Category Archives: UK

Teenager accused of spraying EDL graffiti on mosque

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A teenager accused of spraying racially-aggravated graffiti on the wall of a community centre used as a mosque is due to go on trial in August.

The 17-year-old, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, pleaded not guilty to two charges of committing racially or religiously-aggravated criminal damage at Leicester Magistrates’ Court this morning.

The offences – including spraying the letters EDL and crossed lines, and damaging windows and charity clothing collection bins – are alleged to have been committed on May 13 and June 11 at Oadby Community Centre, in Sandhurst Street, Oadby. The building is used as a place of worship by the local Muslim community.

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Birmingham: Appeal for more action on hate crimes after mosque attacks

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Redditch Central Mosque graffiti

West Midlands Police has been urged to log Islamophobic hate crimes as a separate category following a series of attacks on mosques. The call comes as the anti-Muslim campaign group the English Defence League is gearing up for a demonstration in Birmingham City Centre on Saturday, July 20.

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Another Nazi in the EDL

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Aryan English threatens 'Muslim scum'

His name is Steve Crispin, and he has adopted “Aryan English” as his Facebook identity. EDL News has the details. You may remember Crispin. He was the thug who was was jailed last year for his part in an attack on two Muslims during an EDL anti-mosque protest in Dagenham in 2011, in the course of which he kicked one of the victims and fractured his jaw.

Man who threatened to ‘kill all Muslims’ in wake of Lee Rigby murder gets off with fine

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A man who threatened to kill all Muslims during a racist tirade in the wake of the murder of Lee Rigby has been slapped with a £120 fine. Peter Levers, 33, of Circular Road, Staveley, was caught by police shouting at a taxi driver, and said “Muslims, I’ll kill them all.”

Chesterfield Magistrates court heard how Levers had been out drinking for around 16 hours, before the incident on Cavendish Street at 4.25am on May 24. Prosecuting, Belinda Ariss told the court he had asked police officers to take him home because he wanted to get in a car with a white driver and was “extremely drunk” at the time of the offence. Levers pleaded guilty to racially aggravated harrassment at the hearing on June 24.

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Newport police probing Muslim grave daubing ‘confident’

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Newport cemetery graffiti(4)Police investigating racist graffiti on Muslim graves in Newport are pursuing a number of leads and the officer in charge of the case is positive the culprits will be caught.

Members of Newport’s Muslim community joined police officers and councillors at Christchurch Cemetery yesterday.

Vandals used white paint to write “Lee Rigby murder,” “white power” and drew swastikas on four gravestones at the weekend. Initials of the British National Party (BNP), the UK Independence Party (UKIP) and the National Front (NF) were also smeared, as well as racist slogans.

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Marine Le Pen expected to face charges for incitement to racial hatred

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Marine Le Pen, the leader of France’s far-right Front National, is expected to face charges of incitement to racial hatred in France after the European parliament voted to lift her parliamentary immunity.

The French state prosecutor in Lyon had asked the European parliament to lift Le Pen’s protection from prosecution as an MEP so she could face charges over a speech in 2010 in which she likened Muslim street prayers to the Nazi occupation of France.

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East Lancashire mosque burglars jailed for 22 years

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A plot to burgle mosques and businesses across East Lancashire has seen six men, including three brothers, jailed for more than 22 years.

Worshippers at Plane Tree Road mosque in Little Harwood were left distraught after intruders not only rifled their safe for money, but also stole irreplaceable marriage registers and their original constitution. It also emerged that one of the break-ins led to a Knuzden firm missing out on a £1million contract.

Passing sentence of the gang at Preston Crown Court, Judge Christopher Cornwall said: “To desecrate such a building by making a forcible entry and stealing from a safe is appalling and despicable conduct.”

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Grimsby EDL supporter convicted of religiously aggravated threatening behaviour – Muslim defence lawyer launches attack on media

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A Grimsby solicitor has launched a scathing attack on the media and politicians for “inflaming” hostility towards Muslims after the brutal murder soldier Lee Rigby in London. Ghaff Khan strongly criticised the use of words like “Islamists” and “Islamic – and claimed that comments over people’s origins were not used when “other heinous crimes” were committed by non-Muslims.

He launched his broadside during a court case which featured mentions of the Grimsby mosque at the centre of an arson attack and references to the English Defence League. Christopher Rodger, 25, of Lime Street, Grimsby, admitted using religiously aggravated threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour on June 8.

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