Muslim community leader’s car vandalised and racist note left claiming to come from EDL/BNP

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Muhammed Abu Sayed AnsareyA spate of racist vandalism has hit Brentford in recent weeks sparking local condemnation. The crimes started when a shocked father found his number plate defaced and a racist note on his car claiming to come from the English Defence League.

Muhammed Abu Sayed Ansarey went to his Honda Civic in the public car park in Coates Walk, Brentford, on September 28 to find a note under his windscreen wiper telling him to “park in your own car park at the top or else”, accompanied by racist swearing and signed off supposedly from the English Defence League (EDL) and British National Party (BNP). His car number plate also had permanent marker pen on it joining up letters and numbers to form different ones.

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Ontario: Muslim students subject to hate crime

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Six Queen’s students are the victims of a hate crime that took place on Sunday, according to Kingston police.

The male students, who self-identify as Muslim, were walking home from Empire Theatres near Division St. and Highway 401 at approximately 1:30 a.m. when they were assaulted by four Caucasian males. The assault itself happened closer to the downtown core, at Fraser and Patrick Streets.

Approximated to be between 18-25 years old, the group approached the students on bicycles, yelling hate-based profanities and racial slurs while wielding a baseball bat.

One of the victims of the attack said they were approached by the males, who were drunk and offering to sell them drugs. “As they turned onto Fraser St. these four guys started chasing [us] who are all Muslim and they started screaming out … foul languages and racial hate speeches,” the student said, adding they originally thought the attackers wielded a machete.

“We were terrified because we thought it was really a machete and the guy was going to literally slit open and kill everyone,” he said. “They caught one guy and they hit him on the biceps and the thigh area, but it turned out to be a baseball bat, not a machete.”

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Nazi-obsessed teen had ‘shopping list of ingredients for a bomb’

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A Nazi-obsessed teenager drew up a shopping list of bomb ingredients and wrote out a detailed plan for his Columbine-style school massacre, the Old Bailey heard today (Thurs).

The 16-year-old college student planned to shoot dead teachers and unarmed police before taking hostages in the deadly attack, it is said. He allegedly wrote a plan to kill students with explosives and chain the exits shut, ending his note with the words “good luck” and a smiley face.

The teenager, now 17 who cannot be named because of his age, is accused of plotting terrorist attacks on his former school in Loughborough, Leicestershire, as well as his college, the council offices, Loughborough university, and even the local Reel cinema.

He had been stockpiling knives, air guns, petrol and pipe bombs, and explosives in his bedroom in preparation for the attack prior to his arrest in February, the court heard.

Prosecutor Gareth Patterson today showed jurors the teen’s handwritten notes on “Operation New Columbine” from a Che Guevara book daubed with EDL and Nazi slogans.

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EDL supporters in court over South Shields protest

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Hollie Smallwood EDL

A woman is to stand trial over claims that she tried to headbutt a police officer after a protest by far-right groups in South Tyneside.

About 350 members of the English Defence League (EDL) and the North East Infidels (NEI) took part in a march through South Shields on August 31. The two groups – who claimed they were there to “protest against radical Islam’s encroachment into the lives of non-Muslims” – were met at Pier Parade by about 100 counter-protesters from South Tyneside Unites Against Fascism.

A number of people were arrested before, during and after the protest on suspicion of assault, breaching the peace, being drunk and disorderly, affray and disorderly conduct.

Hollie Smallwood [pictured] appeared before magistrates charged with resisting arrest and being drunk and disorderly. Kevin Smallcombe, defending Smallwood, of Manor Grange, Lanchester, County Durham, said she denies the allegations and pleaded not guilty to both charges.

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Mail backs French journalist accused of slandering CCIF

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Poster for the “We are the nation” campaign launched by the Collectif contre l’Islamophobie en France in 2012

A French journalist is facing a criminal trial under the country’s strict press laws for remarks made during a radio debate about the influence of Islam.

Ivan Rioufol, 61, believes the way he is being treated is an example of how writers are criminalised when the state is able to control the media. He was summoned to court under strict press laws which date back to the 19th Century following a complaint from a pressure group called the Collective Against Islamophobia in France (CCIF).

“In seeking to undermine liberty of expression, a sacred principle of our civilisation, the Collective against Islamophobia in France (CCIF) takes the risk of appearing like a menace to democracy,” said Mr Rioufol. “This is essentially what I hope to be able to explain in court, because I will have to appear in a few months before the 17th Criminal Court in Paris.”

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‘Price tag’ attack against mosque in Palestinian village

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Burqa mosque graffitiExtreme right wing activists vandalized three cars and the exterior wall of a mosque in the Palestinian West Bank village of Burka outside of Ramallah early Thursday morning.

The IDF is working on the assumption that the vandals executed a “price tag” attack of retribution for its evacuation of the Ge’olate Zion outpost on Wednesday morning as well as the Palestinian murder of IDF soldier Tomer Hazan last month. “Ge’olat Zion loves Tomer Hazan” was written on the mosque’s exterior wall.

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Calgary mayoral candidate blasts rival’s Muslim faith

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Larry HeatherCalgarians will be tempting God’s wrath if they re-elect Naheed Nenshi to the mayor’s chair in the coming election, a mayoral candidates forum heard on Monday.

The comments were made by mayoral candidate Larry Heather, who describes himself as the Christian option on the ballot.

According to the Calgary Sun, Heather told the forum, with eight candidates present, how wrong it was for Calgarians to elect someone who took the oath of office on the Qur’an rather than the Bible, as Nenshi did in 2010.

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Teenager accused of plotting Columbine-style massacre ‘glorified’ EDL leader Stephen Lennon and ‘wanted Hitler in power’

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A teenage neo-Nazi accused of plotting a “new Columbine” school massacre idolised EDL founder Tommy Robinson and wanted Hitler in power, the Old Bailey heard today (Weds).

The 16-year-old college student dreamed of the British National Party ruling the UK and told school pals he wished he was German, jurors were told. He stockpiled petrol and pipe bombs and weaponry in his bedroom where he had hung a Nazi Swastika flag over his bed and kept a copy of Mein Kampf in among books on bomb making.

The teenager is standing trial accused of plotting a massacre at his former school in Loughborough, Leicestershire, even drawing up a hit-list of staff and students he wanted to shoot.

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Church cancels plan to host Worcester Park Islamic community centre consultation due to ‘anxiety’

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St Mary's ChurchA church will no longer hold a planned meeting for an Islamic community centre on their premises after it caused a “fair degree of anxiety”.

Reverend Andy Cain of St Mary’s Church in Cuddington said earlier this year he wanted to be “accessible to all faiths and none”. The church was due to hold meetings for a public consultation on plans to turn the abandoned Worcester Park Tavern into an Islamic community centre. However the meetings will now be held in the former pub itself.

Rev Andy Cain said: “St Mary’s Church is keen to support the local community. However, it’s clear from the people that have contacted me that this consultation has caused a fair degree of anxiety and as our primary concern is serving the local community we’ve decided not to host the meeting. If this is something that can have a negative impact on the community it’s not worth us getting involved.”

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