Loyalist extremist thinks only Muslims should be charged with encouraging crime

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Willie Frazer as Abu HamzaProtestant Coalition co-founder Willie Frazer appeared at court in Belfast yesterday dressed up as Abu Hamza. You might think that he was trying to draw a parallel between himself and another extremist who has incited hatred on the basis of a warped interpretation of his religious beliefs.

But no. Frazer has been charged under the Serious Crime Act 2007 with encouraging the commission of criminal offences in a speech he made in January during the Belfast flag protests, and he was protesting against a Loyalist militant being prosecuted on the basis a piece of legislation that he claims was meant to be used only against Muslims.

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Local paper condemns ‘shameful debate’ over Virginia Beach mosque

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The Virginian-Pilot has a forthright editorial condemning the hatred displayed last week when Virginia Beach City Council approved an application to build mosque.

It concludes: “Rather than allowing vile rumors and veiled threats to stand as the last word on this subject, Virginia Beach’s leaders and citizens should condemn such behavior and make clear that their community is better than that.”

Troubling note left at Murrieta Islamic center

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Islamic Center of Temecula Valley noteA troubling note was found taped on the front door of the Islamic Center of Temecula Valley in Murrieta. It was discovered on Sunday during evening prayer.

The note makes mention of the recent mall attack in Kenya and the suicide bombing at a church in Pakistan. The note did not contain any specific threats, but police are investigating.

The Islamic Center is offering a reward for information on who may have left the note.

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Man who attacked hijab-wearing woman in Times Square not charged with assault

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Rachel Gunnoe, a stay-at-home mom from New Jersey, was in a Times Square on Saturday, taking part in a demonstration against the military coup in Egypt, when she was accosted by a man who grabbed her protest sign, threw it in her face, and called her a “fucking terrorist.”

Her assailant, identified by the NYPD as Atef Sabry Abu El Enin, 33, of Washington D.C., was quickly restrained by officers but, the Voice has learned, he was not charged with assault.

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‘Devout Muslim’ who dealt heroin subjected his wife to a year of ‘hell’ and terrorised her into wearing a veil after she said she wanted to go to college

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That’s the headline to a report in the Daily Mail. The subject of the article is an unpleasant individual from Burnley named Jubel Miah, who was sent to a young offenders’ institution in 2010 for possessing heroin with intent to supply and has just been jailed after being convicted of assaulting his wife.

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Man accused of plot to blow up mosques and Islamic centres

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A man accused of making improvised explosives and plotting to blow up mosques and Islamic centres will stand trial next year.

Ian Forman, 41, of Shavington Avenue in Prenton, Birkenhead has been charged with engaging in the conduct in the preparation of terrorist acts on or before 6 June. He was remanded in custody at the Old Bailey until a hearing on 14 January when he will be asked to enter a plea. His trial has been set for 3 March. The location of the trial has not been confirmed.

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EDL supporter convicted of racially aggravated threatening behaviour

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A woman arrested for breaching bail conditions shouted racist abuse at the police officer taking her back to the police station. Blackburn magistrates heard the officer, who had 10 years’ service, had never experienced such bad racist abuse which lasted the whole of the eight-minute journey to Greenbank police station. And as they drove into the police station, Jasmine Astin was shouting “EDL”.

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World leaders must grasp Islamic heart of al-Shabaab’s terrorism

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Barnabas Fund logoWell, that’s what Patrick Sookhdeo of the right-wing evangelical Christian Barnabas Fund says.

Condemning David Cameron’s statement that the Somali terrorist group al-Shabaab “don’t represent Islam or Muslims in Britain or anywhere else in the world”, in an editorial on the Barnabas Fund website, Sookhdeo objects that this was as bad as Cameron’s claim after the murder of Lee Rigby that “there is nothing in Islam that justified this dreadful act”.

“While world leaders continue to fail to understand, or perhaps accept, the ideological basis within Islam for acts of violence,” Sookhdeo asserts, “they will never get to grips with the likes of al-Shabaab. To say that ‘they don’t represent Islam or Muslims in Britain or anywhere else in the world’ is flagrantly untrue.”

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EDL leaders’ Scandinavian tour cancelled

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We have previously covered the difficulties the “counterjihad” publication Dispatch International has faced in booking meetings in Malmö and Copenhagen for English Defence League leaders Stephen Lennon and Kevin Carroll.

Earlier this week DI regretfully announced that the EDL speaking tour has now been called off: “Rarely has an arrangement met with so many problems. First we couldn’t rent a hall and now we have to cancel the meeting altogether.”

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Guramit Singh on the run, sentenced to six-and-a-half years in prison in absentia

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Guramit Singh EDL

Three criminals tied up a shop assistant and threatened to slash his throat in a botched robbery in Notts.

Andrew Wheelhouse, 31, David Mura, 26, and Guramit Singh Kalirai, 31, went into gardening shop Simply Hydro, in Wigwam Lane, Hucknall, at about 12.30pm on Thursday, May 2, with the intention of raiding it. They attacked a shop assistant, pinned him to the ground and threatened to slash his throat if he did not give them money.

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