Nationalists marched in Kaunas, a city east of Lithuania’s capitol of Vilnius, to celebrate alleged Nazi collaborators. Members of defendinghistory.com – a website dedicated to exposing extremism in Lithuania monitored the 16 February march. The Union of Nationalist Youth of Lithuania organised the march to fall on the anniversary of Lithuania’s declaration of independence in 1918. Under the banner “We Know Our Nation’s Heroes”were pictures of Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas, Jonas Noreika, Povilas Plechavičius, Kazys Škirpa, Antanas Baltūsis-Žvejas, and Juozas Ambrazevičius-Brazaitis. Individuals accused of direct complicity in the Holocaust or fighting alongside Nazi forces. The Soviet Union invaded Lithuania in 1940. And within two months had annexed the country. A year later and Lithuania had absorbed Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi tyranny in Poland. This swelled Lithuania’s Jewish population to 250,000 (10 per cent of the population). Juozas Ambrazevičius-Brazaitis formed a provisional government after Nazi Germany had expelled the Soviets. Nazi Germany had banned the preferred choice of Kazys Skirpa from returning to Lithuania. It lasted for six weeks. Some accuse it of it complicity with the invading Nazi forces. Others would argue that it attempted in vein to restore statehood. The provisional government had welcomed the Nazi vision for a ‘new Europe’. [...]
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We received this report from a Muslim female who has had problems with anti-social behaviour from young teenagers in her street. The issue continues to build even though she has reported the incident to the police and with no action to date. We will no doubt, make contact with her local force and explain the
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The Home Office has admitted it holds no record of British citizens barred from boarding transatlantic flights despite them being identified by US security officials as potential threats at UK airports. James Brokenshire, the immigration minister, confirmed that information regarding the numbers, religion and ethnicity of Britons prevented from travelling abroad was not retained by […]
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The University of Westminster Students Union has just reported that CCTV cameras have been installed in prayer rooms in Westminster University. The Director of Faith Matters, Fiyaz Mughal, made the following comment to the Quintin Hogg, the online news-site for the Students Union. “This is very concerning and utterly ludicrous, students who want to reflect […]
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“Bet you don’t have other people reporting to you,” is the usual Twitter commentary that some people say, who do not know about our values. Or the alternative is, “What about Christians and Christianophobia? What do you do about that, bet you don’t do anything?” We just highlighted a brief response to a piece in
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We have made a point of not crossing over from anti-Muslim hate incidents and crimes into issues of counter-terrorism, though increasingly, members of the British Muslim community have been reporting incidents of stops at airports and ports of exit to us. Furthermore, there are cross-over points between what some British Muslims are feeling and their
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We have made a point of not crossing over from anti-Muslim hate incidents and crimes into issues of counter-terrorism, though increasingly, members of the British Muslim community have been reporting incidents of stops at airports and ports of exit to us. Furthermore, there are cross-over points between what some British Muslims are feeling and their
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We have made a point of not crossing over from anti-Muslim hate incidents and crimes into issues of counter-terrorism, though increasingly, members of the British Muslim community have been reporting incidents of stops at airports and ports of exit to us. Furthermore, there are cross-over points between what some British Muslims are feeling and their
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We have made a point of not crossing over from anti-Muslim hate incidents and crimes into issues of counter-terrorism, though increasingly, members of the British Muslim community have been reporting incidents of stops at airports and ports of exit to us. Furthermore, there are cross-over points between what some British Muslims are feeling and their
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Over the last few months, we have received a number of cases involving schools and where Muslim young people have been interviewed on the back of alleged comments that they have made within the school environment. A growing number of parents have reported into us that their children have been questioned on the back of
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