Greece: Police Beating Immigrant Caught on Tape

Iranian VP: European Leaders Fear Spread of Islam Via FNA : The eye-catching growth in the number of mosques being built in Europe has made leaders of the European states deeply fearful of the rapid spread of Islam and increasing conversion of their nations from Christianity, Iranian Vice-President Seyed Mohammad Reza Mir-Tajeddini said.

UK: ‘Creeping Sharia’ trend shows what Twitter thinks of the EDL Via the Telegraph : Tommy Robinson, the founder of the English Defence League, got more than he bargained for when he started the Twitter hashtage #creepingsharia, writes Matt Warman The Luton-based politician, real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, wrongly identified the Taj Mahal mausoleum as a mosque when it was used on the Twitter homepage on Sunday night. He tweeted “welcome to twitter homepage has a picture of a mosque

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Leicestershire: Councillor facing probe over message criticising Muslims Via the Leicester Mercury (h/t DW): A Leicestershire county councillor is being investigated after distributing a leaflet which criticised Muslims. Earlier this year, Graham Partner – who quit the BNP to sit as an independent – sent out a New Year message to voters in his Coalville division.

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Moscow: 10 students jailed for racist bomb attacks Via AFP : A Moscow court on Thursday sentenced 10 university students to up to 13 years in prison on “terrorism” charges for staging bombing attacks against security buildings and Muslim targets.

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Moscow: Ethnic Azerbaijani found with slit throat Via AFP : The body of a Russian national of Azerbaijani origin has been found in Moscow with his throat slashed, his former employer said on Wednesday, blaming a gang of ultra-nationalists for his murder. Metin Mekhtiyev, a 33-year-old Muscovite, was coming home from a grocery store on Tuesday when a group of assailants attacked him near his residential building in central Moscow. “A group of five people including a young woman first beat him up and then slit his throat,” said Maryam Nalobina, a representative of the Russian Islamic Cultural Centre, citing information from witnesses.

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Flanders: Far-right party creates anti-immigrant website Via AFP : A Flemish far-right party launched a website Tuesday inviting people to report crimes committed by illegal immigrants, mirroring a controversial initiative in the Netherlands. The website created by Vlaams Belang (Flemish Interest) allows people to file anonymous tip-offs of social security fraud, work on the black market and more serious crimes, a move anti-racism activists compared to Nazi tactics. ( source )

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Corsica/Berlin: Mosques attacked Via AFP : French police said Monday they were probing a “racist” arson attack on a Muslim prayer hall in Ajaccio, the capital of the Mediterranean island of Corsica. The interior ministry said in a statement that the arson took place overnight and that “writing of a racist nature were found on the facade of the building housing the place of worship”. ( source ) Early Sunday morning paint was thrown at the Sehitlik mosque in the Neukölln district of Berlin

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Bulgaria: Muslims recall communist repression Via AP : The forced renaming of Muslims began in 1973 in Kornitsa with its 1,800 ethnic Bulgarian Pomak Muslims and spread across the nation.

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Norway: Breivik inspired by secret British anti-Islamic network Via Dagbladet : Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet reports that Anders Behring Breivik told police investigators he was inspired by a secret anti-Islamic network called the Four Freedoms Community (FFC). FFC is run by British businessman Alan Lake, who preaches his messages through person contact, business cards, and secret meetings in two churches in London. Dagbladet repeatedly tried to contact Lake without response

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