The headline on the front page of the Leicester Mercury this week read: ‘We will not let inciters of hate win.’
The respected local newspaper does not identify any of those exploiting tensions between Muslims and Hindus in a city held up as a model of multicultural Britain, but now living in fear of sectarian violence.
One of the agitators, however, who has remained anonymous until today, is a man whose notoriety extends far beyond the East Midlands.
TEHRAN: Thousands demonstrated across Iran on Friday at government-backed pro-hijab counter rallies, after a week of bloody protests over the death of a woman arrested for wearing the Islamic headscarf “improperly.”
At least 50 people have been killed by security forces in the anti-government protests, Iran Human Rights, an Oslo-based organization, said on Friday — more than three times the official death toll of 17, which includes five security personnel.
IRAN has deployed an all-female unit of police commandos in bid to break protests sweeping the country after the brutal killing of a young woman over her hijab.
The Islamic Republic has been plunged into chaos after the death of Mahsa Amini, who was beaten, arrested and left in a coma by the regime’s morality police – The Guidance Patrol.
Online personalities are causing trouble in the Midlands
In the digital age, conflict travels quickly. Last weekend’s Muslim-Hindu violence in Leicester later spilled into Birmingham, driven on by social media rumours, and amid claims that an incendiary Hindu preacher, Sadhvi Rithambara, was due to appear at a temple there. As it happened, Rithambara was too ill to attend, but the temple in question had already moved to cancel her appearance once local Muslims informed them about her record. But the rapid spread of violence through social media shows how sectarianism has evolved with technology.
Islamic scholar Mohammed Hijab is inciting Muslims to attack Hindus in the UK. (obviously, he is following the example of his "prophet")
Police continued to allow him to raise an Islamic army against non-Muslims after he threatened to kill dogs and Jews last August in London. pic.twitter.com/juX0nIY84r
— Amy Mek (@AmyMek) September 22, 2022
Jay Patel was running a busy dinner service at his vegetarian restaurant, Shiv Sagar, on Leicester’s famous Golden Mile, on Saturday night. The dining room was packed with about 80 customers – couples, families, even a local councillor – when suddenly, huge crowds of young men marched past.
It’s estimated there were hundreds of men out that night. Most were masked and dressed head-to-toe in black – and some appeared to be armed. It was terrifying, Mr Patel tells me.
“People were running on this side, on that side, banging on the door… we closed all the lights and all the curtains,” he says. “It was very scary.”
What ever happened to Linda Sarsour? In a lengthy and weepy Sunday feature, the New York Times lamented the downfall of its golden girl: “In 2015, when she was 35, a New York Times profile anointed her — a ‘Brooklyn Homegirl in a Hijab’ — as something rare, a potential Arab American candidate for elected office.” But now, their once-rising star has fallen resoundingly, dismissed from the Women’s March for her vicious and open antisemitism and no longer the media darling she once was. The Times, in trying to polish Sarsour’s tarnished reputation on Sunday, came up with a novel explanation for her downfall: it wasn’t because her Jew hatred was too extreme even for the Left. It was because Linda Sarsour was the target of “Russian trolls.” What’s next, New York Times? Space aliens stole her brain?
There are some frauds so massively insane that Americans won’t do them. Someone has to.
I covered this story back in the winter, relying on the important work of local reporters like Bill Glahn at the American Experiment. The story is mindblowing for the sheer scale of the fraud.
The death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini after she was detained by Iran’s so-called morality police has sparked angry protests, with women burning their headscarves in a defiant act of resistance against the Islamic Republic’s strict dress code and those enforcing it.
The Gasht-e Ershad (Guidance Patrols) are special police units tasked with ensuring the respect of Islamic morals and detaining people who are perceived to be “improperly” dressed.
Under Iranian law, which is based on the country’s interpretation of Sharia, women are obliged to cover their hair with a hijab (headscarf) and wear long, loose-fitting clothing to disguise their figures.
Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Dzenan Camovic was sentenced by United States District Judge Rachel P. Kovner to 30 years in prison for the robbery of a New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer’s firearm and discharging that firearm at several NYPD officers during the course of the robbery. Camovic, who was inspired by terrorism, is a Bosnian citizen illegally in the United States. He will be deported after completing his sentence. He is also scheduled to be sentenced in state court in Brooklyn today to state charges arising out of the same conduct.
Survivors of the 2016 Bastille day attack in Nice have described how the seafront was turned into a “war zone” when a gunman drove a heavy truck at high speed into the crowd gathered to watch fireworks in the French Riviera city.
“It was war, people were crushed, I saw a woman being run down with a baby in her arms,” said Abdallah Kebaïer, a retired maintenance worker, who was catapulted into the air by the truck and suffered seven broken ribs, head trauma and injuries to his liver and pancreas.
… Laith Marouf — the antisemitic, anti-racist, pro-decolonization activist who received federal funding to make a socially just broadcasting strategy for the country — isn’t exercising it. Instead, in a statement released Monday, he doubled down on his antisemitic talking points that caused his funding to be revoked. Perhaps he should have stayed silent, because he isn’t a very sympathetic character.
Essayist Sandelin writes: “I doubt those who lived here a generation ago would believe me when I tell them what is happening today.”
“I live outside Malmö, a city with 50,000 Muslims, most of them with roots in the Middle East. We cannot ignore the situation in which the Jews find themselves here, because the synagogue has to be guarded, because the seat of the community looks like a fortress, because the Jews don’t dare go out with a kippa, because people spit on the rabbi in the street, because the Jewish teachers are harassed at school, because Malmö Jews emigrate. Since getting my head bloodied by the Communist police in February 1948, I have not suffered as much violence as in Malmö, when in a demonstration for peace in the Middle East we were pelted with stones and bottles by a roaring crowd with Palestinian flags. It is natural that Malmö’s Social Democratic majority did not stop anti-Semitism in the city. Between 80 to 90 percent of voters in areas with high immigrant density vote for Social Democrats. This is what the situation of Jews in Sweden looks like today ”.
Two Bombings in One Night? That’s Normal Now in Sweden.
My country just voted in a right-wing government. The almost 500 bombings since 2018 may have something to do with it.
Yesterday morning, Swedes woke up to news of a kind that has become all-too familiar: During the night, powerful bombs exploded at apartment buildings in two different towns in southern Sweden.
… Among shooting suspects, 85 percent are first- or second-generation immigrants, according to the newspaper Dagens Nyheter, as immigrant neighborhoods have become hotbeds for gang crime. National Police Commissioner Anders Thornberg has described the violence as “an entirely different kind of brutality than we’ve seen before” and his deputy, Mats Löfving, says that 40 criminal clans now operate throughout the country. Spreading fear are “humiliation robberies,” targeting children and youth, in which victims are subjected to degrading treatment by assailants, such as being urinated upon. Just this week, four men were sentenced for robbing, beating and urinating on an 18-year-old, who was also filmed by his tormentors.
Mahsa Amini. That was her name. Say it out loud wherever you happen to be standing. Shout it from a busy street corner in Toronto. Say it to your fellow passengers on a bus in Vancouver. Say her name to yourself, quietly. Say it now, as you read this. It’s pointless, but do it anyway. Just say her name: Mahsa Amini.
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