Aberdeen councillors reject Scottish Defence League march plans

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Scottish Defence League 2Aberdeen City Council have rejected an application by the Scottish Defence League to stage a march in the city on Saturday, June 29.

The right-wing organisation had submitted an application to take part in Armed Forces Day, but the route they had chosen included passing a mosque on Aberdeen’s Crown Street. However, the local authority’s Licencing Committee unanimously kicked the idea into touch when they convened on Tuesday morning, on the grounds that the SDL had failed to engage with the council or the police.

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Man arrested after Gloucester mosque arson attack

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Masjid-E-Noor arsonA 37-year-old man has been arrested in connection with an arson attack on a Gloucester mosque.

Gloucestershire Police said lit petrol was poured around the door of the Masjid-E-Noor mosque on Ryecroft Street about 01:00 BST. A spokesman said a man left the scene at speed at about 01:00 BST in a dark-coloured car being driven by an accomplice. The suspect is currently in police custody and being questioned.

The door of the mosque was left burnt and blackened in the attack, which was captured on CCTV. The attack comes after an open day was held at the mosque to welcome in the community.

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Tower Hamlets: Labour accused over ‘inflammatory’ housing claims shared by EDL supporters

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Lutfur Rahman talks to mediaLabour has been accused of making “inflammatory” claims after supporters of far right group the English Defence League circulated allegations that mayor of Tower Hamlets Lutfur Rahman prioritised supporters when allocating funding for home improvements.

The accusation that Independent mayor Mr Rahman targeted areas represented by his supporters followed the release of figures highlighting discrepancies in where renovations under the Decent Homes Programme have been completed since elections in 2010. The information was circulated by EDL supporters on social networking site Twitter.

A spokesman from the mayor’s office described Labour’s accusations as “inflammatory”, while cabinet member for housing Cllr Rabina Khan added: “The irresponsible and dangerous claims made by Labour have found their audience and are now doing the rounds with the EDL to stoke up fear within the community that some residents and areas are more deserving than others.”

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Argenteuil: Muslim woman loses baby after veil attack

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A young pregnant Muslim woman, who was allegedly attacked in the street for wearing a veil has lost her baby, her lawyer announced on Monday.

According to reports in the French media, the woman, who was four months pregnant, was assaulted in the Paris suburb of Argenteuil on June 13th. On Monday, the 21-year-old’s lawyer Hosni Maati told AFP that the woman had since suffered a miscarriage. “Her husband called me this afternoon. She lost the baby,” the lawyer said, before adding that the family were devastated by the tragedy and would not be making any further comment.

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Planning inquiry to examine council’s rejection of West Ham mosque

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Newham Council’s rejection of a planning application for the UK’s biggest mosque is set to be the subject of a public inquiry this year.

Councillors voted unanimously to reject plans for a 9,000 capacity building for Muslim worshippers in December on the site – former industrial land at the end of Canning Road which is listed for strategic development. Officers argued that the mosque plans failed to provide a mixed-use development.

The Riverine Trust, who submitted the planning application, appealed and the decision is due to be examined in a public inquiry of the Planning Inspectorate over a number of weeks towards the end of 2013.

Last month, the High Court ordered the Trust to clear the site, also known as the Abbey Mills Mosque, where 3,000 Muslims currently worship. But instead the Trustees have now applied to a judge to appeal the injunction meaning no timetable to clear the site has been put in place.

They have also submitted proposals to the council for a new planning application for a mixed-use development.

Newham Recorder, 17 June 2013

US company advertises pork-coated bullets

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Jihawg Ammo

The right-wing US website BizPac Review reports on a new and particularly distasteful example of Islamophobia.

An Idaho company named Jihawg Ammo (company slogan “Peace through pork”) has begun producing bullets coated with “pork-infused paint”. It advertises this as “the only ammunition in the world that provides a peaceful and natural deterrent to radical Islam”.

BizPac Review explains: “The inclusion of pork in the paint makes the bullets haraam, or unclean. Under Islamic law, anyone who comes in contact with a haraam item is then unclean, and must engage in a cleansing ritual. No unclean person can be admitted into Paradise.”

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Two men due in court on suspicion of racist graffiti at mosque

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Two men are due to appear in court accused of spraying racist graffiti onto a wall of the Maidenhead Mosque. Lee Hunt, 26, of Lincoln Road, and Gary Nuth, 22, of Kingfisher Drive, both in Maidenhead, were charged on Friday

They have both been charged with two counts of racially or religiously aggravated criminal damage, one count of criminal damage and one count of theft. The charges relate to an incident at the mosque in Holmanleaze in the early hours of June 8, when graffiti was sprayed onto the side wall of the building.

They were both bailed to appear at Slough Magistrates’ Court on July 12.

Maidenhead Advertiser, 17 June 2013

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Far-right anti-Islamification protest in Burnley

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North West Frontline Firm Burnley demo

A group called the North West Frontline Firm are holding a demonstration in Burnley next Saturday to “highlight the Islamification of Great Britain and the ever growing problem of mass immigration”.

One of several far-right “unity” initiatives that emerged out of the fragmentation of the English Defence League, the organisation claims to have been “set up by affiliates of various Patriotic groups throughout the North West”. In a recent Facebook post they state piously: “We aren’t extremist nazis like the various left wing factions would have you believe. We are simply concerned British Patriots.”

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Racist thugs who beat up Muslim are banned from EDL activities, narrowly avoid jail

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James Whitbread and Salvatore AllegroTwo racist thugs who beat up an innocent man and told him “go back to your own country” have narrowly avoided jail.

Salvatore Allegro, 48, of Home Gardens, Dartford, and James Whitbread, 36, from Rochester, carried out the unprovoked attack at Bank Underground station on August 18 last year. The pair were both found guilty of a racially aggravated public order offence following a short trial, with Allegro also being found guilty of common assault.

This morning, District Judge Vanessa Lloyd handed the pair suspended prison sentences at Westminster Magistrates Court.

The victim, Ahmad Farhan, boarded an Underground train at Bond Street station with his girlfriend when he first heard a group of white males talking about “f***ing Islams.” As he left the train at Bank station at around 5pm, the group of men also left the train and were heard singing racist hate songs. Mr Farhan said he was “wary” of the group as he left the train and heard one of the men, later identified as Allegro, say “go back to your own country you f***ing Muslim c**t.”

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