A political party has deemed its visit to a Skegness Halal abattoir and the town, this morning, as being a “success”. Around 40 members of the Lincolnshire branch of the BNP and the public attended the meet-up which took place at The Victoria Inn pub, Wainfleet Road, from 11am.
Sheila Musaji responds to a ludicrous account of harassment by Muslims from a clearly unbalanced French supporter that Pamela Geller has posted on her Atlas Shrugs blog.
Sixty English Defence League supporters have held a demonstration Solihull town centre.
Shoppers at the Touchwood Centre in Solihull looked on in horror this afternoon (Saturday) as the EDL far right extremists waved flags and shouted anti-Islamist chants as they passed by.
A man who was put on trial after staging an anti-religion protest by ripping out pages from the Koran in front of Muslims has had the case against him dropped.
A jury at Leicester Crown Court failed to reach a verdict in the case against Peter James Crawford last month. The Crown Prosecution Service reviewed the evidence and a decision was made not to continue with a fresh trial. The case was dropped against Mr Crawford, 52, when the prosecution offered no evidence against him at a hearing.
Speaking this week, Mr Crawford’s defence advocate during the trial, Steven Newcombe, said: “I think the prosecution made a sensible decision not to have a retrial in the light of the jury being deadlocked. There were other ways of dealing with this matter, rather than attempting to prosecute Mr Crawford in a crown court. He has learned a lesson and I’m sure he will conduct himself with a greater degree of sensitivity.”
A spokesman for the Crown Prosecution Service said: “When jury cannot decide on a verdict, the prosecution must decide whether to seek a retrial on the basis of the same evidence. A number of factors must be taken into account, including the likely penalty if the defendant is found guilty, the time delay in securing a date for the retrial, the views of the victim, judiciary and police and the likelihood of another jury reaching a decision.”
An Eastern Carolina congressman says a local community college should not accept a grant that would explain the Muslim culture.
Craven Community College in New Bern says it will accept the National Endowment for the Humanities’ grant. “Bridging Cultures Bookshelf: Muslim Journeys” would provide 25 books and a DVD to the college.
“It is appalling to me that a federal agency like NEH is wasting taxpayer money on programs like this,” said Jones. “It makes zero sense for the U.S. government to borrow money from China in order to promote the culture of Islamic civilizations,” said the Republican from the third district.
The Wall Street Journal has published a hostile “review” by Jonathan Schanzer of Nathan Lean’s The Islamophobia Industry: How the Right Manufactures Fear of Muslims.
Schanzer doesn’t just trash Lean’s book but also attacks the concept of Islamophobia itself, which he describes as “simply a pejorative neologism designed to warn people away from criticizing any aspect of Islam”. Those on the receiving end of the anti-Muslim hysteria whipped up by the Islamophobes so effectively exposed by Lean would no doubt take a different view.
For a response to Schanzer’s article, see “Bush era neo-con schmuck Jonathan Schanzer shills for nasty Islamophobia movement”, Loonwatch, 10 January 2013
Seeking to make the Muslim headscarf speak to American fashion, a Muslim woman is championing a contest to encourage designers to create an American style of hijab, to the fury of Islamophobes.
A mental health nurse has set up a new far right political party. Dr Andrew Emerson has joined other former BNP members to create Patria, which means homeland in Latin, which calls for Britain to withdraw from the EU, to repeal the Human Rights Act, to end all immigration and to repatriate non-British residents.
The group – which includes Ian Johnson from the New Forest who stood as a BNP candidate for Havant in the 2005 – will be fielding candidates in local and general elections. They left the far right BNP after becoming disillusioned with the way it was run.
Hope Not Hate provides some revealing photographs of Matthew Pile (aka Matty P), the fascist responsible for organising the English Defence League’s demonstration in Solihull this Saturday.
The Maryland chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MD) is calling on Marylanders to contact several public officials in that state to request that they withdraw from participation in the upcoming Maryland Conservative Action Network Conference in Annapolis because the leader of a designated anti-Muslim hate group will speak at the event.