Two teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of arson after a fire engulfed part of a south London mosque said to be the largest in western Europe. Seventy firefighters battled the blaze at at the Baitul Futuh mosque in Morden … Continue reading
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Austrian far-right party gets electoral boost from refugee crisis
Austria’s far-right Freedom Party (FPO) doubled its votes to finish a strong second in a state election on Sunday, dealing a blow to the two main centrist parties which were left nursing heavy losses. The conservative Austrian People’s Party (OVP) … Continue reading
Demonstrators have attacked a bus of refugees in Finland with stones and fireworks.
Between 30 and 40 protesters, one wearing a white robe like those worn by the white supremacist group the Ku Klux Klan in the US, waved the Finnish flag and shouted abuse at the bus in the southern town of … Continue reading
A politician likened a black minister to an ‘organ-utan’ and escaped racism charges
Italy’s prime minister, Matteo Renzi, has called a meeting of senators after they voted against bringing racism charges against a politician who likened the country’s first black minister to an “orangutan”.Prime Minister Renzi told L’Unita: “There will be a meeting … Continue reading
Marine Le Pen to face trial for inciting racial hatred
The far-right leader compared Muslim street prayers to the Nazi occupation of France. Marine Le Pen, head of France’s far-right National Front party, will face trial in October on a charge of inciting racial hatred for having compared Muslim street … Continue reading
Russia bans five online LGBT youth groups under anti-gay law
Five online LGBT youth groups have been added to a banned list by the Russian watchdog. The watchdog, Roskomnadzor, banned the groups, all registered on the country’s most popular social network VKontakte. The district court in the city of Barnaul imposed … Continue reading
The Far-Right Golden Dawn Is Still Greek’s Third Most Popular Political Party
Last night, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras celebrated his second parliamentary victory in less than a year. With nearly all votes counted, his left-wing party, SYRIZA, had received a little less than 36 percent of ballots, while the right-leaning New … Continue reading
Hungary Detains Migrants in Border Crackdown
Tough laws aimed at keeping out migrants came into effect in Hungary early Tuesday, a harsh new element in the European Union’s struggle with the influx of migrants and a further fraying of the bloc’s cherished principle of open borders. … Continue reading
Muslims become number one victims of hate crimes in Spain
At least 57 cases of hate crime have been reported throughout Spain so far this year, says the Interior Ministry. And most of those complaints, which are now investigated in all their forms under the new penal code, are the … Continue reading
Far-Right Leader Wants Migrants Sent to Terezin Concentration Camp
Police in the Czech Republic are investigating comments made on Facebook by an extremist politician calling for refugees to be placed in Terezin, the former Nazi concentration camp. Adam Bartos, the leader of the fringe yet vocal far-right nationalist National … Continue reading