, Norris Green, had been drinking after hearing the news of Drummer Rigby’s death on May 22. He tweeted the offensive messages over a number of hours on that day and in to May 23.

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‘No mosque here’ sprayed on disused bingo hall

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No mosque here graffiti

Yobs sprayed the words “no mosque here” on the side of a disused bingo hall even though there are no plans to turn it into a Muslim place of worship.

The slogan – on the former Gala bingo hall in Pitsea High Road – is believed to have arisen from rumours put about during May’s elections by far-right groups. The only planning application put forward for the site was a proposal to use it for a car wash, and that was refused by Basildon Council in January.

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Kirkcaldy Islamic Centre targeted with racist graffiti

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Kirkcaldy Islamic Centre graffiti

Extra police patrols are being sent out around a Muslim family centre in Kirkcaldy after it was targeted in a sickening hate crime.

Just hours before the start of Ramadan, the most holy festival in the Muslim calendar, anti-Islamic grafitti was spray painted on walls around the Kirkcaldy Islamic Centre in the town’s St Mary’s Road. And five vehicles belonging to members of the centre, where hundreds of Muslims go to pray as well as take part in many other community activities, were also targeted on Monday night. Crosses were painted on number plates, windows and on a bonnet.

Police in Kirkcaldy have put on extra patrols in the area and have spoken to the centre management about improving their security. And they have appealed to members of the public to report any information or suspicious behaviour in the area.

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