Category Archives: Far right racists

Former North Yorkshire Ukip canvasser arrested over racist Facebook posts

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Tony Nixon threat to mosques

A former Ukip canvasser who allegedly posted anti-Muslim comments and racist pictures online has been arrested.

Police quizzed pensioner Tony Nixon in connection with a Facebook account containing jokes about destroying mosques, setting Muslims on fire and running over people from Pakistan with a bus.

The 66-year-old, of Great Broughton, near Stokesley, North Yorkshire, was arrested by Stokesley police on suspicion of stirring up racial hatred under the Public Order Act. He was released on bail while inquiries continue.

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EDL send messages of hate as leaders call for peace after Muswell Hill Islamic centre is burnt to the ground

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Al-Rahma Islamic Centre fire (2)

The leaders of an Islamic centre destroyed in a suspected fire bomb attack offered an olive branch to the culprits in a gesture of peace of just hours after the blaze.

Sayed Bana, 60, a committee member at the Somali Bravanese Centre in Muswell Hill, invited the thugs behind the blaze to end their campaign of violence and come to the negotiating table as the cross community hub lay in ruins.

He said: “To the perpetrators of this attack I say, forget about what you are doing and come join us in a dialogue and let’s move forward to a future without violence. I’m not angry at those behind the attack, I feel sad for them.”

His call for calm came despite English Defence League supporters taking to social media sites to praise the apparent attack and call for further attacks on the Muslim community. One user wrote on the Yorkshire-Leeds EDL Division Facebook page: “Crying shame, if only it had been full.” Another added on the same page: “Next time do one at 3pm on a Friday afternoon.”

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North London mosque attack: Time to treat Islamophobia seriously

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The Muslim Council of Britain today expressed its shock at the reported firebomb attack of a North London mosque in the early hours of this morning. Fire crews are said to have seen the words ‘EDL’ scrawled on the side of the building.

Farooq Murad, Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain said: “This is the latest in a series of attacks on Muslim institutions since the horrific murder of Drummer Lee Rigby. The British Muslim community came out in droves to condemn this murder, and it is despicable that Muslims should be held to account and suffer in this way.”

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Racist graffiti at Leeds site that will be Muslim centre

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Lingfield graffiti

Racist graffiti has been daubed on a former pub that is being turned into an Muslim-run community centre in Leeds. Unknown vandals spray painted Islamophobic remarks and racist jibes on the walls and windows of the long-abandoned Lingfield pub, in Lingfield Drive, Moortown, overnight on Friday.

Plans for the UK Islamic Mission (UKIM) charity to turn the site into a public gym, IT suite, library, training room, café and prayer room for up to 70 people, were passed by Leeds City Council in February.

It is the second time the building has been targeted by vandals – the words “no mosque” were sprayed on the building before a council meeting discussed the plans earlier this year.

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Pupils withdrawn from trip to Edinburgh mosque

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Edinburgh Central MosqueA race row has broken out after almost a third of the children due to take part in a school field trip to a city mosque were pulled out by their parents.

Children from Newtongrange Primary visited the Central Mosque in Potterrow, but from an original group of 90 pupils, 28 were withdrawn.

The trip had been organised to help educate the primary one, two and five pupils about other religions and cultures. But one parent today said they didn’t want their child “mixed up in the hate being preached in mosques”.

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Police probe mosque blaze amid fears ‘firebomb attack’ is Woolwich revenge

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Bravanese Centre fire

Counter-terrorism police are investigating a blaze that destroyed a mosque today amid fears that it was firebombed in revenge for the Woolwich murder of Drummer Lee Rigby. Fire crews reported seeing the letters EDL scrawled on the building’s side as they battled the blaze in Muswell Hill.

Scotland Yard said it was treating the fire at the Somali community centre as suspicious and the Counter Terrorism Command was leading the inquiry. Fire crews were called to the Somali Bravanese Welfare Association in Coppetts Road at 3.15am and took nearly an hour and a half to get the blaze under control. The two-storey building, housing the Al-Rahma Islamic Centre and listed as a mosque, was completely destroyed.

A prominent member of the far-Right protest group English Defence League said: “Just because EDL is written on the wall, you can’t point the finger at us. It could have been anyone. The Government is not doing anything so people are taking things into their own hands. I don’t condemn this.”

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Anger as EDL plans return to Sheffield

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Shopkeepers fear they may have to close as hundreds of English Defence League members plan a second gathering in Sheffield this weekend.

Tommy Robinson, leader of the far right group, said the event will take place from 1pm on Saturday and involve a “peaceful walk” into Barker’s Pool. Nearly 600 people on the group’s Facebook page said they would be attending.

Robinson, real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, said he planned the second gathering after claiming to be “sickened” when anti-fascist demonstrators disrupted a planned walk and wreath laying “in memory of Drummer Lee Rigby” at the war memorial in Barker’s Pool last week. Robinson said his members were “just normal people” wanting to remember the murdered soldier.

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Breivik admirers to stand trial on race hate charges

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Breivik 2083Two terror suspects are to go on trial accused of waging a campaign of hate against Muslims in Devon.

Tobias Ruth, 18, and John Roddy, 20, allegedly daubed mosques and cultural centres with racist graffiti. The pair are also said to have sent threatening letters to Islamic organisations located around Torbay and Brixham.

Roddy is accused of possessing terrorist literature including an Al Qaida manual and a document entitled A European Declaration of Independence. He and Ruth were arrested at their homes in Torquay last January 3.

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