Hijab headscarves were torn off two Muslim women during one of a spate of racist attacks in Edinburgh by children as young as eight, police said yesterday.
The women, in their early 20s, are said to have been “traumatised” by the incident which happened last week, in which two children hurled racial abuse at them before ripping off the hijabs. The culprits are believed to be aged eight and 14.
Every day across Britain, it seems, there’s a new and horrific revelation of sexual abuse: last week we had the guilty plea of veteran TV presenter Stuart Hall, who confessed to 14 cases of indecent assault against 13 girls, the youngest only nine years old.
Days earlier the possible scale of child abuse in north Wales children’s homes was revealed. We now know there were 140 allegations of historical abuse between 1963 and 1992. A total of 84 suspected offenders have been named, and it’s claimed the abuse took place across 18 children’s homes.
But after the shock has subsided and we have time to reflect on these revolting crimes, the main question in most reasonable people’s minds must surely be: what is it about white people that makes them do this?
Joseph Harker on the double standards over sexual abuse.
Police are investigating after anti-Muslim graffiti was found spray painted on a sidewalk in Brooklyn. The words were discovered in front of a home on Avenue Z in Sheepshead Bay around 6:30 p.m. Sunday. The graffiti has people in the area concerned.
A rally is being staged in Dumfries to protest at a planned anti-Muslim demonstration by a far right group. The Scottish Defence League’s visit on May 18 is set to be countered by a march through the town staged by Dumfries TUC.
Secretary John Dennis said: “The Scottish Defence League (SDL) have a Facebook page called ‘Casuals United’, which is monitored by Unite Against Fascism. They alerted us to the fact the SDL have got four different places where they’re having anti-Muslim demonstrations. One of them’s in Dumfries.”
Mr Dennis says that the SDL visit was prompted by a planning application made on behalf of Dumfries Islamic Society for a mosque on Annan Road to allow visiting imams to stay overnight. He believes that the SDL will assemble for a static protest.
Reports and comment from Islamophobia Watch 29 April-5 May 2013
The Rossmoor–Los Alamitos branch of the California Federation of Republican Women Southern Division (RLA RWF) is concerned about the spread of Sharia law in the USA.
“The United States has always been a welcoming nation to those who legally enter and pledge allegiance to our flag and laws,” the RLA RWF states in a recent announcement. “Yet, today there are many concerns about the Obama Administration introducing aspects of Sharia law into our legal system.”
Four arrests were made at a Far Right demonstration in Leeds.
A huge police operation involving over 100 officers swung into action on Saturday (May 4) as the English Defence league marched through Leeds’ Lingfield estate – at the invitation of residents angered after the go ahead was given to plans to turn a derelict pub into a Muslim-run community centre.
A counter demonstration by Unite Against Fascism, which attracted around 120 people, was kept apart from the EDL by dozens more officers.
Writing in the Chicago Monitor, Ahmed Rehab of the Council on American-Islamic Relations draws attentions to this “joke” greeting card spotted by CAIR-Chicago in a local store.
The card, produced by a company called NobleWorks Cards, features a photo of a Muslim doll wearing a hijab accompanied by the words “The talking doll. Pull string for message, if you dare!” and “She’ll love you to death! She’ll blow your brains out!” The inside of the card features the message “Hope your birthday is a BLOW OUT!”
A bill that would have banned Islamic, or Sharia Law, along with other foreign laws from being applied in state courts died in the legislature Friday.
Senate President Don Gaetz on Friday declared the bill (HB 351) “resolved” after its sponsor decided not to ask for the unanimous vote required to move the bill forward. It had failed a previous procedural vote on Thursday. The House approved the legislation on a 79-39 vote last month.