Reports and comment from Islamophobia Watch 26 May-1 June 2014

• Six Birmingham schools face censure by Ofsted after Trojan Horse inquiry  1 June 2014
• Walk Against Islamophobia in Dallas  1 June 2014
• Man arrested at EDL protest set to face trial  31 May 2014
• Peter Robinson should make public apology, says speaker at Belfast anti-racism rally  31 May 2014
• Reykjavík: Progressives could get seat on city council  30 May 2014
• Ofsted inspectors make U-turn on ‘Trojan Horse’ school, leak shows  30 May 2014
• The smear campaign against Lutfur Rahman is an insult to democracy  30 May 2014
• Michael Piggin trial collapses after jury fails to reach verdicts  30 May 2014
• Why I stand by my decision to send my son to Park View academy  30 May 2014
• Britain’s Muslim Brotherhood review still poses puzzling questions  30 May 2014
• Luton Muslim school demands Ofsted re-inspection over ‘extremism’ claims  29 May 2014
• Terry Jones plans another visit to Dearborn  29 May 2014
• How do I tell my daughter that people across Europe fear minorities like us?  29 May 2014
• Cameron urged to reconsider ‘review’ of Muslim Brotherhood  29 May 2014
• Row after Robinson backs ‘Islam’ sermon  28 May 2014
• Expelled from UKIP, Dave Small declares ‘I shall never apologise to the poofs and perverts and certainly not the foreigners’  28 May 2014
• ‘Jihad’ against Cadbury? The only threats of violence are against Muslims  28 May 2014
• Islam is to blame for attack on Jewish Museum in Brussels, Czech president claims  27 May 2014
• Leicester man jailed for 16 months over racist rants  27 May 2014
• Ex-Muslims’ campaign of hatred against iERA  27 May 2014
• Three-week public inquiry into West Ham ‘mega-mosque’ to launch  27 May 2014
• Racism on the rise in Britain  27 May 2014
• UKIP suspends Councillor Dave Small  27 May 2014
• Second Dudley mosque appeal allowed amid political motivation allegations  27 May 2014
• Presbyterian moderator slams Pastor’s Islam comments  26 May 2014
• Daily Record profiles Jim Dowson of Britain First  26 May 2014
• Iceland: Progressive Party in hot water over anti-mosque comment  26 May 2014
• ‘I am a British citizen – not a second-class citizen’  26 May 2014

Reports and comment from Islamophobia Watch 19-25 May 2014

• Brisbane: Christian college rejects student teachers who wore hijab  25 May 2014
• New UKIP councillor thinks Muslims bring disease  24 May 2014
• Tower Hamlets rejects Islamophobic witch-hunt, re-elects Lutfur Rahman  24 May 2014
• Finsbury Park mosque today  24 May 2014
• The religious zealot who hands Bibles to Muslims  24 May 2014
• Jews Against Islamophobia hold protest against 9/11 museum film  23 May 2014
• Britain First stage intimidatory march in Brick Lane  23 May 2014
• New York Times publishes Islamophobic ad by anti-Islam group  22 May 2014
• European election upset for Wilders  22 May 2014
• Evangelical Christian minister backs James McConnell, says Islam promotes killing of non-Muslims  22 May 2014
• Queensland rejects anti-niqab bill  22 May 2014
• Meet Gerard Batten, the UKIP MEP scare-mongering about Islam, immigrants and Bilderberg  21 May 2014
• Belfast pastor James McConnell denounces Islam as the devil’s doctrine  21 May 2014
• Luton school head says he will challenge ‘half-baked’ Ofsted report  21 May 2014
• EDL rally in Birmingham: Sixteen men admit violent disorder  21 May 2014
• Man arrested over Trowbridge mosque arson threat  21 May 2014
• Michael Gove calls for further schools investigations after Trojan Horse affair  21 May 2014
• ‘Race hate’ arsonists burn down Birmingham community centre  21 May 2014
• English Defence League set to march in Stevenage  20 May 2014
• MCB calls on authorities to safeguard mosques against far-right ‘invasion’  20 May 2014
• Montreal police arrest man during arson attack on Muslim community centre  20 May 2014
• Britain First ‘invasion’ FAIL  19 May 2014
• Bishop refuses to take action over vicar’s ‘creeping Islamisation’ article, says he ‘would not wish to discourage’ such views  19 May 2014
• Lord Carey wonders whether there is ‘something fundamentally wrong with Islam at its core’  19 May 2014

Reports and comment from Islamophobia Watch 12‑18 May 2014

• Scottish Government criticised as Show Racism the Red Card’s funding reduced by two-thirds  18 May 2014
• Nick Griffin visits Bolton to protest against plans for Farnworth mosque  18 May 2014
• EDL march through Newcastle meets anti-fascist counter-protest  18 May 2014
• IUMS to issue fatwa against UK over Muslim Brotherhood inquiry  17 May 2014
• Police plan to stop English Defence League march through Newcastle’s West End  16 May 2014
• SDL members to lay wreath for Lee Rigby  16 May 2014
• ‘Trojan Horse’ takeover plot by Muslims rubbish says Trust  16 May 2014
• Anglican vicar condemns ‘invasion of halal meat’, says Christians oppose ‘the creeping Islamisation of our country’  16 May 2014
• UKIP embroiled in new row over Islamophobia  16 May 2014
• Ofsted abandons inspection of Luton school after homosexuality row  16 May 2014
• National newspaper is prejudiced and skewing halal debate, says MP  15 May 2014
• Race row erupts after Brent UKIP candidate slates Muslims in ranting email  15 May 2014
• Inside Park View academy: Religion row school ‘is victim of its success’  15 May 2014
• Washington DC: Geller is back with another anti-Islam Metro ad  15 May 2014
• NUS condemns anti-Islam group Student Rights  14 May 2014
• Let’s be honest about Britain’s Islamophobia  14 May 2014
• Call for ‘Muzzer blood’ to be spilled over plan to rebuild Farnworth mosque  14 May 2014
• US court upholds ruling against SIOA, Geller denounces appeasement of ‘Islamic supremacists’  13 May 2014
• Halal meat labelling plan rejected by MPs  13 May 2014
• Pew Research Center publishes findings on European attitudes towards migrants and Muslims  13 May 2014
• Crusade against British Muslims in education  13 May 2014
• British Veterinary Association warns against ritual slaughter debate being ‘hijacked by prejudice’  13 May 2014
• Carole Malone channels Taj Hargey  12 May 2014
• An open letter to Bill Maher from a Muslim American  12 May 2014
• The random Muslim scare story generator: separating fact from fiction  12 May 2014

Reports and comment from Islamophobia Watch 5‑11 May 2014

• Britain First fascists target Bradford mosques  11 May 2014
• EDL protest in Rotherham  11 May 2014
• Halal: not about food but fear of difference  11 May 2014
• Settlers desecrate West Bank mosque  11 May 2014
• Gove planning to abolish Muslim school inspectorates, Sunday Times reports  11 May 2014
• New York police recruit Muslims to be informers  11 May 2014
• ‘We have found Mayor Rahman to be fair, accessible and accountable’ –Tower Hamlets Citizens statement  10 May 2014
• BNP protest against ‘mosque plan’ meets opposition  10 May 2014
• ‘No Trojan Horse extremism links’ Birmingham teachers hear  10 May 2014
• Islamophobia: why do so many young men hate Muslim women?  10 May 2014
• Anti-UKIP protesters descend on Scotland rally  10 May 2014
• Tory MPs promote halal hysteria – Labour MP joins them  9 May 2014
• Yasir Qadhi on Boko Haram media coverage  9 May 2014
• Muslim woman called ‘Taliban’ during interview about anti-Muslim candidate  9 May 2014
• Vlaams Belang tries to boost election prospects with anti-Islam stunts  9 May 2014
• Six men in court over EDL violence outside Nuneaton pub  9 May 2014
• EDL member described as future killer by own mother  9 May 2014
• Unless you called Lord’s Resistance Army ‘Christianist’ stop calling Boko Haram ‘Islamist’  8 May 2014
• Channel 4′s Muslim call to prayer is top in viewer complaints tally  8 May 2014
• Stand Up to UKIP holds protest against Farage in Edinburgh  8 May 2014
• The hateful views of UKIP candidate Magnus Nielsen  8 May 2014
• Daily Mail follows Sun in stoking halal hysteria  8 May 2014
• 5 in court after EDL protest in Thatcham  7 May 2014
• Nigel Farage: UKIP is not a racist party  7 May 2014
• Has Islam-bashing tarnished ‘tolerant Britain?’  7 May 2014
• Sun exposes ‘halal secret’ of Pizza Express … except that it’s not a secret  7 May 2014
• Increased police presence for BNP anti-mosque demonstration in Hemel Hempstead  6 May 2014
• Report says Internet hate speech can lead to acts of violence  6 May 2014
• UKIP candidate Julia Reid distances herself from ‘ban Islam’ retweet  6 May 2014
• Dramatic new footage of Black Country mosque bomber’s terror training blasts released  6 May 2014
• ‘People grab our veils, call us terrorists and want us dead’: What it’s really like to be a Muslim woman in Britain  6 May 2014
• Nigel Farage to face protesters at Edinburgh rally  6 May 2014
• UK hysteria over ‘Islamist’ threat is fuelling race hate  6 May 2014
• Stand Up to UKIP holds protest against Farage  6 May 2014
• Australia’s far-right fringe groups must not be allowed to become mainstream  6 May 2014
• Fascists desecrate Meximieux mosque  5 May 2014
• Graffiti attack on Pont-de-Beauvoisin mosque  5 May 2014

Reports and comment from Islamophobia Watch 28 April-4 May 2014

• Most people believe UKIP contains racists, poll finds  4 May 2014
• ‘Non-racist’ footballer who was jailed for anti-Muslim tweets arrested over racist Facebook comments  4 May 2014
• Brentwood Conservative candidate David Bishop resigns over ‘inappropriate’ tweets  3 May 2014
• Halal search option removed from Subway website over staff safety fears  3 May 2014
• Prague: Hundreds of Muslims protest police mosque raid  3 May 2014
• Tory activist: ‘Every single Muslim should be expelled’  3 May 2014
• Farage dissociates himself from Harry Perry, but why no action against Magnus Nielsen?  3 May 2014
• New Statesman warns of threat from Islam  3 May 2014
• Man jailed for four years for mosque fire in Bletchley, Milton Keynes  3 May 2014
• Scottish Defence League members guilty of throwing bacon into mosque  2 May 2014
• UKIP election candidate probed over ‘disgusting’ homophobic and anti-Islamic Twitter messages  2 May 2014
• Dublin: Vandals tape bacon to posters of candidate with Turkish background  2 May 2014
• ‘No such thing as a benign Muslim’ says UKIP candidate  2 May 2014
• Texts read out to Edinburgh Central Mosque bacon attack jury  1 May 2014
• Is the far Right setting the Daily Mail’s agenda?  1 May 2014
• Football fans fined for tearing pages out of Qur’an at match  1 May 2014
• Merseyside mosque bomb plotter Ian Forman jailed  1 May 2014
• UKIP condemns candidate James Elgar’s ‘deplorable’ tweets about Muslims and women  1 May 2014
• Macy’s customer falsely charged with theft forced to remove hijab  1 May 2014
• Stop the Islamification of…Subway?!  1 May 2014
• Dutch Jewish groups speak out against Wilders  1 May 2014
• Camden UKIP candidate stands by anti-Islam comments  30 April 2014
• BNP to demonstrate against non-existent mosque application  30 April 2014
• Racism troubles French Muslim footballer  30 April 2014
• California: State asked to investigate religious discrimination claim  30 April 2014
• Teenagers ‘terrorised’ Muslim community in Cradley Heath  30 April 2014
• Israel: Mosque targeted in hate crime  30 April 2014
• NHS seeks cure for terrorism  30 April 2014
• ‘Ban Islam and knock down all the mosques’, urges UKIP candidate who accuses Muslims of ‘ethnic cleansing’  30 April 2014
• Wikipedia edit from government computer added Muslim insult  30 April 2014
• Secularists assist right-wing anti-sharia hysteria  30 April 2014
• Israeli forces demolish West Bank mosque as peace talks deadline passes  29 April 2014
• Greater efforts needed to prevent and respond to hate crimes against Muslims, say participants at OSCE meeting in Vienna  29 April 2014
• The 9/11 museum’s Muslim problem  29 April 2014
• Baroness Cox tells Israeli audience that ‘Islam is using the freedoms of democracy to destroy it’  29 April 2014
• Yet another Islamophobe standing for ‘non-racist’ UKIP  29 April 2014
• Muslim leaders denounce police over raids in Czech capital  29 April 2014
• Florida Senate OKs bill banning use of foreign law in family court cases  29 April 2014
• Gilligan recycles 7-year-old anti-Muslim story as new shock-horror revelation  29 April 2014
• Plymouth Islamic education centre hit in £10,000 arson attack  28 April 2014
• Paul Weston arrested on suspicion of religious or racial harassment  28 April 2014
• Edinburgh: Security guard ‘found bacon in mosque’  28 April 2014
• Australia: Far right targets Muslims with hate campaign  28 April 2014

Reports and comment from Islamophobia Watch 21-27 April 2014

• EDL-supporting UKIP candidate claims ‘Islam is organised crime under religious camouflage’  27 April 2014
• UKIP candidate compares Islam to Nazism  27 April 2014
• High street lawyers to get formal training in Islamic Sharia law  27 April 2014
• An ideological war against UK Muslims in schools?  26 April 2014
• BNP’s proposed election broadcast features vile anti-Muslim animation  26 April 2014
• Fascists allowed to use ‘Remember Lee Rigby’ slogan on Euro-election ballot papers  26 April 2014
• Operation Mum won’t stop British Muslims going to Syria. But peace will  25 April 2014
• Former chair of Texas Republican Party warns of Muslim plot to conquer USA  25 April 2014
• Rutherford County seeks high court rejection of mosque lawsuit appeal  25 April 2014
• 9/11 museum film draws heat for portrayal of Islam  25 April 2014
• Why Tarek Fatah is an Islamophobia enabler  24 April 2014
• CAIR accuses Florida Republicans of fostering anti-Muslim sentiment  24 April 2014
• Ukip member in election broadcast suspended over racist tweets  24 April 2014
• Mayoral candidate tries to exploit Mufreesboro Islamic Center controversy  24 April 2014
• The hypocrisy of Tony Blair’s Middle East vision  24 April 2014
• Syria anti-terror plan slammed by parents and community groups  24 April 2014
• This war on ‘Islamism’ only fuels hatred and violence  23 April 2014
• Ofsted hunt for Islamist ‘infiltration’ was harrowing says headteacher  23 April 2014
• Athens mosque blocked again  23 April 2014
• Far-right campaign against Muslim councillor falls flat  23 April 2014
• New probe launched into Birmingham Trojan Horse leaks  23 April 2014
• The feisty baroness defending ‘voiceless’ Muslim women  22 April 2014
• Education trust accused of Islamist ‘Trojan Horse plot’ receives hate mail  21 April 2014
• Inside the far-right group spreading fear through Muslim communities  21 April 2014

Reports and comment from Islamophobia Watch 24‑30 March 2014

• Warsi plots Islamification of UK government, NSS warns  30 March 2014
• Wilders’ party loses support following anti-Moroccan chant  30 March 2014
• Controversial cleric urges Muslims to be active in society  30 March 2014
• ‘The adoption of sharia in Britain sets a worrying precedent’  30 March 2014
• Gove broadens inquiry into ‘creeping Islam’  30 March 2014
• Anti-fascists demonstrate against EDL in Peterborough  29 March 2014
• Police make six arrests after protest against new mosque in Sunderland  29 March 2014
• Inspectors investigating Park View School accused of aggressive behaviour and bias  29 March 2014
• Iraq refugee who painted patriotic art gunned down for looking Muslim  29 March 2014
• Outrage as Irish judge claims: ‘Muslims feel they can beat their wives’  29 March 2014
• Inspectors investigating Park View School accused of aggressive behaviour and bias  29 March 2014
• Outrage as Irish judge claims: ‘Muslims feel they can beat their wives’  28 March 2014
• #NotYourTerrorist tackles anti-Muslim prejudice  28 March 2014
• Muslim prayer room signs vandalised at King’s College London  28 March 2014
• The Spectator finds a Muslim it likes  28 March 2014
• No NSA reform can fix the American Islamophobic surveillance complex  28 March 2014
• Police ready for mosque protest in Sunderland  28 March 2014
• Allegations of Islamist take over of schools are false and harming children, says governor  27 March 2014
• Woman’s suicide sparks hate fest on official EDL Facebook page  27 March 2014
• Clarion Fund’s new Islamophobic film, ‘Honor Diaries’  27 March 2014
• Newsnight’s ‘Muslim discussion’  27 March 2014
• Piggin ‘idolised’ Israeli terrorist  26 March 2014
• Soldier charged with terror offences after nail bomb found at house in Eccles  26 March 2014
• TN Tea Partiers freak out on TV reporter for covering their effort to block Muslim cemetery  26 March 2014
• EDL Girls and Muslims  26 March 2014
• ‘My hell as a white Muslim living in Bristol’: Woman says she is racially abused every day  26 March 2014
• Bullet fired at Illinois mosque during prayer service  25 March 2014
• Neo-Nazi who plotted to blow up Mersey mosques branded ‘evil’ by judge  25 March 2014
• French airforce sergeant who planned to shoot Muslims has case dismissed  25 March 2014
• Helsinki clothing store bosses fined over headscarf sacking  24 March 2014
• Sentencing delayed in case of Toronto man convicted of promoting hatred  24 March 2014
• Vlaams Belang activists chant ‘fewer, fewer’ in solidarity with Wilders  24 March 2014
• EDL call for march in defence of plans to build 300 student flats near Cambridge mosque  24 March 2014
• Planet Fitness kicked Muslim woman out for wearing head scarf: lawsuit  24 March 2014

Reports and comment from Islamophobia Watch 17‑23 March 2014

• Ten thousand join UN Anti-Racism Day demo  23 March 2014
• Peterborough: Anti-EDL march & rally, 29th March 2014 – information  23 March 2014
• ‘Être blanc en France, c’est être une cible’ – French fascist justifies graffiti attack on mosque  23 March 2014
• More sharia hysteria from the Torygraph  23 March 2014
• Montreal protest against ‘racist’ charter  22 March 2014
• Fascist group entering mosques and handing out inflammatory literature  21 March 2014
• Femen protestors disrupt Berlin Islam Week event  21 March 2014
• Jury shown videos of Michael Piggin throwing firebomb and spraying anti-Muslim graffiti  21 March 2014
• New Jersey Muslims appeal federal ruling on NYPD surveillance  21 March 2014
• Racists abuse and assault Muslim women, try to pull off hijab  21 March 2014
• Muslim and LGBTQ students unite against ‘Student Rights’ in run up to NUS conference  20 March 2014
• Michael Piggin terror plot trial shown anti-Muslim video  20 March 2014
• Wilders leads supporters in anti-Moroccan chant  20 March 2014
• West Midlands Police still looking for EDL riot suspects  19 March 2014
• The return of ‘puppy jihad’  19 March 2014
• Victoria Jackson says she is fighting for the ‘soul of America’  19 March 2014
• Muslim family booted from Empire State Building for praying  19 March 2014
• Italian mosque vandalised, Qur’an burnt  18 March 2014
• Lyon demonstration against Islamophobia  17 March 2014
• Colorado girls’ soccer team takes stand against hijab ban  17 March 2014
• EDL disrupts Islam Awareness Week event at Bournemouth University  17 March 2014
• Milton Keynes mosque fire: Richard Bevington admits arson  17 March 2014
• Haitham Al-Haddad says Islamophobia cancelled Legoland day  17 March 2014
• Stand Up to Racism and Fascism – Saturday 22 March  17 March 2014

Reports and comment from Islamophobia Watch 10‑16 March 2014

• Fake ex-terrorist is ‘keynote speaker’ at Holocaust March of Remembrance event  16 March 2014
• Lewisham Islamic Centre and ENGAGE conference next Saturday  16 March 2014
• Public prosecutor challenged to act on Wilders’ Moroccan comments  15 March 2014
• Florida International University’s Muslim Student Association wants to know who bugged prayer room  15 March 2014
• Lawyer: Oregon man fears return after FBI actions  15 March 2014
• Maajid Nawaz declares that Muslims find respect and tolerance for others reprehensible  14 March 2014
• ENGAGE meeting on press regulation  14 March 2014
• Anti-Muslim bigots freak out when Texas TV station warns of oncoming haboob  14 March 2014
• Hamilton, New Zealand: Man arrested over racial abuse and assault at mosque  14 March 2014
• Labour candidate condemns EDL’s campaign against Islamic centre in Clacton-on-Sea  14 March 2014
• Parti Quebecois candidate resigns after posting ‘F— Islam’ photo on Facebook  13 March 2014
• Catholic Church accused of hiding Cordoba Cathedral’s Islamic history  13 March 2014
• Wilders forgets he’s only supposed to be against Islam  13 March 2014
• Michael Piggin bomb plot trial jury shown weapons  12 March 2014
• Second graffiti attack on Amiens mosque  12 March 2014
• Anti-Muslim speakers still popular in law enforcement training  12 March 2014
• Times discovers that ‘Trojan horse’ letter is a crude forgery  11 March 2014
• Small Muslim community struggles with ‘terrorist’ rumors  11 March 2014
• UKIP’s alliance with extreme-right Islamophobes  11 March 2014
• German princess appears in court accused of threatening to kill Muslims and attacking fellow revellers at a posh Scots party  10 March 2014
• Islamophobic hoax exposed  11 March 2014
• Far-right Islamophobes compete for votes in Munich  10 March 2014
• Montreal rally unites faiths against ‘secularism’ charter  10 March 2014

Reports and comment from Islamophobia Watch 3‑9 March 2014

• Slough TUC condemns far-right bullying tactics over Legoland event  9 March 2014
• Why Muslims in Birmingham feel like a ‘suspect’ community  9 March 2014
• Milton Keynes mosque arson: Man charged  9 March 2014
• The FN candidate with Nazi sympathies who wants to shoot Muslims  9 March 2104
• Swedish Defence League leader jailed  8 March 2014
• EDL hold flash demo against Islamic centre in Clacton-on-Sea  8 March 2014
• Man arrested after arson attack on Milton Keynes mosque  8 March 2014
• Plot to ‘take over’ and run schools on strict Islamic principles is described as ‘malicious fabrication’  8 March 2014
• Thatcham says ‘there’s no place for EDL here’  7 March 2014
• Right-wing extremism: Germany’s new Islamophobia boom  7 March 2014
• Call for ‘solidarity’ after Stevenage mosque attack  7 March 2014
• Six arrested after firework thrown at Whitley Bay Islamic Centre  7 March 2014
• Tory MP condemns ritual slaughter as un-British  7 March 2014
• Swiss referendum: Flying the flag for nativism  7 March 2014
• Legoland Windsor closes resort hotel after further threats  6 March 2014
• Michael Piggin terrorism trial: Jury discharged  6 March 2014
• Muslim group calls for cancellation of controversial speaker at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University  6 March 2014
• Boris Johnson’s radicalisation myth-making  5 March 2014
• Freedom of Information requests show Student Rights private correspondence with universities  4 March 2014
• Court hears teen ‘armed himself with guns, explosives’  4 March 2014
• British sense of fairness vis-a-vis Muslims is on trial  4 March 2014
• Wilders helps to launch anti-Islam party in Australia  4 March 2014
• Islamic Center in Washington state is target of anti-Muslim messages  4 March 2014
• Marine Le Pen calls for strict application of secularism … to defend France’s ‘Christian roots’  3 March 2014
• Vile Britain First group visits Lancashire mosque  3 March 2014
• EDL member charged with terrorism offences is Michael Piggin  3 March 2014
• Boris throws more red meat to Tory supporters  3 March 2014