Fox News has further embroidered the baseless story, promoted first by the Times and then by the Daily Beast, that an attack on American student Francesco Hounye in East London earlier this year was linked to the so-called Muslim patrols.
‘Feminists’ march in support of hijab ban
Protesters marched through the streets of Montreal Saturday with a message: Quebec’s proposed charter of values would help protect women’s rights. The crowd estimated in the thousands argued the charter would help end religious oppression and ensure equality between men and women.
Why are the English Defence League going to Exeter?
You may well ask. After all, according to the 2011 census, the Muslim population of Exeter numbers a mere 1,855 – 1.6% of a total population of 117,773 – so the city is hardly under imminent threat of Islamification.
Bosses and landlords constantly snub Muslims for jobs and homes says BBC probe
Bosses and landlords are turning away Muslims, an undercover probe has found.
Two white reporters were secretly filmed applying for jobs and flats – one called Ian in western dress and another as “Mohammad” wearing Islamic styles.
Of 40 jobs ranging from newspaper delivery to shop manager Ian got 13 interviews and Mohammad only three. Vacancies he was told were “already taken” were available to his colleague. Ian was offered five flat tenancies out of 10 and Mohammad only two.
Reports and comment from Islamophobia Watch 21-27 October
Reports and comment from Islamophobia Watch 21-27 October 2013
Génération Identitaire stages anti-Islam stunt in Lorraine
Des Dômes Et Des Minarets reports on the latest anti-Muslim initiative from the French far-right group Génération Identitaire, who were responsible for a widely publicised occupation of a mosque in Poitiers last year (and presumably also for the anti-Islam banner hung from the same building earlier this month).
Following the recent announcement that the mayor and municipal council have agreed to lease a plot of land to the city’s Muslim association for the construction of a new mosque, Génération Identitaire activists in the Lorraine capital of Metz have been changing street signs, by giving them new names intended to suggest that the city is undergoing a process of Islamification.
EDL threatened innocent man
The Bucks Free Press has an interview with Jubrion Khan, acquitted earlier this year on a charge of conspiracy to rape.
Mosque at Crépy-en-Valois targeted with racist graffiti
The Collectif contre l’Islamophobie en France reports that a mosque at Crépy-en-Valois, in the Oise department in northern France, was desecrated with racist and Islamophobic graffiti last month.
The slogans included “Islam out of Europe”, “get out” and “wog”. Similar slogans were also sprayed elsewhere in the town, on the pavement and on the front of a nearby supermarket.
Stephen Lennon still thinks Muslims plan conquest of West
“‘Islam-leaning UK politicians openly forecast complete takeover of British politics’ – ex-EDL leader”. That’s the title RT has given its interview with former English Defence League leader Stephen Lennon (“Tommy Robinson”).
In the course of the interview Lennon engages in his usual lies and double-talk. He states piously that it is “a fact that I don’t hate Muslims”. However, he is later asked: “In your hometown, Luton, white Britons are actually an ethnic minority. Could that be soon the same for Europe as a whole?” Lennon’s reply is as follows:
SDL threatens arson and vandalism against mosque
Scottish Defence League supporters have been foaming over a plan to convert a disused club in Inverness into a mosque.