Footballer Shaun Tuck admits encouraging bomb attacks on mosques

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Shaun Tuck (2)A footballer urged people to bomb mosques and joked about beheading Muslim children after soldier Lee Rigby’s murder.

Witton Albion’s Shaun Tuck admitted the Twitter rant but denied being racist, saying it was a “moment of madness”. Tuck, 26, of Norris Green in Liverpool, pleaded guilty to an offence under the Communications Act, city magistrates heard.

He wrote online: “All the mosques in England now should be bombed or gassed out!!!… Or stormed by 50 lads machetes, swords the lot. An make a statement. Am raging in me loft here yno… Got the balaclava out, dusted down an ready for the meet. I’d be going through there door mate an taking there kids head off an killing whoever was in site!!”

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Catalonia lifts veil on ‘burqa ban’ plans

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The Catalan Government has announced plans to control the wearing of burqas and other face-covering attire in public spaces “for reasons of public safety”.

The proposed rule will also control the public wearing of other garments including helmets and masks, Ramon Espadaler, Interior Minister for Catalonia, announced in the autonomous region’s parliament on Wednesday. A full debate will follow the introduction of the public safety motion designed to combat people concealing their faces in public places.

Espadaler argued that it had nothing to do with “religious issues”, according to Catalan daily La Vanguardia. “It is not a general prohibition. That would lead us nowhere and we would be infringing on fundamental rights,” he said. He added: “We want to be sensitive” and urged a “careful, subtle and clear debate” to find a “consensus”.

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Anti-Muslim attacks in London rose eightfold after Rigby murder

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ENGAGE reports that Metropolitan Police Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe has confirmed that hate crimes against Muslims in London rose from one to eight per day in the immediate aftermath Lee Rigby’s murder. Hogan-Howe stated:

Following the terrible murder of Lee Rigby in Woolwich we did see a rise in the number of reported hate crimes against Muslims from one a day to eight a day.

This lasted for around two weeks and has recently reduced to around two a day. There are two arson attacks which are always serious as people’s lives are put at risk. As a result we have had 24-hour police guarding of some high-risk sites over the last few weeks and extra patrolling. We are reviewing the situation every week across London and will take appropriate action to keep people safe.

Unite joins anti-fascist march in Ipswich on Sunday

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Unite activists in Ipswich, Suffolk will be joining a march for multiculturalism on Sunday (7 July) – a week after members of the far right English Defence League (EDL) tried to force their way into Unite’s offices in the town.

Unite, the country’s largest union, condemned last weekend’s attempt by EDL members to get into the union’s Grimwade Street’s offices and the racist chanting at Unite members attending a meeting in the building.

Unite regional officer Miles Hubbard said: “The actions of EDL members in trying to get into the Unite offices gives the lie to any notion that the EDL is a mainstream political organisation.  In attempting to break up a peaceful meeting through intimidation and racist chanting they have demonstrated all the characteristics of the fascist ideology.

“The EDL is opposed to integration and multiculturalism, and is trying to stir up division. By marching on Sunday we are showing that there is no place for the politics of hatred in Ipswich and throughout Suffolk.”

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Teenager accused of spraying EDL graffiti on mosque

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A teenager accused of spraying racially-aggravated graffiti on the wall of a community centre used as a mosque is due to go on trial in August.

The 17-year-old, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, pleaded not guilty to two charges of committing racially or religiously-aggravated criminal damage at Leicester Magistrates’ Court this morning.

The offences – including spraying the letters EDL and crossed lines, and damaging windows and charity clothing collection bins – are alleged to have been committed on May 13 and June 11 at Oadby Community Centre, in Sandhurst Street, Oadby. The building is used as a place of worship by the local Muslim community.

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Birmingham: Appeal for more action on hate crimes after mosque attacks

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Redditch Central Mosque graffiti

West Midlands Police has been urged to log Islamophobic hate crimes as a separate category following a series of attacks on mosques. The call comes as the anti-Muslim campaign group the English Defence League is gearing up for a demonstration in Birmingham City Centre on Saturday, July 20.

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Another Nazi in the EDL

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Aryan English threatens 'Muslim scum'

His name is Steve Crispin, and he has adopted “Aryan English” as his Facebook identity. EDL News has the details. You may remember Crispin. He was the thug who was was jailed last year for his part in an attack on two Muslims during an EDL anti-mosque protest in Dagenham in 2011, in the course of which he kicked one of the victims and fractured his jaw.

Man who threatened to ‘kill all Muslims’ in wake of Lee Rigby murder gets off with fine

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A man who threatened to kill all Muslims during a racist tirade in the wake of the murder of Lee Rigby has been slapped with a £120 fine. Peter Levers, 33, of Circular Road, Staveley, was caught by police shouting at a taxi driver, and said “Muslims, I’ll kill them all.”

Chesterfield Magistrates court heard how Levers had been out drinking for around 16 hours, before the incident on Cavendish Street at 4.25am on May 24. Prosecuting, Belinda Ariss told the court he had asked police officers to take him home because he wanted to get in a car with a white driver and was “extremely drunk” at the time of the offence. Levers pleaded guilty to racially aggravated harrassment at the hearing on June 24.

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Newport police probing Muslim grave daubing ‘confident’

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Newport cemetery graffiti(4)Police investigating racist graffiti on Muslim graves in Newport are pursuing a number of leads and the officer in charge of the case is positive the culprits will be caught.

Members of Newport’s Muslim community joined police officers and councillors at Christchurch Cemetery yesterday.

Vandals used white paint to write “Lee Rigby murder,” “white power” and drew swastikas on four gravestones at the weekend. Initials of the British National Party (BNP), the UK Independence Party (UKIP) and the National Front (NF) were also smeared, as well as racist slogans.

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Wilders to build further links with European far right

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Geert Wilders, leader of the anti-immigration PVV, is hoping to work together with Swedish and Italian nationalist parties as well as Belgium’s Vlaams Belang and the Front National in France, Nos television reports.

Wilders, who has made no secret of his contacts with the Belgian and French nationalists, told Nos he has now had contact with the Eurosceptic Sweden Democrats and will also meet officials from the Lega Nord in Italy.

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