Moscow: High-ranking Interior Ministry officials suspected of extortion from Muslim community Via Interfax : Federal Security Service officials have submitted to the Prosecutor General’s Office materials stating that several high-ranking officials from the Interior Ministry’s Main Department for the Prevention of Extremism extorted a large amount of money from a Moscow Muslim community, Kommersant daily reports. “The Federal Security Service officers obtained information that a major extortion incident had occurred in the Moscow Lefortovsky market before the New year holidays. According to that information, a group of police officers went to the market under the pretext of an inspection, suspended the market’s operation and demanded 1 million rubles from traders for permission to resume work,” Kommersant writes

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Ukraine: Newspaper depicts Africans and Arabs as monkeys groping woman Via France24 : A local newspaper in the western Ukrainian city of Ternopil illustrated its front-page story on Tuesday with a photomontage of monkeys groping a woman to depict African and Arab men who had allegedly gotten into a bar fight. Our Observer, a Congolese student living in Ternopil, tells us this has deeply upset African students at his university, who he says are frequently the target of racist attacks.

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Denmark: Danish People’s Party wants full stop to Muslim immigration Via JP (Danish): The Danish People’s Party (DPP) wants to put a stop to immigration from Muslim countries, according to a new press release by the party. The party says Muslims don’t integrate and cause big problems with shariah zones, parallel societies and social control. The announcement followed the release of marriage figures for immigrant groups.

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Surrey: girl attacked for wearing headscarf Via the BBC (h/t Islamophobia Watch ): A race attack in Surrey on an 11-year-old girl will be the focus of community talks in Sunbury-on-Thames. The girl was attacked by older white girls who kicked her, pushed her to the ground and drew on her face. Surrey Police said it seemed the girl had been targeted on 11 January because she was wearing a headscarf.

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Norway: Lawyer calls to stop ‘Islam’s incursion into Europe’ Via Nordlys (Norwegian): Prominent lawyer Brynjar Østgård wants to stop Islam in Norway and thinks Islam threatens Norwegian culture and social order. “It’s difficult to find a Muslim-dominated country with the same social order we have

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Sweden: ‘Your baby looks like Saddam Hussein’ Via the Local : An administrator at the Swedish Migration Board (Migrationsverket) is facing disciplinary action after telling a family of Iraqi asylum seekers that their newborn baby looked like Saddam Hussein. The man, who has worked at the agency for 30 years, is also under investigation for physically assaulting a female colleague and making derogatory remarks about a woman wearing a headscarf. ( source )

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Flanders: 53% don’t want Muslim doctor Via Het Nieuwsblad (Dutch): 53% of the Flemish prefer not having a Muslim family doctor. 40% prefer a White doctor. 22% said they prefer not being treated by a gay doctor.

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London: Fifteen arrested after EDL supporters clash with locals Via the Guardian : Police have arrested 15 people after violence between far-right activists and local youths outside a mosque in east London. Witnesses said the clash near the East London Mosque in Whitechapel erupted after supporters of the English Defence League chanted anti-Muslim slogans.

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Netherlands: PVV in Limburg under fire over ’sicked-up halal meat’ comment Via DutchNews : The anti-Islam PVV in Limburg is again under fire after one provincial councillor described a Labour party colleague as ‘a piece of sicked-up halal meat made from a Turkish pig’. The comment was made by PVV number two Cor Bosman in an email to 20 supporters after Labour councillor Selçuk Öztürk gave an interview to a local magazine, the Eindhovens Dagblad reports. ( source )

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UK: Judge critical of sentencing powers for anti-Muslim comments Via the BBC : A judge said it was “quite staggering” that he could only impose a fine on a former soldier who admitted making racist remarks about Muslims. John Parkin, 26, from Rhyl, said he wanted to “shoot Muslims in the head” and admitted being a racist. Judge Niclas Parry jailed Parkin for 10 months for breaching an earlier suspended sentence

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