This is the inflammatory post by English Defence League co-leader Kevin Carroll that appeared on his organisation’s Facebook page yesterday. Here are some examples of the responses it provoked among supporters of the “non-violent” EDL. They include calls for arson attacks on mosques and for Muslims to be stabbed, along with appeals to “burn them all” and “kill them all”.
An Electronic Intifada investigation uncovers evidence that Thor Halvorssen, the founder of the Oslo Freedom Forum, receives significant funding from the same financiers who support the Islamophobes who inspired anti-Muslim Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik. Despite being presented with this evidence, the Norwegian government and Amnesty International are embracing Halvorssen, a long-time far-right activist and the scion of a politically-connected family tied to Venezuela’s US-backed opposition.
East Midlands Anti-fascists report that an English Defence League splinter group called the East Anglian Patriots have announced they will be holding a protest in Lincoln next month against a plan to build a new mosque.
Appealing to their supporters to help “stop this muzzie infested building getting built”, the administrators of the “Stop the Lincoln Mosque” Facebook page state that although this will not be an official EDL demonstration they are “all edl on here pretty much”.
A right-wing organisation led by a former BNP councillor for Swanley has scrapped plans to protest outside a Crayford mosque this weekend.
The English National Resistance were set to rally against what it branded the “sexist and offensive” signs at North West Kent Muslim Association’s mosque in Crayford High Street on Saturday (May 18). Members are angry the building has separate entrances for men and women.
But the new group, spearheaded by Paul Golding, has now called it off – but vowed to continue the campaign to remove the signs through his other nationalist movement, Britain First.
A group set up to campaign against a prayer centre in Shrewsbury is just another BNP front. The group “Against the Shrewsbury Muslim prayer centre” is complaining that Shropshire Council has sold Column Lodge to the Shropshire Bangladesh Welfare Society in a £215,000 deal.
Two Muslim women were attacked by strangers in parks, with both incidents being reported within days of each other.
A woman wearing a hijab veil in Greatfields Park in Barking was repeatedly punched in the head by two white women who branded her a “Muslim terrorist”.
It was one of two racially-motivated incidents reported last week to anti-Muslim attack support service Tell Mama, which is run by the charity Faith Matters.
Over at Left Futures Jon Lansman reports on a joint initiative between Unite the Union and the man Andrew Gilligan tells us is promoting “the politics of racial separation” in Tower Hamlets.
See also East London Advertiser, 13 May 2013
And “Lutfur Rahman: Tower Hamlets is not in disarray”, Guardian, 15 May 2013
Al Kanz reports on a new case of mosque desecration in France.
The latest act of vandalism took place in Alsace, at Illzach, a commune of 15,000 inhabitants on the outskirts of Mulhouse.
On Saturday morning a swastika, an Odin’s cross and racist graffiti were found on the wall of the mosque, which is still under construction. The slogans read “100% pig” and “France for the French”.
Al Kanz points out that this is the fifteenth such attack on a French mosque this year and follows only a few days after a pig’s head was thrown at a mosque in Chenôve near Dijon.
Muslim students have lashed out at claims in a study that extremists are segregating and denigrating women, saying they are being “increasingly demonised”, while the NUS has condemned it as a “witch hunt”.
The study by Student Rights, which links extremism with gender segregation on campus calling it a “serious issue”, has been slammed by one anti-racism student officer.
Mohamed Harrath, a student union executive at the London School of Economics, told Huffington Post UK the pressure group was trying to “ramp up” the effects of Islamophobia on Muslim students.
Twelve months on the impact of the grooming scandal is still being felt by many businesses. Taxi drivers have complained of a rise in the amount of abuse they receive, while some takeaways have been boycotted or targeted by vandals.