Fascist graffiti on the Le Barp prayer hall in September 2012Sud Ouest reports that a Molotov cocktail has been thrown at Muslim prayer hall at Le Barp in south-west France, which had already suffered three racist graffiti attacks by fascists this year (see here and here).

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A Far Right group is to stage a further demonstration over the proposed opening of a new mosque.

The Northern Patriotic Front, formed in Newcastle by ex-members of the National Front in August, is to stage what it insists will be a peaceful hour-long protest in the Millfield area of Sunderland at noon on Saturday (November 17).

Police say they expect a counter demonstration by anti-fascist groups and have warned that anyone causing trouble will be dealt with.

Saturday's demonstration will be the fourth this year staged by Far Right groups over plans by the Pakistan Islamic Centre to open a mosque in St Mark's Road. The last, organised by the North-East Infidels, ended in violence and 13 arrests.

Earlier this year, Sunderland City Council has granted planning permission for the conversion of a former transport depot into a mosque.

Simon Biggs, spokesman for the Northern Patriotic Front, said he expected "30 to 40" demonstrators and added: "We will be holding banners and placards and trying to get our message across – it will be a peaceful protest".

Northern Echo, 14 November 2012

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Golden Dawn anti-Muslim posterDressed in black shirts with faces hidden by helmets, ten men on motorbikes came to find him on a Saturday, after darkness fell.

Finding the door bolted at his home in a pot-holed Athens side street, they smashed the windows, broke in and trashed the place. Then, their dirty work done, the neo-Nazi gang roared away into the hot evening. It had taken less than a minute for them to sound an ugly warning that foreigners were not welcome in Greece.

Their target was Imam Shahbaz Siddiqi, a 42-year-old spiritual leader of the Greek capital's 500,000 Muslims. "I was at the mosque praying when they searched for me the other night," he told me yesterday. "I thank God for that, or else I might now be dead.

"During the night I went three times to the police station to report the break-in. At the desk I was told that the officers did not have time to investigate my complaint. They were too busy. There is one law for the Greek people and another for us immigrants."

The attack on Imam Siddiqi is the latest racist outrage by neo-Nazis in a country riddled with xenophobia. In an era of crushing debt and poverty, the immigrant is blamed for almost every Greek ill.

On the same weekend, a young Pakistani immigrant, Hussein Abbas, was viciously attacked outside his home in Elefsina on the outskirts of Athens by the men in dark shirts. He ended up in hospital, his face smashed to a bloody pulp.

So dangerous are the streets for foreigners that the U.S. State Department has sent out a warning to dark-skinned American visitors that they must be careful of their safety when they leave their hotels.

A shocking internet video shows leaders of the anti-immigrant Far-Right Golden Dawn party – which has 18 MPs – marching into an ethnic street market at Rafina, an hour's drive from Athens, destroying the stalls with wooden clubs and scattering the merchandise to the ground.

"We found a few illegal immigrants selling their wares without permits," says Giorgos Germenis, one of the party's MPs. "We did what our party has to do and then went to church to pay respects to the Madonna."

Daily Mail, 18 October 2012

Postscript:  Golden Dawn are not without their admirers on the far right in the UK.

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The Sunderland mosque protest wasn't the only far-right anti-Muslim demonstration in the UK yesterday. Britain First, a small fascist grouping led by former British National Party councillor Paul Golding and the party's ex-fundraiser Jim Dowson, held a protest in London demanding "justice for victims of Muslim grooming". They demonstrated outside Downing Street before marching down the road to Parliament Square where they burnt a Saudi flag. (There is of course a clear connection between the Saudi monarchy and the disappearance of Charlene Downes in Blackpool.)

Britain First claims that their demonstration was attended by "around 80-100 patriots, from several organisations". Judging by the photographs on their own website it looks like no more than a couple of dozen were there. However, Paul Golding's claim that a "disciplined delegation from the English Defence League" was among those participating is interesting, given that other organisations that were represented included the BNP and the ex-EDL breakaway group the Infidels. According to Hope Not Hate another participant was the veteran neo-Nazi Eddie Stamton, who a year ago was proscribed by the EDL, along with the Infidels.

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