Tag: Facebook

Council Worker Suspended Over ‘Kick Islam Out Of Britain’ Facebook Post

By Jennifer Williams – ManchesterEveningNews.co.uk   A town hall worker has been suspended after posting an Islamophobic comment on Facebook. Dave Balderstone, 46, replied to a British National Party post with the message: ‘Kick Islam out of Britain – we need our country back.’ Manchester council bosses took action last week after a member of the public… Read More ›

Anti-Islam – Anti-Muslim Group’s Hateful Bus Ads Covered Up By Signs Featuring Muslim Superhero

By Travis Gettys – Rawstory.com   Anti-Muslim bus advertisements in San Francisco are being covered up by anti-bigotry messages featuring a Muslim comic book superhero. The original advertisements, placed on the sides of MUNI buses by blogger Pamela Geller’s American Freedom Defense Initiative, compare Muslims to Nazis and claim the Koran orders followers to hate… Read More ›

Men Fined For Threatening To ‘torch’ And ‘Blow Up’ Mosque On Facebook

By Jeremy Culley – TheBoltonNews.co.uk TWO men have been convicted of making Facebook threats to “torch” and “blow up” a proposed new mosque in Astley Bridge. Police arrested both men for posting offensive messages on the Stop The Astley Bridge Facebook page, which has since been taken down. Leon Richmond, aged 18, wrote on the… Read More ›

Extremist Hindus Arrested After Muslim Man Beaten To Death

  Police in India say they have arrested 17 members of a hardline Hindu group after a Muslim man was beaten to death in the western city of Pune. Mohsin Sadiq Shaikh, 28, was stopped by a group of men on Monday night and beaten with rods and sticks. The attackers were angry over some… Read More ›

Sri Lankan Military Promises To Tackle Online Hate Speech After Anti-Muslim Riots

By Agence France-Presse – RawStory.com Monday, June 30, 2014   Colombo (AFP) – Sri Lanka will clamp down on Internet hate speech following deadly anti-Muslim riots said to have been fueled by social media sites, the military said Monday. Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapakse has asked the law and order ministry to deal with racial and religious… Read More ›

India: In Pune – ‘Hindu extremists’ kill man over ‘offensive’ Facebook post, 13 arrested

By timesofindia.indiatimes.com Jun 5, 2014, 02.36 AM IST PUNE: A 28-year-old man was beaten to death on Monday night by people with suspected links with a Hindu fundamentalist outfit over a Facebook message they found offensive, according to police. Six more youths were arrested on Wednesday for the murder of Mohsin Mohammed Sadique Shaikh. The police… Read More ›

Anti-Muslim bigots freak out when Texas TV station warns of oncoming haboob

By Travis Gettys Texas television station KCBD kicked up a cloud of anti-Muslim bigotry Tuesday night by sharing an alert from the National Weather Service on its Facebook page. “Haboob northwest of Lubbock as seen from the Science Spectrum,” the NWS warned. “If you must drive west of Lubbock, plan for near-zero visibility in blowing dust and… Read More ›

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