THE CLUMSY ACTIONS & STATEMENTS
23rd December 2013 Sussex lecturer Dr Rumy Hasan in OpenDemocracy: “…if it were the case that Europe was becoming a hot-bed of ant-Muslim racism/Islamophobia, why are so many Muslims from around the world clamouring (sic) to get in?”. Surely the use of the word ‘clamouring’ feeds into negative stereotypes of Muslims?
22nd December 2013 The Mirror’s headline: “Muslim Marks & Spencer staff told they can refuse to sell alcohol and pork to customers”, with the additional line, “Shopper trying to buy a bottle of champagne from Muslim M&S shop assistant told they’d have to use a different till because of her religion.” This headline uncorked a frenzy of Islamophobic statements – if only M & S could have come clean at the time and stated that their Jewish employees do not have to serve pork products at tills to its customers! http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/muslim-marks-spencer-staff-told-2952827
20th November 2013 The Daily Mail’s headline: ‘Britain’s first white honour killing: Teenager brutally murdered by her Muslim lover after exposing their relationship to his family’. This was a sensationalist and emotive wording, kindling so many fears: the ravishing of a ‘white’ woman by someone from an alien culture – Desdemona and Othello all over again! Why did the Daily Mail feel it necessary to refer to the racial category and religious faith of the parties involved? Why link ‘honour killings’ with Muslims? Daily Mail, 20 November 2013
29th September 2013 Headline in Sunday Times (29 Sept): “Girls forced to wear hijab” outside school hours. This is a reference to the Tauheedul Islam Girls’ High School in Blackburn. According to school authorities the claim is “ridiculous and inaccurate”. Mufti Hamid Patel, school principal, has further responded: “This story is wrong. It is totally incorrect to say that pupils are ‘forced’ to wear hijab outside of school. We are extremely sorry that despite repeated attempts by us to make sure the Sunday Times got their facts right, this newspaper chose to willfully misrepresent our school. We will carry on with the serious business of continuing to deliver the highest standards of education and developing our learners as outstanding citizens. Tauheedul is one of the highest achieving schools in the country.”
17th September 2013
The Sun’s sensationalist front page:
BAN veils in schools, courts and hospitals. BAN them in airports, banks and secure areas. LET employer decide if OK in the workplace. BUT freedom to wear them in streets & parks.”
10th September 2013 Muslim students have been banned from wearing religious veils into a college because of fears regarding security.Teenagers at Birmingham Metropolitan College have been told to remove any items of clothing covering their faces so they are ‘easily identifiable at all times’.
7th June 2013 Alex Andreou in The Guardian, 7th June 2013, describes an incident on a London bus: She tried the standard repertoire from cajole to threaten, but the little boy wouldn’t compromise. Whatever bag of extruded snack had been put away in her bag had become the single most important thing in the entire world. Finally, she pointed at me, leaned over and said: “Stop it, or I’ll call the terrorist.” I don’t know if she noticed the tiny, silent exhalation of gasp that escaped my lips. She looked at me, shrugged and winked conspiratorially, as if to say, “I know you’re not, really, but needs must.” Several people looked over at me, this olive-skinned man with a beard and a satchel; some shocked, others suspicious….
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/03/day-i-became-a-terrorist
23rd May 2013 The BBC’s political editor, Nick Robinson, has apologised after he quoted a source who apparently described the Woolwich attackers as being “of Muslim appearance”.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/may/23/woolwich-attack-bbc-nick-robinson-muslim
16th May 2013 The Daily Telegraph banner headline was ‘Imams promote grooming rings’, Muslim leader claims’. It is nothing short of mischevious for the DT to desribe Taj Hargey as a ‘Muslim leader’ – a known eccentric who has a record for bizarre statements, including his support of a niqab ban and opposition to the Camberley mosque – so will there soon be a headline ‘ Muslim leader opposes mosques’?!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10061217/Imams-promote-grooming-rings-Muslim-leader-claims.html
27th Feb 2013 BBC reportage: City University in London has been accused of discrimination by a group of Muslim students after it started locking a room used for Friday prayers. A group of students have formed Muslim Voices on Campus, calling on the university to reverse its decision. The group said it was being “unjustly targeted”.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-21542041
29th Jan 2013 Jane Kelly in the Daily Telegraph:”The streets around Acton, which has been my home since 1996, have taken on a new identity. Most of the shops are now owned by Muslims and even the fish and chip shop and Indian takeaway are Halal. It seems that almost overnight it’s changed from Acton Vale into Acton Veil….”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/9831912/I-feel-like-a-stranger-where-I-live.html
8th Jan 2013 Guardian headline: “Mother jailed for life for beating son to death for not learning Qur’an”; the headline need not have made it an issue of religion because the unfortunate woman had a history of mental illness.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jan/07/mother-jailed-life-son-quran?INTCMP=SRCH
THE MOCKING, ALARMIST TALK
19th November 2013 Lord Pearson’s diatribe: “But there is a problem within Islam—from the adherents of an ideology that is a strain within Islam. And we have to put it on the table and be honest about it. Of course there are Christian extremists and Jewish, Buddhist and Hindu ones. But I am afraid this strain is not the province of a few extremists. It has at its heart a view about religion and about the interaction between religion and politics that is not compatible with pluralistic, liberal, open-minded societies….” Hansard, 19 November 2013
8th November 2013 Michael O’Leary has called for the burka to be banned in Britain, warning that the country is “leaning over far too much” for minority religions like Islam…”If you want to come and live in Western society, I don’t think you should be allowed to walk around with some inalienable right to cover yourself up with only your eyes looking out.” http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/11/08/michael-oleary-_n_4238245.html
7th November 2013 Police will be maintaining presence in a former pit village when opposing demonstrations are staged over plans for Muslim education centre at the weekend….A Durham Police spokesman said today (Thursday, November 7): “We are aware of a planned EDL protest and counter-protest by TWAFA (Tyne & Wear Anti-Fascist Association) on Saturday in Shotton Colliery.
4th November 2013 Ken Clarke, a minister without portfolio who used to work as a criminal barrister, likened traditional female Islamic dress to being “in a kind of bag”, and said he found it “a most peculiar costume for people to adopt in the 21st century…Face-coverings were therefore an obstacle to justice, he said.
16th August 2013 A MARCH through Portsmouth has been prompted by the proposed opening of a Muslim school. The English Defence League (EDL) will be marching from Fratton to the Madani Academy, in Buckland, to show their disapproval of such a school being built in Portsmouth.
http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/local/edl-planning-march-against-islamic-school-1-5388641
1st August 2013 Ukip leader Nigel Farage today denied he was jumping on a political bandwagon by supporting a primary school dinner lady sacked for accidentally serving pork to a Muslim pupil…”The reason that Alison’s been sacked is that we’re so terrified in this country of causing offence to anybody, particularly the Muslim religion.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/08/01/nigel-farage-muslim-dinner-lady_n_3686933.html
30th July 2013 Daily Mail report: “A former chapel featured in one of LS Lowry’s renowned street scenes is to reopen as a mosque. The plan to use the Mount Zion Methodist Church in *censored*heroe, Lancashire, as a Muslim place of worship initially sparked fierce [sic] opposition….It had by then been closed for worship for 14 years, finding roles as a munitions store, metal box works and garment-making factory…”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2380851/Mount-Zion-Chapel-appears-Lowry-painting-mosque.html
30th March 2013 The Daily Mirror reports on the police investigation into Northern Premier League player, Shaun Tuck, 26, after the footballer allegedly posted a series of inflammatory tweets following the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/shaun-tuck-merseyside-police-probe-1916890
26th April 2013 [Lancashire] Councillors say they are appalled after receiving leaflets from a BNP activist asking them to support a campaign blaming Muslims for the heroin trade.
http://www.lep.co.uk/news/local/anti-muslim-leaflets-sent-to-lancashire-councillors-1-5613762
9th Feb 2013 A mosque will not open in Chipping Norton after its landlord received a threat that it would be burnt to the ground. The town’s Muslim community had been celebrating after they won permission to open the permanent home on Monday. But their 79-year-old landlord Georg Wissinter has received a threatening phone call and pulled out of the deal. http://www.witneygazette.co.uk/news/10217776._/
4th Jan 2013 Michael Gove, the education secretary, was one of the key voices calling for a ban on support for non-violent extremism when it published its Prevent strategy to fight radicalisation last year. But behind closed doors there are concerns about 118 “socially conservative” independent faith schools – the vast majority of them Muslim – where pupils may be encouraged to cut themselves off from mainstream society.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/9750428/Extremism-unchecked-in-schools-secret-briefing-reveals.html
THE ABUSE, PHYSICAL DAMAGE & VIOLENCE
An Islamophobe ran into a petrol station in Lancashire and threw bacon at the Muslim attendant. The man wrapped his face in a green scarf before ambushing the shocked worker, who was alone at the Pemberton Service Station in Ormskirk Road, Wigan. Police are treating the attack at 4.30am on November 25 as racist and said it was “utterly abhorrent”. The attendant was alone at the time.http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/newspaper/islamophobia/bacon-thrown-muslim-worker/
21st October 2013 Pavlo Lapshyn case: A Ukrainian student has pleaded guilty to trying to incite a race war on Britain’s streets by launching a terrorist campaign in which he stabbed a Muslim grandfather to death and exploded bombs near mosques in an attempt to murder and maim worshipers.
5th October 2013 From the Daily Telegraph: “Jose De Avila told Hassa Mohamed, “You’re Muslim scum – you’re killing our soldiers. You don’t deserve to be here.”. The incident happened in Woolwich, South East London, three days after Drummer Lee Rigby was killed.” Also in the day’s paper “A woman has been convicted of a racially aggravated assault after she attacked a Muslim woman who was wearing a burqa. The incident happened in Woolwich, South East London, in June, a few weeks after the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby. Tracy Davies, 46, struck the 55-year old Somali woan who was shopping with her daughter in the town centre.”
27th August 2013 Terror police are investigating a DVD featuring Nazi propaganda and hardcore pornography which was sent to mosques and Muslim centres in London and around the UK….Also on the hour-long film named ‘The Finale’ are graphic depictions of sex acts and footage portraying Muslims as bloodthirsty. Adolf Hitler features at the end of the video.
Copies of the DVD were posted to the Muslim Council of Britain,
as well as Islamic centres in Walthamstow and Acton in London. They were
addressed to “His Immaculate Holiness, the Divine Prophet”, a respectful
greeting which masked the actual content.
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/501840/20130827/nazi-hardcore-porn-dvd-islamophobia-hate-crime.htm
26th August 2013 The attackers sprayed insulation foam underneath the shuttered doors and windows of an Islamic centre in Harlow, Essex, then tried to set it alight, according to police and mosque leaders. The attack caused only minor damage and the centre was opened for prayers hours later.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/harlow-mosque-damaged-in-attempted-arson-attack-8784888.html
1st August 2013 Chesterfield magistrates’ court heard how Peter Levers, 33, of Circular Road, Staveley, was caught shouting, “Muslims, I’ll kill them all”, and in a separate case involving Mark Carr, 41, of Holme Road, Chesterfield, two Muslim women were subjected to racist abuse and swear-words during an incident where the comment ‘go back to your own country’ was heard.
http://www.derbyshiretimes.co.uk/news/crime/chesterfield-racist-abuse-prevalent-after-woolwich-killing-1-5907646
1st August 2013 A Muslim woman was attacked in the early hours of Monday morning in Mayfair, London.
In the early hours of Monday morning, as a 55-year-old woman returned home after Suhur (closing fast) at a friends, she was brutally attacked in London’s exclusive Mayfair area in the UK. A man grabbed her from behind and repeatedly punched her in the back of the head.
http://ihrc.org.uk/news/articles/10631-horrific-attack-on-55-year-old-muslim-woman
21st July 2013 One of two Ukrainian men being held over bomb attacks near three mosques has been further arrested on suspicion of murdering a 75-year-old man. West Midlands Police said the arrest was in connection with the killing of Mohammed Saleem on 29 April [2013]
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-23392374
19th July 2013 Counter terrorism police searching Wolverhampton Central Mosque have found traces of an explosion and debris. Army bomb disposal experts made the find on Thursday night as they searched land on Waterloo Road.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-23372217
12th July 2013 Police said they are investigating a “terrorist incident” after a suspected nail bomb exploded near a mosque in the West Midlands. Several streets were sealed off by police after residents reported hearing a loud bang. West Midlands police said officers were alerted to the incident in Tipton at 1.06pm on Friday and were investigating reports that nails and other debris had been found.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk-news/2013/jul/12/police-nail-bomb-mosque-terrorist-tipton
11th July 2013 WITNESSES are being sought after a Scottish mosque was vandalised with offensive graffiti at the start of Ramadan. Police are appealing for information after “Muslims will perish by JC” was daubed at the Fife Islamic Centre in Kirkcaldy.
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/vandals-target-scottish-mosque.21574160
9th July 2013 A footballer urged people to bomb mosques and joked about beheading Muslim children after soldier Lee Rigby’s murder….Shaun Tuck, who plays for Witton Albion, tweeted: “All the mosques in England should be gassed or bombed, or stormed by 50 lads with machetes, swords the lot. And make a statement.” Tuck added, in a comment about Muslim children, that he would “be taking their kids’ heads off”.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/footballer-shaun-tuck-admits-encouraging-2023596
1st July 2013 MUSLIM graves at a Newport cemetery have been desecrated with racist graffiti. The vandals used white paint to write “Lee Rigby murder”, “white power” and drew swastikas on four gravestones at Christchurch Cemetery.
They also wrote the initials of the British National Party (BNP), the UK Independence Party (UKIP) and the National Front (NF).
http://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/10517284.Muslim_graves_desecrated_by_racist_vandals/?ref=mmsp
1st July 2013 A FAMILY has condemned the suspected racists who left pig heads in their garden in Bradford. Members of the Ditta family were sickened to discover the pig heads on their front and back doorstop at their home in the Bolton area of the city. They later found another two in a bag, placed in bushes.
The family, who are Muslims, have been living in the city for decades but have never been the target of racism in all those years.
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/main-topics/general-news/police-seek-racists-who-left-pig-heads-in-bradford-muslim-family-garden-1-5811710#.UdDYpH_2M5E.twitter
30th June 2013 Two controlled explosions were carried out after a suspect package feared to be a bomb was left at a Liverpool mosque. Police were called to Al Rahma mosque in Mulgrave Street, Toxteth at around 9pm on Sunday night.
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/controlled-explosions-after-suspect-package-4795355
27th June 2013 Police are hunting racist thugs who broke into a mosque early this morning and scrawled Nazi swastikas on the walls and windows. The vile graffiti was spotted at Redditch Central Mosque in Worcestershire by officers who were investigating reports of a break-in at the place of worship at 4.30 am.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2348817/Swastika-racist-graffiti-saying-EDL-KKK-NF-daubed-windows-walls-mosque-built.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
23rd June 2013 The suspicious item found near a mosque was a small home-made explosive device, police have confirmed. Almost 40 homes close to the place of worship on Rutter Street in Walsall, West Midlands, were evacuated after bomb disposal experts were called to the scene.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2346755/Suspicious-package-outside-mosque-small-home-explosive-device-Police-probe-hate-crime-150-people-evacuated.html
18th June 2013 A mosque has been attacked by an arsonist, police said.
A man set light to the door of the building in Gloucester in the
early hours of today.The fire service was called to the scene in Ryecroft
Street at around 12.50am after reports of a small fire at the mosque.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/man-sought-over-gloucester-mosque-arson-attack-8663147.html
13th June 2013 Racist vandals paint swastika on proposed mosque site in Green Lane, Worcester Park
http://www.iengage.org.uk/news/2570-surrey-mosque-vandalised-with-swastika
9th June 2013 Following the fire at the Darul Uloom School in Chislehurst, the Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe said: “These are difficult times for London’s communities. The Met is now investigating suspicious fires at two locations within the Islamic community which have happened in the past few days.”
http://content.met.police.uk/News/Commissioners-statement-following-Chislehurst-fire/1400017783053/1257246745756
7th June 2013 Sayed Bana, 60, a committee member at the Somali Bravanese Centre in Muswell Hill, invited the thugs behind the blaze to end their campaign of violence and come to the negotiating table as the cross community hub lay in ruins….His call for calm came despite English Defence League supporters taking to social media sites to praise the apparent attack and call for further attacks on the Muslim community. One user wrote on the Yorkshire-Leeds EDL Division Facebook page: “Crying shame, if only it had been full.” Another added on the same page: “Next time do one at 3pm on a Friday afternoon.”
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/edl-hate-messages-as-leaders-call-for-peace-after-mosque-is-burnt-to-the-ground-8646716.html
5th June 2013 An Islamic centre in north London has been destroyed by a fire in an apparent hate crime attack. … A spokesman said the letters EDL were sprayed on to the building, used by the Somali Bravanese Welfare Association.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-22785074
30th May 2013 Trustee of Finsbury Park Mosque, Mohammed Kozbar, in an interview with local paper, Islington Gazette, speaks of a rise in verbal abuse experienced by worshippers at the mosque since the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby last week.
http://iengage.org.uk/news/2548-finsbury-park-mosque-reports-a-lot-of-verbal-attacks–
27th May 2013 A former soldier with a hatred of Muslims stuffed tissue into a bottle of beer and attempted to light it at a mosque, a court heard. John Parkin, 27, of Towyn Way West, Towyn, Conwy, pleaded guilty at a special court to threatening to burn down a mosque at Rhyl and religiously aggravated disorderly behaviour on Saturday.
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/former-soldier-admits-threatening-burn-4021567
27th May 2013 Humberside Police have made a total of 13 arrests following incidents at a mosque on Weelsby Road in Grimsby, Lincolnshire.
Two men, aged 33 and 37, remain in custody after they were arrested in connection with a fire at the mosque on Sunday night. Another 11 individuals were arrested last Thursday following reports of youths damaging vehicles and the Mosque.
http://www.itv.com/news/update/2013-05-27/police-13-arrested-in-grimsby-over-mosque-attacks/
24th May 2013 The Muslim Council of Wales fears inter-racial tensions are escalating in the wake of the slaying of a British serviceman after bacon was left in the entrance to a Welsh mosque.
Secretary of the Council Saleem Kidwai said the food, offensive to muslims on religious grounds, was left at the Shah Jalal mosque, in Cathays, Cardiff, on Wednesday night following the attack in Woolwich
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/bacon-left-entrance-cardiff-mosque-4007527
24th May 2013 A Mosque has been vandalised just hours after the suspected terrorist attack in Woolwich. The outer panel of a double-glazed window in a fire exit at Maidenhead Mosque in Holmanleaze was damaged this morning.
http://www.windsorobserver.co.uk/news/maidenhead/articles/2013/05/23/89713-mosque-vandalised-in-maidenhead-overnight-/
24th May 2013 Police are investigating a petrol bomb attack on a mosque in Milton Keynes. There were people inside the Granby Mosque at the time of the incident on Thursday night.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-22654435
23rd May 2013 A 43-year-old man from Essex has been charged with two counts of possession of offensive weapons and affray over an attack on an Islamic centre.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-22651294
22nd May 2013 A 45-year-old man is due before magistrates after an attack on a mosque in Gillingham just hours after the terror murder of a soldier in Woolwich. Andrew Grindlay, from Rochester, stands accused of religiously aggravated criminal damage and burglary.
http://www.kentonline.co.uk/medway_messenger/news/Reports-of-mosque-attack-1063/
22nd May 2013 English Defence League supporters clashed with police near Woolwich Arsenal railway station just hours after a soldier was butchered in the streets…In Woolwich, a group of between 75 and 100 men gathered at The Queen’s Arms pub on Burrage Grove, where they sang nationalist songs. EDL leader Stephen Lennon said: “Enough is enough. Our message is enough, enough. We have weak leaders. Our police, our leaders tip-toe around this issue. “This issue is political Islam, political Islam that is spreading across this country.”
http://news.sky.com/story/1094547/woolwich-edl-protests-as-mosques-targeted
6th May 2013 Headscarves have been torn off two Muslim women amid a spate of racist attacks carried out by children as young as eight. The young women, said to in their early 20s, were left ‘traumatised’ by the ordeal that saw two children hurl racist abuse before ripping off the hijabs. The culprits are believed to be aged eight and 14. The incident, on Tuesday afternoon, follows a spike in hate crimes against Polish and Muslim residents at Wester Hailes Park [Edinburgh] over the past week.
http://www.scotsman.com/news/police-launch-probe-into-race-hate-crime-spree-1-2921232
30th April 2013 A grandfather of 22 has been stabbed to death while on his way home from evening prayers at a Birmingham mosque. Mohammed Saleem, 75, was found after being stabbed three times in Green Lane, Small Heath, on Monday night.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-22348820
17th April 2013 Graffiti daubed on Cambridge mosque site: “For the murderous scum bags etc etc [later deleted by the Council]
http://twitpic.com/ck2awk
16th April 2013 A MAN racially abused a Muslim woman and demanded she took off her hijab before putting a kitchen knife to her throat. David Norris, 39, approached Farduja Jama who was with her eight-year-old son in Morton Street, Barton Hill at 9am.
http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/Knifeman-ordered-Bristol-women-hijabs/story-18717677-detail/story.html#axzz2QefWJWVw
8th April 2013 …Far Right extremists are establishing roots in Sunderland and spreading racial hatred across the city via Facebook. English Defence League (EDL) supporters chanting anti-Muslim slogans at last month’s demo against proposals for a new mosque of St Mark’s Road in Millfield….Comments have also been left in which Muslims in the city are described as “Muzrats” and “Muzzies”. One post says: “Just had a Muzrat in shop asking why I don’t have any clothes for her”.
http://www.sunderlandecho.com/news/crime/fascists-target-sunderland-muslims-on-facebook-1-5563246
10th Feb 2013 A mosque will not open in Chipping Norton after its landlord received a threat that it would be burnt to the ground. The town’s Muslim community had been celebrating after they won permission to open the permanent home on Monday. But their 79-year-old landlord Georg Wissinter has received a threatening phone call and pulled out of the deal.
http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/10217776.Plans_for_Chipping_Norton_mosque_scrapped_after_threats/
4th Feb 2013 Two men and a woman have appeared at Edinburgh Sheriff Court after bacon was allegedly thrown at and stuck to the Central Mosque. Douglas Cruikshank, 37, Chelsea Lambie, 17, and Wayne Stilwel, 24, were charged with a racially prejudiced offence.
http://www.scotsman.com/news/scottish-news/top-stories/three-in-court-after-bacon-thrown-at-central-mosque-1-2774793
1st Feb 2013 “A Conservative councillor has been suspended and is under investigation after allegedly making anti-Muslim comments and sectarian remarks on a social media website, the Guardian has learned. Chris Joannides’s Facebook page contained material comparing Muslim women who wear the burqa to rubbish bags”.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/feb/01/conservative-councillor-chris-joannides-facebook
31st Jan 2013 A Muslim family say they have been forced to move from their home after offensive graffiti and a cross wrapped in ham were left outside their house. Murad Alam, 39, said his wife and two sons, aged eight and 10, had moved out of their home in Bingham, Nottinghamshire, to a “safe” place.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-21265496
21st Jan 2013 Britain is a melting pot of nationalities and faiths, home to hundreds of thousands of Malians, Iraqis, Syrians, Somalis, Kenyans, Nigerians, Yemenis and Pakistanis.
Not all are grateful. Indeed, many are becoming outspokenly defiant. Some have colonised suburbs in major cities. One London borough is so staunchly Muslim it has become known as the Islamic Republic of Tower Hamlets.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/politics/article4754492.ece
15th Jan 2013 SIX men have been jailed and a youth reprimanded for causing trouble in Dewsbury and Heckmondwike after an English Defence League (EDL) demonstration in Cleckheaton.
The group, who were sentenced at Leeds Crown Court this morning, are all from Bradford.
http://www.dewsburyreporter.co.uk/news/local/more-local-news/seven-sentenced-for-violence-after-english-defence-league-demonstration-in-cleckheaton-1-5316401
14th Jan 2013 A member of the Thanet division of the English Defence League has quit the extreme political party after being contacted by the Isle of Thanet Gazette over posts on his Facebook page….In an interview with this newspaper last year, Mr Field said: “…We feel that honour killings, the grooming of young girls, burqas or sharia law have no place in Britain.” This is in stark contrast to some of the words posted on his Facebook page, some of which include: “Islam is evil”, “There be (sic) blood shed if muzzrats moved into my street it wont be mine”, and “kick Islam out of England”.
http://www.thisiskent.co.uk/Man-quits-Far-Right-league-Thanet-Gazette-expose/story-17827582-detail/story.html
13th Jan 2013 Gavin Boby, once linked to the far-right English Defence League, boasts he has already blocked plans for 16 out of 17 mosques being built. Under the banner of the Law and Freedom Foundation, he calls for people to come to him for free professional legal help in opposing mosque proposals and claims that Islam encourages paedophilia, sexual abuse and pimping.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2261623/Mosque-buster-claims-stop-tide-Islam-giving-free-advice-block-building-plans-new-places-worship.html
