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SEYMOUR -- A black student will be charged with a hate crime for writing "whites only" on a wall near a water fountain at Seymour High School. The 17-year-old senior, whose name was not released by police, was arrested Wednesday and charged with breach of peace for a separate incident at the high school. Police said while in custody, he confessed to writing the message, which was found during the homecoming dance on Saturday. Police will apply for an arrest warrant for a separate charge of breach of peace and possible other charges, including vandalism and bigotry, Capt. Paul Beres...

    Cleared ... station manager Victor Cooney      EXCLUSIVE  Ruined by black Jelly Baby By TONY BONNICINovember 03, 2006           TWO Tube workers have been cleared of racially harassing a colleague with JELLY BABIES.  A jury took just one hour to acquit Carlo Rozza, 45, and Victor Cooney, 47, at the end of a farcical eight-day trial that cost £250,000.They had denied taunting black colleague Daniel Jean-Marie with black Jelly Babies.Victor Cooney said the strain had nearly destroyed his marriage and relationship with his children.He said: “The trial has been a complete farce. The whole...

In the last few days in Britain, three events have caused what was already a small crack in the paper-thin edifice of "multiculturalism" in Britain to widen to a noticeable fissure. First, 14-year old British schoolgirl Codie Stott was arrested for trying to get a good grade in her group science project. She had been placed with a group of students only one of whom spoke any English. When they began talking what she deduced was Urdu among themselves, she realized she had no hope of completing the project. She went to her teacher, and prefacing her request with a...

Repeated vandalism of mosque stirs fear BY BETH AARON AVALANCHE-JOURNAL Members of a Lubbock mosque fear for their safety as vandals have continuously defaced their place of worship. Within the last month, the Islamic Center of the South Plains at 3419 La Salle Ave. has been vandalized at least three times. Between 11 p.m. Monday and 6:45 a.m. Tuesday, someone wrote the misspelled word "Redemtion" in black spray paint and scribbled lines on the sidewalks. "I don't know what is the message they're trying to give," said Faiz Rahman, a member of the mosque and the adviser to Texas Tech's...

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) - A sailor pleaded guilty Monday to abducting and killing a Marine corporal he thought had been involved in a gang rape. The rape turned out to be a lie, but the truth surfaced too late. Petty Officer 3rd Class Cooper Jackson, 23, pleaded guilty Monday to premeditated murder, kidnapping, impersonating a Naval Criminal Investigative Service agent and obstruction of justice in connection with the death of Cpl. Justin L. Huff, 23. In exchange for his guilty plea, prosecutors agreed to spare him a possible death sentence. Federal agents had testified at his Article 32 hearing, the...

On Wednesday, the FBI released a report detailing hate crimes that occurred in 2005. This report should drive a stake into the heart of incessant claims by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) of an anti-Muslim backlash in the US since 9/11. Of the 1,405 victims of an anti-religion hate crime, 69.5 percent were Jewish (848 incidents resulting in 900 offenses committed against 977 victims by 364 offenders). In comparison, 10.7 percent were Muslim (128 incidents resulting in 146 offenses committed against 151 victims by 89 offenders). In its latest "anti-Muslim backlash" report – a very wide-margin and large type...

Muslim Student Groups Praise Authorities For Handling Of Koran Incidents October 19, 2006 Representatives of city Muslim organizations gathered Thursday to condemn two possible anti-Muslim bias crimes at Pace University. But as Criminal Justice Reporter Solana Pyne explains in the following report, the groups are impressed with authorities for the way they're investigating the incidents. In the space of a month there have been two separate incidents where a Koran, the Muslim holy book, was found in a Pace University toilet. The most recent was found just last Friday. "This is no different from placing a burning cross in front...

Muslim activists called on Pace University yesterday to crack down on hate crimes after a second copy of the Koran was found in a toilet at its Manhattan campus. "This incident meets the legal definition of a hate crime," said Aliya Latif, a member of the Association of Muslim American Lawyers. "Indeed, this is no different from placing a burning cross in front of a house or painting a swastika on a locker." The discovery of the holy book in a toilet at Pace's lower Manhattan campus on Oct. 13 follows a similar act at Pace on Sept. 21. Earlier...

AUBURN, Maine --A Lewiston man accused of rolling a pig's head into a mosque talked to a police officer beforehand and believed he'd be guilty only of littering or improperly disposing of animal parts, according to court documents. Brent Matthews said he ran into a longtime friend who's a police officer at the Lewiston Mall a week before the July 3 incident and asked about the ramifications of leaving a pig's head in a doorway, the documents said.

Cassey Weierbach, a Freedom High School graduate who stayed busy on the lecture circuit sharing an account of being raped in childhood and infected with AIDS, has been charged with defrauding the state of more than $66,000 by falsely claiming to have the disease.

As the fight over immigration reform drags on, an ominous undercurrent to the debate — racism — is becoming more pronounced. From muttered ethnic slurs to violent attacks, activists say an anti-immigrant backlash seems to be growing in America's neighborhoods and workplaces. A few political leaders have called proposed immigration measures before Congress "racist." "The climate has gotten demonstrably worse and it is racially charged," said Devin Burghart of the Center for New Community, which tracks anti-immigrant activity. "It's not simply a debate about immigration policy. ... It's about race and national identity and who and what we are as...

Anti-immigrant sentiment grows into nationwide hate crimesBy Charlene MuhammadUpdated May 16, 2006, 03:32 pm   Protesting students from across California march towards city hall in Los Angeles, Apr. 15. The march is dedicated to 14-year-old Anthony Soltero, who committed suicide after allegedly being threatened by a school official for participating in immigration protests. Photo: AP/World Wide Photos LOS ANGELES (FinalCall.com) - As nationwide pro-immigrant conferences, marches and rallies continue alongside the increasing debate over immigration reform legislation, anti-immigrant sentiments are transforming into hate crimes against immigrants, particularly Latinos. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger recently informed that some Latino officials, including California...

SACRAMENTO — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Monday that prominent public officials of Mexican heritage, including Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, have recently received racially motivated death threats. At a news conference in the Capitol, Schwarzenegger said he had asked district attorneys throughout the state to take extra precautions against hate-based crimes. Villaraigosa and Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante have both "received disturbing and hateful death threats," the governor said. The governor's advisors had heard about the threats from a Sacramento news report. They told the governor, who decided to make a public statement. (snip) Villaraigosa told KCAL-TV Channel 9 news late...

The lieutenant governor and the mayor of Los Angeles, both Hispanic Democrats, have received threats amid a national debate over immigration policy, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Monday. Schwarzenegger told reporters about the threats against Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante during a news conference in his office Monday. Other elected officials of Mexican heritage have also received threats, Schwarzenegger said, but he did not name them.

Buses used in pro-immigration rally burned By TERESA BORDEN The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Published on: 04/19/06 The owner of a bus line who provided free transportation to some of the people attending a pro-immigration rally last week said today that three of his buses were burned overnight while they sat in a Doraville parking area. Carlos Ochoa, who owns Royal Bus Lines, said he was notified by employees about 7 a.m. that the 20-passenger buses he keeps in a private parking lot off Church Street had burned. "I would not want to believe that this happened because of the march," said...

DANBURY – There are no Grey Wolves. The man who claimed to be the Wolves' spokesman is, by his own admission, "an idiot." "I'm a fool," the man said Friday. "I apologize to the people of Danbury." The man, who refused to give his name to The News-Times, had disrupted plans by Christian groups to hold a rally on Danbury Green by claiming that the neo-Nazi Grey Wolves would join in to support the rally's aim – to dissolve the barriers between church and state in the United States. In fact, the man admitted, he made up the name of...

Woman Robbed By Two People Dressed As Muslims Police Said Woman Knew Attackers POSTED: 2:47 pm EDT April 7, 2006 PHILADELPHIA -- Two people who police believe were men dressed in garments often worn by Muslim women forced a woman entering a Philadelphia International Airport terminal into a car Thursday and robbed her of her jewelry. Police said the robbers also made off with than $1,000 in cash. The 22-year-old woman, whose name wasn't released, told police she was forced into the car at gunpoint at about 1:30 in the afternoon. Police say the woman told them she was pushed...

"Two Durham police officers were investigating a reported disturbance at a Duke lacrosse party just 16 minutes before the alleged victim of a gang-rape there showed up at a grocery store more than 2 miles away to call for help. But police found nothing at the scene, a police spokeswoman said." "Meanwhile, the district attorney began downplaying a link between the results of DNA tests that are expected as early as next week and any possible charges. He also said the DNA test results might not be made public when they return from the state forensics lab" "Police arrived at...

ITHACA—A contributor to Cornell University’s “premier liberal voice” has been charged with stabbing a black student on the university’s campus after using “racial epithets” toward him.According to the Cornell Daily Sun, Nathan Poffenbarger [Class of] '08, a regular contributor to the campus magazine, “Turn Left” was charged with second-degree assault, a class "D" felony, after allegedly stabbing a visiting student on West Campus during an altercation on Saturday (February 18).Police said the attack stemmed from a racial incident.“Witnesses told police Poffenbarger was yelling racial remarks at someone else, when the victim, a black male student, stepped in to stop him....

MONTREAL (CP) - Police are investigating acts of vandalism at two Islamic mosques in the Laval area, north of Montreal. Windows were broken earlier this week at the Islamic Cultural Centre and the Al-Hissane Islamic Centre in this city north of Montreal. With tensions on high around the world over cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad, Laval police believe there could be a connection. Several controversial drawings, including one depicting Muhammad wearing a bomb-shaped turban, were originally printed in a Danish newspaper in September and have since been reprinted in other European newspapers in support of freedom of speech. Police have...

MONTREAL (CP) - Police are investigating acts of vandalism at two Islamic mosques in the Laval area, north of Montreal. Windows were broken earlier this week at the Islamic Cultural Centre and the Al-Hissane Islamic Centre in this city north of Montreal. With tensions on high around the world over cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad, Laval police believe there could be a connection. Several controversial drawings, including one depicting Muhammad wearing a bomb-shaped turban, were originally printed in a Danish newspaper in September and have since been reprinted in other European newspapers in support of freedom of speech. Police have...

Muslims urge cartoons law change Muslim scholars holding emergency talks called for a change in the law to stop insulting pictures of the Prophet Muhammad being published. Officials from the Muslim Action Committee (MAC) meeting in Birmingham also called for the Press Complaints Commission code to be tightened to restrict British newspapers from following European media in printing the caricatures. A protest march from Trafalgar Square to Hyde Park on February 18 involving around 50,000 Muslims would be staged, Shaikh Faiz Saddiqi, spokesman for the MAC, said. Speaking at a press conference held at a mosque in Small Heath, Mr...

Muslims say sign left near mosque was hate crime Police note the message was found on public property, making it hard to classify By ROSANNA RUIZ Copyright 2006 Houston Chronicle Islamic leaders are outraged that a sign with anti-Muslim sentiments left near a southeast Houston mosque will not likely be pursued by authorities as a hate crime. The large plywood sign, written in black crayon, labeled Muslims as the enemy and included a bearded character representing the Prophet Muhammad. It was discovered Monday evening near the mosque in the 8800 block of Old Galveston Road. The sign had been placed...

A refugee from the Muslim Middle East thinks he has discovered Islam's 20-point plan for conquering the United States by 2020 – a plan revealed in the latest issue of Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin. [This article is no longer on site, but is posted here Author sees Islam's 20-year plan for U.S. ] Anis Shorrosh, author of ''Islam Revealed'' and ''The True Furqan,'' is a Christian Arab-American who emigrated from Arab-controlled Jerusalem in January 1967. ''The following is my analysis of Islamic invasion of America, the agenda of Islamists and visible methods to take over America by the year 2020,''...

ENFIELD - A woman accused of using racial epithets while waiting for food at a Taco Bell drive-through window was arrested Wednesday. Jennifer Farrelly, 19, of East Windsor, has been charged with ridicule on account of race, creed or color and second-degree breach of peace. Farrelly's boyfriend, Eric Satterlee, 22, of Ashford, was charged with breach of peace in the incident. On Dec. 18, Farrelly and Satterlee became frustrated by the slow service at the Taco Bell restaurant on Brookside Place, according to an arrest warrant. Farrelly banged on the drive-through window and called the Taco Bell attendant, Jamelle Byrd,...

A jury at Leeds Crown Court has cleared BNP leader Nick Griffin of two racial hatred charges and BNP activist Mark Collett of four others. The jury has been discharged after failing to reach verdicts on the remaining charges - four against Mr Collett and two against Mr Griffin. Mr Griffin, 44, and Mr Collett, 24, had denied using words intended to stir up hatred in West Yorkshire in 2004. Mr Griffin said the verdicts were a "tremendous victory for freedom". Their six speeches were filmed by an undercover BBC journalist for a documentary on the BNP. Mr Griffin told...

BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair was defeated today when parts of his government's plans to ban incitement to religious hatred were voted down in the House of Commons. Amendments put forward by the House of Lords were accepted by narrow majorities of 10 and one, although the government has a theoretical majority of 65 over the opposition parties. The legislation had attracted criticism as muzzling free speech. It would have made incitement to religious hatred punishable by a jail term of up to seven years. Junior Home Office minister Paul Goggins told the Commons: ``We are seeking to close a...

Ministers lose religious bill bid The government has suffered two shock defeats over attempts to overturn Lords changes to the controversial Racial and Religious Hatred Bill. In a blow to Tony Blair's authority, MPs voted by 288 votes to 278 to back a key Lords amendment to the bill, which targets incitement to religious hatred. The prime minister voted in the first division but not in the second, which was lost by one vote. Home Secretary Charles Clarke told MPs the bill would now become law. Mr Clarke claimed what had happened had been "a purely political act" by Tories,...

Thousands of demonstrators are expected outside Parliament as MPs vote on plans to ban incitement to religious hatred. Ministers want religious groups to have the same protection from hate crimes as racial groups. The Racial and Religious Hatred Bill has undergone substantial changes in the Lords but the government hopes to push through a compromise amendment. Critics claim the bill is drawn too widely and could stop free speech and unfairly target artists. Last year peers voted by a majority of 149 in favour of a cross-bench move to implement freedom of speech safeguards. These include making sure nobody is...

UMass teacher blasts colleagues on hoax story Episode warrants reprimand, he says By Jonathan Saltzman, Globe Staff | December 29, 2005 The head of policy studies at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth wants the university to suspend a student who made up a story about being grilled by federal antiterrorism agents over a library book and to reprimand faculty members who spread the tale. Following the student's admission Friday that it was a hoax, Clyde Barrow, chairman of the policy studies department, said UMass should punish the student and faculty members, in particular two history professors who repeated the...

A San Jose homeowner reported finding a homophobic epithet burned into his front lawn and vehicle in what is being investigated as a possible hate crime, police said Monday. SNIP The resident found the word "fag" burned into his lawn and etched on his vehicle, Muyo said. No arrests have been made

You've probably heard about the UMass student who claimed that Department of Homeland Security agents visited him after he checked out Mao's Little Red Book from the library. Well, he has now admitted that he made the story up.

<p>NEW BEDFORD -- The UMass Dartmouth student who claimed to have been visited by Homeland Security agents over his request for "The Little Red Book" by Mao Zedong has admitted to making up the entire story.</p> <p>The 22-year-old student tearfully admitted he made the story up to his history professor, Dr. Brian Glyn Williams, and his parents, after being confronted with the inconsistencies in his account.</p>

Professor blasts KU, sheriff’s investigation Mirecki says he may sue university By Sophia Maines Saturday, December 10, 2005 Kansas University professor Paul Mirecki said he’s hired an attorney and is ready to go to the mat with KU and the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office. “If I have to sue, I will,” he said. Mirecki said he’s angry because KU didn’t back him after religious conservatives attacked him for his plan to teach a course dealing with intelligent design. Mirecki became a political lightning rod after his new course was announced and his derisive comments on an Internet message board about...

KU professor Paul Mirecki reported that two men who did not appreciate his expressed views on Christianity beat him on a Kansas road. He is no longer taking phone calls or talking to the press. He has also resigned as chairman of the Religious Studies Department. [ snip ] Skeptics have begun to poke holes in Mirecki's story. [ snip ] [ snip ] Mirecki had posted a number of anti-Christian comments on the Internet. KU Chancellor Hemenway described as "repugnant and vile," Mirecki was forced to apologize and drop the course. [ snip ] Mirecki first said: two white...

Kansas University's Paul Mirecki, the controversial religious studies professor whose planned course on creationism and intelligent design was canceled after he derided Christian conservatives as "fundies," was allegedly beaten on Monday morning by two unidentified white men who he claims targeted him for his views. The Lawrence Journal World reported: Douglas County sheriff’s deputies are investigating the reported beating of a Kansas University professor who gained recent notoriety for his Internet tirades against Christian fundamentalists. Kansas University religious studies professor Paul Mirecki reported he was beaten by two men about 6:40 a.m. today on a roadside in rural Douglas County....

The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office initially labeled the attack on Professor Paul Mirecki a hate crime. But the office removed the title today, calling the labeling a mistake. Lt. Kari Wempe said that the error occurred Monday morning when the attack was reported. Officers wrongly transmitted the information over the police radio, she said. It is not classified as an aggravated battery. Capt. Schuyler Bailey of the KU Public Safety Office said the office met with Mirecki yesterday and told him to give them a call if anything happened on campus. The safety office is not involved in the investigation...

A professor whose planned course on creationism and intelligent design was canceled after he sent e-mails deriding Christian conservatives was hospitalized Monday after what appeared to be a roadside beating. University of Kansas religious studies professor Paul Mirecki said that the two men who beat him made references to the class that was to be offered for the first time this spring. Originally called "Special Topics in Religion: Intelligent Design, Creationism and other Religious Mythologies," the course was canceled last week at Mirecki's request. The class was added after the Kansas State Board of Education decided to include more criticism...

Key facts about the reported attack remained unclear Tuesday, including exactly where it happened. A report released by the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office said the location was “unknown” and listed it as south of 31st Street on either East 1400 Road or East 1500 Road. Louisiana Street turns into East 1400 Road outside the city limits. Haskell Avenue becomes East 1500 Road. Also, there was conflicting information about whether Mirecki reported it at the scene or at the hospital. In an interview Monday with the Journal-World, he said he called police from the side of the road, but sheriff’s officials...

Mirecki hospitalized after beating By Ron Knox, Eric Weslander (Contact) Originally published 05:37 p.m., December 5, 2005 Updated 06:31 p.m., December 5, 2005 Douglas County sheriff’s deputies are investigating the reported beating of a Kansas University professor who gained recent notoriety for his Internet tirades against Christian fundamentalists. Kansas University religious studies professor Paul Mirecki reported he was beaten by two men about 6:40 a.m. today on a roadside in rural Douglas County. In a series of interviews late this afternoon, Mirecki said the men who beat him were making references to the controversy that has propelled him into the...

Prosecutor Sven-Erik Alhem has demanded that Malmö district court send to prison and fine a policeman who sent a racist e-mail to the Social Democrat council leader Ilmar Reepalu. The 43 year old senior officer is on trial for persecution of a minority group after referring to "criminals called Mohammed from Rosengård" in an e-mail message to Reepalu and a female civil servant. "For me, racism is when you go from criticising individual people to sweeping judgements about everyone in the same category," said Reepalu, who delivered his witness statement by telephone. Sven-Erik Alhem said in his summing up on...

While the nation's attention was focused on the Judge John Roberts confirmation hearing, pro-homosexual forces in the U.S. House of Representatives snuck through a pro-homosexual hate crimes bill by adding it to legislation designed to protect children from sexual predators. ...Pro-family groups had no prior notice that this was happening. ...We are urging you to contact your two U.S. Senators and ask that they oppose the inclusion of any hate crime language to this legislation. Capitol Hill switchboard number is 202-224-3121... ...the new hate crimes law will add "sexual orientation," "gender," and "gender identity" to federally protected categories. "Gender Identity"...

It seems to defy logic: people committing "hate crimes" against themselves. But cases keep arising of homosexuals staging hate crimes and then portraying themselves as victims of narrow-minded bigots. Often, the cases occur while a pro-homosexual measure is under consideration, such as a "hate crimes" law or the addition of "sexual orientation" to a statute or campus policy. Homosexuals who commit faked hate crimes often admit to police that they did it either for attention or to express anger over the slowness of social "reform." In either case, the initial publicity creates the impression of an urgent need for the...

JONESBORO, Georgia (AP) -- On his first day on the job, the new sheriff called 27 employees into his office, stripped them of their badges, fired them, and had rooftop snipers stand guard as they were escorted out the door. The move Monday by Clayton County Sheriff Victor Hill provoked an angry reaction and prompted a judge to order him to rehire the employees. "It appears ... that employees of the Sheriff were terminated without cause" and in violation of the county's civil service rules, Judge Stephen Boswell wrote in granting a 30-day restraining order. Hill, 39, defended the firings...

Men surrender after baboon slur03/08/2005 22:37  - (SA)   Zinkie Sithole  Polokwane - Three men have been charged with calling a petrol attendant a baboon. One of the three men, who is aged 34, and two others, aged 23, handed themselves over to the Polokwane police on Wednesday. "They were brought in by their legal adviser.They're not in custody, but have been warned to appear in court on Friday," said Polokwane police spokesperson Lesiba Ramoshaba. Petrol attendant Isaac Sebata has accused the men of calling him a baboon last week and slapping him during an argument. "We don't know yet what led...

REDS fan Michael Shields was today jailed for 15 years after a Bulgarian court found him guilty of a crime he did not commit. The 18-year-old was convicted of a charge of attempted murder even though another man confessed to the crime. The court in Varna refused to accept Graham Sankey's state-ment that he slammed a paving stone on to waiter Martin Georgiev's head at the resort of Golden Sands in May. Today Foreign Secretary Jack Straw was ordering officials and diplomats to "make representations" both to the Sofia legal establishment and to Bulgaria's ambassador to London, Lachezar Matev. And...

Wachovia Corporation's ridiculous apology for its alleged ties to slavery has backfired.Chicago City Council aldermen are vowing to strip from Wachovia a $9.4 million loan to build affordable housing units as punishment for the bank's supposed failure to disclose that its predecessor banks were involved in slave-related business deals. This serves as a warning to other companies that believe they can buy peace with the slave reparations movement. Wachovia thought it would be good for business to cave in to the demands of reparations activists. Now, not only is the company out of a multi-million dollar contract, it has made...

The grievance industry went into overdrive last month when burned Korans were reportedly discovered at a local mosque in southwest Virginia. The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations issued an immediate press release on June 16 calling for "Americans of all faiths to obtain and read the Quran after burned copies of Islam's revealed text were found" in a shopping bag at the front door of the Islamic Center of Blacksburg. Repent, all ye infidels! Incensed CAIR officials contacted the FBI and pressured authorities to treat the incident as possibly "bias-related." CAIR-MD/VA Director of Civil Rights Shama Farooq lectured that "A...

Student Says Quran Burning Was an Accident ASSOCIATED PRESS BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) - A Muslim Virginia Tech student says he was the person who left a burned Quran at a local mosque last month, saying it had been damaged in a fire and he hoped it could be given a respectful disposal. Police initially had said the case was being investigated as an anti-Muslim hate crime. The student contacted police last week, saying he was going to be traveling abroad and didn't know what to do with the Quran, which had been burned in a 2004 house fire, police Lt....