Hope Not Hate has the latest news on Andrew Eccles, the former British National Party activist who was allowed to stand as a UKIP council candidate last year, having been personally recruited by the Bury branch chair, despite UKIP’s official ban on ex-BNP members joining the party.
More than 1,200 extra police on the streets to guard ‘key locations’ as EDL thugs exploit tragedy
More than 1,200 additional police officers took to the streets last night amid heightened fears of further violence targeted at the Muslim community by far-Right groups.
Officers were guarding “key locations” in London, including religious venues and transport hubs, Metropolitan Police assistant commissioner Mark Rowley said.
Leave for officers has been cancelled following ugly scenes in Woolwich involving the English Defence League and a spate of attacks on mosques elsewhere in England on Wednesday night.
Police promise ring of steel for EDL march in Newcastle
Members of the English Defence League will march through Newcastle tomorrow, with police promising extra patrols to reassure communities.
Evening Chronicle, 24 May 2013
Anti-Islam graffiti sprayed on Bolton mosque
Police have launched an investigation after anti-Islamic graffiti was sprayed on a mosque and a vehicle in Bolton, Greater Manchester.
Police said they were called to reports of slogans reading “Islam = Evil” and “Terrorist inside”. The graffiti has been cleaned off the mosque.
Braintree mosque attack man charged
A 43-year-old man from Essex has been charged with two counts of possession of offensive weapons and affray over an attack on an Islamic centre. Geoffrey Ryan, from Brick Kiln Way, Braintree, is due to appear before Colchester Magistrates’ Court later.
He was arrested in possession of a knife outside the building in Silks Way, Braintree on Wednesday evening. A smoke device was thrown into the premises but no one was injured. He was remanded in police custody to appear before magistrates on Friday.
Bacon left at Welsh mosque as Muslim Council of Wales warns of inter-racial tensions in wake of Woolwich murder
The Muslim Council of Wales fears inter-racial tensions are escalating in the wake of the slaying of a British serviceman after bacon was left in the entrance to a Welsh mosque.
Secretary of the Council Saleem Kidwai said the food, offensive to muslims on religious grounds, was left at the Shah Jalal mosque, in Cathays, Cardiff, on Wednesday night following the attack in Woolwich.
Mr Kidwai also pointed to an attack on a mosque in Kent and 100 English Defence League supporters gathering at the scene of the Woolwich murder as evidence of rising hostility. He said: “They left pig meat at the door – bacon and all these things.”
Mr Kidwai said the killing by two men understood to be British-born Islamic converts was “horrific” and “barbaric” and had nothing to do with the Muslim faith.
Extra police still out in force in Kent for Friday prayers to prevent reprisal attacks on Muslim community
Extra police officers will be out in force today to prevent potential reprisal attacks at Kent mosques during Friday prayers after a soldier was murdered by suspected terrorists.
The heightened patrols come after Gillingham Mosque was vandalised and police promised a “zero tolerance” approach to anyone who targets the county’s Muslim community.
Demonising Muslims won’t help
Mehdi Hasan takes on the Islamophobic assumptions behind conventional responses to the murder in Woolwich.
Fox News responds to London attack with Islamophobia
Fox News figures scapegoated Islam and promoted Islamophobia following an attack in London reportedly perpetrated by radical extremists which has been denounced by Muslim organizations in Britain. Media Matters has the details.
Mosque vandalised in Maidenhead
A mosque has been vandalised just hours after the suspected terrorist attack in Woolwich. The outer panel of a double-glazed window in a fire exit at Maidenhead Mosque in Holmanleaze was damaged this morning.