Campaigners have sworn to flood the streets of Walthamstow with demonstrators if an English Defence League (EDL) march planned for October goes ahead.
Ireland: shop worker refused right to wear hijab brings case for unfair dismissal
A former sales assistant at Dunnes Stores has claimed she wanted to work her rostered hours but could not do so as she was not permitted to wear a hijab at work.
Loreta Tavoraite (35) of Parknamore, Ballincollig, Co Cork, has brought a case for unfair dismissal against Dunnes Stores (head office) at South Great Georges Street, Dublin. Ms Tavoraite, who is originally from Lithuania, began working at Dunnes Stores, Ballincollig, Co Cork on July 26th, 2007.
More racist graffiti on French mosques
The Collectif contre l’Islamophobie en France reports that during the night of September 7-8 racist and Islamophobic graffiti were sprayed on two places of worship at Epône in north-central France. The slogans included “France for the French”, “White France” and “Islam = shit”.
Third graffiti attack on Muslim prayer hall in south-west France
Sud Ouest reports that a building at Le Barp in Val de l’Eyre in south-west France which is used by the local Moroccan community as a prayer hall has suffered the third graffiti attack since July.
Swastikas and other Nazi symbols were accompanied by racist and xenophobic slogans such as “dirty rats out” and “France belongs to us”.
The words “maire = collabo” were also found – a reference to the mayor of Le Barp, Christiane Dornon, who organised a demonstration in support of the Moroccan community following the previous two attacks.
BNP supporter who sent hundreds of racist letters denies she’s a racist
A Hampshire gran has denied being a racist – despite sending hundreds of letters containing racial slurs. Pensioner Margaret Walker sent the handwritten mail to parish councils, MPs, businesses, pubs and clubs nationwide.
The targets of her anonymous campaign ranged from politicians – including Prime Minister David Cameron, who she claimed was “flooding the country with ethnic people” – to the BBC, which she claimed was a “Marxist organisation”. Walker, 73, of Walnut Drive, Fareham also referred to Scottish people as “scum”, called people of Pakistani origin “scroungers” and used a variety of racist terms.
CAIR releases profile of Islamophobe Pamela Geller
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today released the second in a series of Islamophobe profiles documenting the individuals and organizations involved in spreading anti-Muslim bias in the United States.
This profile examines Pamela Geller, the “caustic mouthpiece” of the Islamophobia movement. She was cited today in an exclusive report by Reuters news agency exposing the American anti-Islam groups that support the extremist anti-Muslim views of Dutch politician Geert Wilders. Geller is also the person behind anti-Islam public advertisements going up in cities nationwide.
U.S. groups helped fund Dutch anti-Islam politician Wilders
Anti-Islam groups in America have provided financial support to Dutch politician Geert Wilders, an anti-immigration campaigner who is seeking re-election to the Dutch parliament this week.
While this is not illegal in the Netherlands, it sheds light on the international connections of Wilders, whose Freedom Party is the least transparent Dutch parliamentary group and a rallying point for Europe’s far right.
Wilders’ party is self-funded, unlike other Dutch parties that are subsidized by the government. It does not, therefore, have to meet the same disclosure requirements.
10 myths about Muslims in the West
Doug Saunders, author of the recently published book The Myth of the Muslim Tide: Do Immigrants Threaten the West?, debunks 10 common myths about Muslims in the West.
Huffington Post, 10 September 2012
Not that this will prevent the likes of Bruce Bawer and FrontPage Magazine continuing to publish ridiculous articles about the impending Muslim demographic conquest of Europe.
£200,000 bill for policing protests over Scout hut in Thurnby Lodge, Leicester
Police have spent £200,000 supervising protests against plans to turn a disused Scout hut into a community centre. The cost of the operation in Thurnby Lodge, Leicester, is rising daily as discussions continue to resolve the building’s future.
Officers from city stations and as far afield as Hinckley and Coalville have had to be redeployed from their normal duties to oversee regular protests – occasionally lasting late into the night – against a plan by the Muslim group As-Salaam Trust to convert the Nursery Road building into a community centre.
The protests, which began early last month, have taken place outside the nearby community centre in Thurncourt Road, where members of As-Salaam have been meeting for the past two-and-a-half years.
Fascist graffiti on French mosque
The Collectif contre L’Islamophobie en France has reported that a swastika and Celtic cross were sprayed on the entrance to a mosque at Agen, in southwestern France, last week.
CcIF notes that gunshots were fired at the same mosque in 2005 and that last year a mosque in nearby Villeneuve-sur-Lot was the target of an arson attack. In 2010 a mosque at Marmande, also in southwestern France, was sprayed with fascist graffiti.
See also La Dépêche and Europe 1.