Another blow for the anti-Warsi witch-hunters – she is cleared over parliamentary expenses allegations

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Conservative Party Annual Conference BeginsThe Conservative Party says its co-chairman Baroness Warsi has been cleared of allegations she wrongly claimed Parliamentary expenses.

Baroness Warsi’s claims were probed by the Lord Commissioner for Standards. It was alleged that in 2008 she claimed overnight expenses for staying in London while living rent-free.

Last month she was cleared of a breach of the ministerial code after being accompanied by a business associate on an official visit to Pakistan.

In a statement, Lady Warsi said she was “delighted” to draw a line under the matter.

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Huma Abedin isn’t the only victim of Bachmann’s witch hunt

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The Huffington Post examines the cases of Mohamed Elibiary, Mohamed Magid and Dalia Mogahed.

Elibiary, who serves as an advisor for the Department of Homeland Security, says of Michele Bachmann and her colleagues:

“They feel like there’s no consequences to what they’re doing, no negativity, and they just wrap themselves in the flag like they’re the only uber-patriots out there. There are real peoples’ lives that are affected. This is a witch hunt to just make sure that we ruin every Muslim who is serving in any capacity in the government, period.”

See also “Well paid Islamophobe Frank Gaffney and the Center for Security Policy’s crusade against American Muslims”, Straight Record, 25 July 2012

EDL demonstration in Chelmsford: protestors chanted ‘You burn our poppy, we burn your mosque’

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EDL in Chelmsford (2)

Three men from an anti-Islamic group were arrested on Saturday during a march against plans for a new mosque in Chelmsford.

More than 30 members of the English Defence League waved placards saying “no to radical Islam”, while others shouted racial slurs during a rally from the Plough Inn in Duke Street to the High Street.

The controversial right-wing group was marching against plans for a new mosque in Regina Way, Chelmsford, as part of the Waitrose supermarket development.

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Sutton: opponents organise petition against new mosque

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Worcester Park anti-mosque campaignPlans for a controversial new mosque in Worcester Park have been met with fierce opposition.

Businesses and residents have joined forces to sign a petition to ensure the plans do not go ahead. Petitions have been seen in various shops along Central Road which claim the increased traffic would bring the area to a stand still.

Sutton Council has received a submission for a place of worship at numbers 2-4 Green Lane. Although the council are yet to confirm plans are for a mosque, the drawings which have been submitted include plans for a male and a female prayer room.

The petitions cite traffic as the main issue, but scratch a little under the surface, and a different picture becomes clear. One businessman said: “It’s not just the traffic but I’m being diplomatic. This can not happen.”

Your Local Guardian, 25 July 2012

There is also, predictably, a Facebook page titled “Ban the Worcester Park, Green Lane Mosque”. Its wider objective is to “Ban the every growing building of Mosques in and around the surrounding area Epsom and Ewell”.

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The Muslim Brotherhood conspiracy comes to Edmond, Oklahoma

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ORG anti-mosque campaign

EDMOND, Okla. — There is a controversy in Edmond involving the expansion of a local mosque. The small mosque, which has been in Edmond for 20 years, sits across from the University of Central Oklahoma. Officials have requested permits to expand the building to five times the size it is now.

When neighbors were notified about the expansion plan, letters of complaint began coming in. In a hand-written note the writer asked planning commissioners to look at recent events in Murfreesboro, Tenn., and “what our grandchildren are going to face.” In one letter the sender called the mosque near UCO, “a headquarters for terrorist affiliate organizations.”

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Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn: Republican senator facing election jumps on anti-mosque bandwagon

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David Storobin

State Sen. David Storobin has joined the hopeless fight against a mosque being built in Sheepshead Bay – a battle that’s been repeatedly quashed in the courts and has left political insiders believing that the newly minted legislator is more concerned with winning votes than helping mosque opponents.

Storobin fired off a letter to Mayor Bloomberg last week, claiming that the house of worship is thumbing its nose at city laws and threatens its neighbors’ lives. “This may pose a danger to public safety,” Storobin (R–Brighton Beach) wrote as he bashed the city for allowing work on a house of worship continue.

Yet political insiders say Storobin is using the mosque fight to strengthen his image as a right-wing conservative – something that will help him in the race for a new Midwood district peopled with conservative Orthodox Jews. “He thinks being further to the right is more helpful to him in getting elected than being for diversity is,” said political analyst Hank Sheinkopf.

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Glen Jenvey joins the British Freedom party

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British Freedom Glen Jenvey

Glen Jenvey, the self-styled terrorism expert responsible for the Sun‘s fabricated “Terror Target Sugar” story about a supposed Muslim extremist hitlist (although he now denies this), recently posted a glowing account of the English Defence League and its membership (“I was amazed at the grass root support of EDL and the British Freedom Party which is a new political party which has been now merged with the EDL leadership … it was made up of every race as they have a open membership which is not reported in the UK media”).

And now it appears that Jenvey has taken his admiration one step further and joined the British Freedom party. They have crossposted an article by Jenvey on their website denouncing the sale of halal meat, with an introduction describing him as a British Freedom member.

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Phoenix tea party leader says all Muslims are ‘a threat to this country’, seeks recall of McCain, emails link to article from crazed hate site Bare Naked Islam

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Wes HarrisA prominent Phoenix tea party leader who believes Muslims cannot be trusted to be loyal to the United States and should not be working for the federal government is incensed with U.S. Sen. John McCain’s defense of a top State Department official and is eying a recall drive against Arizona’s senior senator.

Wes Harris, the founder and chairman of the Original North Phoenix Tea Party, said he plans to take out a recall petition against McCain. While Harris has many problems with McCain, a mass email he sent out focused solely on the senator’s recent defense of Huma Abedin, a top aide to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Harris accused Abedin of having ties to an Islamic extremist group, and he objected to the fact that a Muslim was working for the State Department in the first place.

Harris said he believes Muslims’ loyalty to the U.S. is questionable because their ultimate loyalty is to the Quran and Islam, which he described as “more a fascist type of organization.”

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Mosque bomb threat suspect turns self in

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Alan CorreaMURFREESBORO, Tenn. — A Texas man accused of making terrorist threats against a local mosque has turned himself in to U.S. Marshals. Twenty-four-year-old Javier Alan Correa arrived with his attorney to surrender to federal authorities on Monday.

Correa was indicted last month for allegedly calling in a bomb threat to the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro last September, just prior to the tenth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks on America. The curse filled message left on a machine at the center said “there’s going to be a bomb in the building.”

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