Pig’s feet thrown into Stockholm mosque, windows smashed

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Fittja MosquePolice suspect vandalism after pig’s trotters were thrown into a mosque near Stockholm after the windows of the building’s main door were smashed in on Monday morning.

“Shortly before 11am we received a call from the mosque” in Fittja, police official Ulf Lindgren told AFP. “The person had just arrived and found pig’s trotters inside.” In Islam, pork meat is considered impure. “We have classified this as an act of vandalism,” Lindgren said. “But insofar as it is pig’s trotters, it could be something else.”

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Hate DVD is sent to the Acton mosque where terror suspect escaped

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Abdul Maalik Tailor with hate DVD

The mosque visited by a terror suspect who evaded police by wearing a burka has received a second hate DVD. It arrived through the post the morning after the mosque held an open evening for the public to learn more about Islam to help dispel fears that the faith nurtured extremists and terrorists.

Abdul Maalik Tailor, an interfaith outreach worker at the An-Noor mosque, said the open evening on Monday had an exhibition about Islam and that women who wore the face veil were there to answer any questions.

But on Tuesday morning the mosque in Church Road, Acton, received a second copy of a DVD it was sent in August. It contains footage of a fake skull with the words “Prophet Mohamed” scrawled across. Offensive words are held underneath it before it is cut with scenes from a pornographic film and a BBC Newsnight report about a banned extremist group.

Mr Tailor said: “The evening was to show people who we really are. We’re not a threat to society. People really liked it. To be sent the DVD again is upsetting. All we can do is keep trying and we’re planning to have more open days. This just shows we have more work to do.”
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Blackburn: EDL supporters in mile-long racist graffiti spree

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Blackburn graffiti clean-upRacists vandals sprayed vehicles, homes, and businesses in a mile-long spree across part of Blackburn at the weekend.

Walls, lamposts, cars, and vans were daubed with red paint in the attacks, which are believed to have happened between midnight on Friday and 4.30am on Saturday.

Some of the vehicles were sprayed with red lines, but other graffiti read ‘EDL’, while walls and lamposts were marked with racist language and profanity.

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Six European far-right groups join forces on anti-immigration, anti-Islamic platform

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Strache posterSix European far-right parties are joining forces ahead of EU-wide elections in May, in a bid to contain Brussels and take back national powers, Austria’s Freedom Party (FPOe) announced Monday.

Representatives of France’s Front National (FN), Italy’s Lega Nord, the Sweden Democrats, Belgium’s Vlaams Belang and the Slovak National Party met Friday in Vienna to discuss an alliance that will put Europe “back on the right track,” FPOe leader Heinz-Christian Strache told reporters.

“There are many important patriotic parties in Europe that have recognised problems and are prepared to work together,” he said. After European parliamentary elections in May, there is a “real chance that with the partnership that we’re working on we can have a strong parliamentary group,” he added. The alliance will be formalised after all party leaders have met. Strache did not say when this might occur.

The Vienna meeting came just two days after FN leader Marine Le Pen and Dutch anti-Islamic leader Geert Wilders announced a “historic” alliance of eurosceptic parties to fight the EU elections. Wilders’s PVV party was not present in Vienna but Strache said he would soon meet with the notorious Dutch politician.

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BNP exploits Lee Rigby murder

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British National Party leader Nick GriffA clutch of British National Party supporters have gathered outside the Old Bailey, replete with black banners and images of the hangman’s noose, demanding the restoration of the death penalty for soldier Lee Rigby’s alleged killers.

Calling themselves “Veterans Against the Islamification of the UK”, roughly a dozen protesters stood outside the criminal court, where the two men accused of murdering Fusilier Rigby are due to appear.

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HuffPo whitewashes EDL

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Kevin Smith Ed Thompson photoWith Mehdi Hasan as its political editor, the Huffington Post UK has generally played a positive role in exposing the violent bigotry of the English Defence League.

However, it would appear that Mehdi has taken his eye off the ball, because the HuffPo has just published a photo essay on the EDL, introduced by Chris York and featuring the work of Ed Thompson, who we are told “spent three years documenting EDL rallies, attempting to get beyond the typical portrayal shown in the media”.

What this means, it turns out, is that Thompson rejects the established image of the EDL as an organisation infested with racists and thugs. His photos are accompanied by comments that show what could charitably be described as astonishing ignorance and naivety about the character of the organisation he’s been photographing.

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Racist graffiti found on Islamic tombstones, nearby structures, in Jerusalem

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Israeli sources reported Sunday that a number of extremist Israeli youths invaded an Islamic graveyard in occupied Jerusalem, broke tombstones and wrote racist graffiti on tombstones and buildings adjacent to the graveyard.

The sources said that the settlers wrote “Death to Arabs”, “Revenge” and “Price Tag” on a number of graves and buildings, and drew the Star of David, the Maan News Agency has reported.

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Bulgarians march against neo-Nazi xenophobia

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Sofia anti-fascist demonstration (2)

Scores of Bulgarians gathered in front of the National Palace of Culture in Sofia for a protest rally against a rising tide of xenophobia and far-right political activism in the country.

Summoned under the slogan “Danger! Fascism!”, the march walked to the Palace of Justice at the other end of the Vitosha Blvd. Protesters, who as the rally went on, grew to several hundred, carried signs such as “Fascism kills, those in power hide,” “Fascism is not an opinion but a crime,” and chanted “No to violence!”

The rally is in response to a rise of violent acts against foreign immigrants and Bulgarians of non-Bulgarian ethnicity in the country.

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