The Toronto Board of Rabbis criticized the Jewish Defense League of Canada for inviting Islam critic Pamela Geller to speak in the city.
The statement was issued just prior to Geller’s speaking engagement Monday sponsored by the group. She spoke at the Toronto Zionist Center without incident. A Chabad rabbi had uninvited Geller to speak at his suburban Toronto synagogue following intervention by police, forcing the change of venue.
This is the inflammatory post by English Defence League co-leader Kevin Carroll that appeared on his organisation’s Facebook page yesterday. Here are some examples of the responses it provoked among supporters of the “non-violent” EDL. They include calls for arson attacks on mosques and for Muslims to be stabbed, along with appeals to “burn them all” and “kill them all”.
East Midlands Anti-fascists report that an English Defence League splinter group called the East Anglian Patriots have announced they will be holding a protest in Lincoln next month against a plan to build a new mosque.
Appealing to their supporters to help “stop this muzzie infested building getting built”, the administrators of the “Stop the Lincoln Mosque” Facebook page state that although this will not be an official EDL demonstration they are “all edl on here pretty much”.
A right-wing organisation led by a former BNP councillor for Swanley has scrapped plans to protest outside a Crayford mosque this weekend.
The English National Resistance were set to rally against what it branded the “sexist and offensive” signs at North West Kent Muslim Association’s mosque in Crayford High Street on Saturday (May 18). Members are angry the building has separate entrances for men and women.
But the new group, spearheaded by Paul Golding, has now called it off – but vowed to continue the campaign to remove the signs through his other nationalist movement, Britain First.
A group set up to campaign against a prayer centre in Shrewsbury is just another BNP front. The group “Against the Shrewsbury Muslim prayer centre” is complaining that Shropshire Council has sold Column Lodge to the Shropshire Bangladesh Welfare Society in a £215,000 deal.
Al Kanz reports on a new case of mosque desecration in France.
The latest act of vandalism took place in Alsace, at Illzach, a commune of 15,000 inhabitants on the outskirts of Mulhouse.
On Saturday morning a swastika, an Odin’s cross and racist graffiti were found on the wall of the mosque, which is still under construction. The slogans read “100% pig” and “France for the French”.
Al Kanz points out that this is the fifteenth such attack on a French mosque this year and follows only a few days after a pig’s head was thrown at a mosque in Chenôve near Dijon.
Three vehicles were set on fire overnight near a mosque in the village of Umm al-Qutuf in Wadi Ara and graffiti was sprayed on the wall of the mosque, reading “price-tag” alongside a Star of David and “Eviatar,” most likely referring to Eviatar Borovsky, who was stabbed to death in the Tapuach Junction some two weeks ago.
Police forces at the scene reported to have launched an investigation into the circumstances, “including nationalistic motives,” a police source told Ynet.
Torquay road closed in January this year during terrorism search
A 20-year-old Torquay man has appeared in court charged under the Terrorism Act following an incident near the coach station earlier this year.
John Roddy, 20, of Babbacombe Road, Torquay, appeared at Exeter Magistrates Court on Tuesday morning. He was charged with possessing a document containing information useful to terrorism. The charge is brought under section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000. It alleges that on January 3 he possessed on a laptop computer ‘The al-Qaeda training manual’ and ‘2083 – A European Declaration of Independence‘.
He was also charged with distributing threatening material to stir up religious hatred between November 1, 2012 and January 4, 2013. A third charge is that between July 1, 2012 and January 4, 2013 he conspired to cause criminal damage
Far right group the English Defence League has announced plans to march through Tower Hamlets this summer. The group unveiled dates for a series marches on social networking site Facebook on Monday, with protestors planning to come to the East End on August 24. Demonstrators clashed with police during an EDL march in the area in 2011.
A new UKIP councillor in Worcestershire has sparked fury amid allegations he unleashed a series of racist abuse online. Eric Kitson, who won a seat in Stourport just 11 days ago, is facing the sack today over a whole raft of anti-Muslim, anti-Jewish Facebook posts.
Among the most shocking is a cartoon of a Muslim being spit-roasted on a fire fuelled by copies of the Koran. In one comment he said in reference to Muslim women: “Hang um all first then ask questions later.”