Police are investigating a sick anti-Muslim website set up on Facebook to stir up tensions over fake claims a ‘super-mosque’ was being built in Wrexham.The site “No to the super mosque in Wrexham” on the social network site wrongly claims permission has been given for a mosque at the Miners Institute in North Wales’s largest town. And the website, which bears the Welsh Defence League logo, is also filled with hateful messages against Muslims, which North Wales Police are now investigating.
The web group has more than 2,800 members and this follows a march by the Welsh Defence League designed to stir up tensions in the town. A counter group “Yes to the Super Mosque in Wrexham” has also been set up on Facebook.
The Wrexham Muslim Association (WMA) has denied there are any plans to convert the town’s Miners Institute building into a mosque but said there were plans to lease a small building in the town for worship. A spokesman for the WMA said: “There is nothing in this rumour we are setting up a mosque at the Miners Institute. We simply do not have enough money to do anything like that. But we are hopeful of leasing a place from the council next to St James’ Church in Wrexham.”
Commenting on the anti-Muslim remarks on the webpage on Facebook the spokesman added: “They are upsetting and annoying and I don’t want to pay any attention to such remarks.”
Ian Tetherington, secretary for anti-fascist group Searchlight Cymru, said: “A mosque is not something to be scared of, it would be something to be proud of. Wrexham has a history of tolerance and should be proud of that. These people are Welsh, they just happen to be Muslims, instead of Christians or Hindus, but they are still Welsh and just want somewhere to worship like other faiths.
“I don’t see why anyone would have a problem with them worshipping in a safe, dry place. The idea this is a ‘super-mosque’ is a complete fabrication made up to stir things up and create tension. There are a few hundred Muslims in Wrexham so why would they want a huge place of worship, this is simply not the case. Like other faiths in the town they just want somewhere to meet rather than the temporary building where they are currently having to meet. I live close to a mosque myself in Cardiff and do not understand why people would have an issue with it.”
A North Wales Police spokesman said: “We are aware of the site and are investigating. We are also liaising with members of the local community.”
Daily Post
This sounds very serious, it was in today's Hugh Muir column in the Guardian.
ReplyDelete......just like any other, when its people are issuing death threats. Two have been referred to the police in recent weeks. One by Dominic Carman, Griffin's one-time biographer who is standing against him as a Liberal Democrat in Barking. He says his threat came from an "identifiable individual, a BNP supporter". The other threat – a video posted on the web in the name of Wandsworth BNP – featured Equality and Human Rights Commission chief Trevor Phillips, the man the party loves to hate, and suggested he be "dealt with". Both men have urged Nick to intervene and condemn the culprits. For "this is London in 2010, not Berlin in 1933", says Carman. The response: silence.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/mar/03/hugh-muir-diary-nigel-farage
Yet more criminality and pure race hate BNP-style tactics from the supposedly "non-racist EDL".
ReplyDeleteIt's about time the EDL/SDL/WDL were banned, if not, sabotaged from the inside.
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1194317_religious_leaders_call_for_edl_rally_ban
ReplyDeleteFAITH LEADERS CALL FOR EDL RALLY BAN
How does a super-mosque differ from an ordinary mosque? Are there also super-churches, super-temples and super-synagogues? And is Griffin the Nietzschian Super-man incarnate? I think I know the answer to the last one.
ReplyDeletedo a search for the group and report it - lets get it banned!
ReplyDeleteHopefully there will be a large anti-fash mobilisation in London, Bolton and Sheffield.
ReplyDeleteEDL TO RETURN TO STAFFORDSHIRE: -
ReplyDeletehttp://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/news/Police-guard-EDL-plans-return/article-1876532-detail/article.html
An EDL fan is inmpersonating Frank Gallagher on Facebook to hook Shameless fans into racism:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.facebook.com/people/Frank-Gallagher/100000135173634
I thought it was not permitted to impersonate celebrities.
Might be worth contacting Channel Four so they can take legal action against this racist EDL imposter.
Another EDL site pretending to be revolutionary, where racism is the norm, and which contains both Wilders and Enoch Powell's Rivers Of Blood Speech.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.facebook.com/pages/TIME-FOR-A-REVOLUTION/271696129761
Bloody bad news is the fascist infiltration of the internet!
I have placed a link to the page here under the fascists section under "Facebook":
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Looks like you need to request to join now.