Thousands Mobilise Against Planned
anti-Islam Denmark Demo
02 April 2012By Juan Cole
Several thousand people turned out for an open-air
concert in Denmark's second city of Aarhus on
Wednesday to protest against a far-right anti-Islam
rally planned for March 31, officials said.
Aarhus city officials said they organised the concert
as a way of showing the city's tolerance and because
"Aarhus does not want to be associated with extremist
groups" that represent "everything we want to distance
ourselves from." Around 5,000 people attended
Wednesday's concert, a spokesman for the mayor's
office said.
Far-right groups from across Europe are scheduled to
meet in Aarhus on March 31 for an anti-Islam rally
organised by the Danish Defence League, a sister
organisation of the English Defence League.
A spokesman for the Danish group, Philip Traulsen,
said the programme for the meeting had not been
confirmed but that it would deal with "the obvious
problems caused by radical Islam." In an email to AFP,
he said some 300 to 1,000 people were expected to
attend the rally, which he said would "probably be the
biggest anti-Islam demonstration on Danish soil."
A counter-demonstration organised by the group "Aarhus
for Diversity" was to be held at the same time in the
town of 315,000 people, located on the Jutland
peninsula north of Germany.
Local police, who have requested reinforcements, "will
be present en masse", eastern Jutland police official
Mogens Broendum said. But shopowners have expressed
concern and a number of restaurants have already
indicated they plan to close on the day of the rally,
he said.
Racist Thugs Spat On
Four-year-old Girl And Beat Up Her Mother In A
Sickening Attack In Her Corner Shop by Leon Watson
(Daily Mail)
Racist thugs spat on a four-year-old girl and brutally
beat her mother in a sickening attack.
Saly Chowdhury was left with a black eye and facial
injuries after two men and a woman tried to steal two
boxes of crisps from her shop, the Hendon Valley
Stores in Sunderland.
The incident took place on last Friday at 4.40pm when
the mother-of-four ran out of the shop after the
thieves and accidentally locked herself outside.
When the trio started hurling racist abuse at her, she
fled to her home nearby.
But they caught up with her and spat on her
four-year-old daughter Ousha, shoved her
seven-year-old daughter against the wall and thumped
her 13-year-old daughter in the face.
The gang then turned their attentions to Saly, 31,
punching her in the face, tearing out chunks of her
hair and choking her with her scarf.
Saly, who also has a nine-year-old daughter, managed
to free herself and get herself and her children
inside to safety.
And just 12 hours later the mum-of-four was back
behind the shop counter, determined not to let the
vicious thugs get the better of her.
Saly, who refuses to sell alcohol in her store, said:
‘I had to close my shop
on Friday and I lost business.
‘I'm not letting them do that to me again. It was
scary and it's worrying going back to work but there
is no need for this behaviour.
‘I have many great customers who know me and I know
them. If this is all about stealing, then please speak
to me first and we can see if something can be sorted
out.
‘The problem of people coming in here and stealing
things is getting worse and worse.'
Northumbria Police yesterday said the incident ‘simply
won't be tolerated'.
An investigation into the attack has been launched and
is being treated as
racially aggravated.
Sergeant Tom Connor, who covers the area, said: ‘This
type of behaviour is despicable.
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