Category Archives: UK

Thousands of people sign anti-Worcester Park mosque petition

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More than 3,500 people have signed a petition against a mosque being built in Worcester Park.

An Islamic association wants to convert the disused Bank Chambers building in Green Lane into a car-free mosque. But campaigners who do not believe the group’s claims that no-one will travel to the proposed mosque by car have organised a petition and collected more 3,737 signatures.

Plans to turn the derelict building into a mosque were rejected by Sutton Council in December on the grounds it would bring too much traffic to the area. But the new plans, from Cunnane Town Planning LLP, claim “extensive travel planning procedures” will mean people do not drive to the building.

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Jewish patrol group Shomrim offers protection to mosques amid rise in hate attacks

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Hackney Jewish-Muslim meeting

A Jewish “police force” has offered protection to mosques in Hackney, following a spate of violent attacks on mosques. Shomrim, a uniformed Jewish patrol in Stamford Hill who are trained by the Met, patrol the area regularly looking for anti-Semitic hate crimes, and general disorder in the neighbourhood.

The volunteer group, similar to a Neighbourhood Watch, are trained to safely track and detain suspects until police arrive, and run a 24-hour hotline for those in the area to report attacks. The group was started by Jewish New Yorkers angry at lengthy police response times after crimes were reported.

Mosque elders met this weekend with Shomrim in the Cazenove Road Mosque and Community Centre to discuss cooperation between the two communities.

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Bomb disposal experts are called to mosque in Walsall after suspicious item discovered

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Aisha Mosque Walsall

Bomb disposal experts have been called to a mosque after the discovery of a suspicious item by a member of the public.

A police spokesman confirmed the suspicious item was reported to officers at 10.45pm on Saturday after it was found by a member of the public. Army experts ordered the evacuation of nearly 40 homes near the Rutter Street mosque in Walsall, West Midlands Police said.

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Croydon Council leader calls for anti-Islam protest to be banned

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edl section 14The leader of Croydon Council has called for a planned rally by right-wing extremists to be banned.

The English Volunteer Force (EVF) plans to protest outside the headquarters of the UK Border Agency (UKBA), in Wellesley Road, on July 27. The EVF, which claims to fight “the Islamification of Great Britain”, has said “all patriots are welcome” and has admitted it is likely to spark counter-protests from anti-fascists.

The move has angered many, with council leader Mike Fisher calling for the rally to be banned, stating: “We do not need this additional tension in Croydon.”

Originally it was reported members of the EVF were planning a march from Lunar House to the Croydon Mosque in London Road, Thornton Heath, but the group’s leader Jason Lock said the idea had been dropped in favour of a demonstration.

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How Pamela Geller incites race hate in the UK

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Geller UK teen brutally beaten by 15 Muslims headline

Over at Exposing the English Defence League, Julie Blackadder draws our attention to a recent post at Pamela Geller’s Atlas Shrugs blog, headlined “UK teen brutally beaten by 15 Muslims”.

A week ago Geller reproduced a report from the Dewsbury newspaper The Press, detailing an alleged attack by a group of youth of Asian heritage on a 14-year-old white boy, Joseph Haigh, in the West Yorkshire village of Thornhill, which was said to have taken place “on Friday night”. She told her readers: “The police did not classify this savage attack as ‘racially’ (Islamically) motivated, but the police arrested an 85-year-old woman after she yelled ‘go back to your own country’ outside Gillingham mosque in the wake of the Woolwich beheading.”

From which we can only conclude that Geller believes that yelling “go back to your own country” at Muslims is acceptable behaviour and that her co-thinkers in the UK should be free to shout such racist abuse without fear of arrest.

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Grimsby man who called for mosque to be burned down on far-right forum ‘did not know what the EDL stood for’

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Steven Ballard FacebookThe man who posted a message on Facebook urging people to “burn the mosque” to “put Grimsby on the map big time” has urged people to think twice before using social networking sites. Steven Ballard apologised for the offensive remark he left on the forum which resulted in him ending up in court.

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EDL man is locked up for Nazi salute at memorial

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Kevin Reed nazi salute

A man seen by hundreds of people doing a Nazi salute during a three-hour stand-off at Colchester war memorial has been jailed for two months.

Kevin Reed attended an English Defence League demonstration at the Cowdray Crescent memorial on June 1, when about 60 members were met by anti-fascist demonstrators. The protestors were opposed to the group’s plans to lay a wreath to mark the death of soldier Drummer Lee Rigby, who was killed in Woolwich three weeks ago. Unemployed Reed responded to anti-EDL chants, using the offensive salute and racist language outside the Castle pub.

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Footballer Shaun Tuck charged over mosque tweets

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Shaun TuckA Merseyside footballer who allegedly encouraged people to riot and “bomb and gas every mosque in England” following the terrorist beheading of Drummer Lee Rigby has been charged by police. Witton Albion striker Shaun Tuck is to face magistrates in Liverpool next month accused of an offence under Section 127 of the Communications Act 2003.

Tuck, 26, of of Mollington Avenue, Norris Green, is alleged to have used his Twitter account to rage: “All the mosque’s in England now should be bombed or gassed out!!!… Or stormed by 50 lads machetes, swords the lot. An make a statement. Am raging in me loft here yno… Got the balaclava out, dusted down an ready for the meet. I’d be going through there door mate an taking there kids head off an killing whoever was in site!!”

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