Counterjihad Timeline

A chronology of the Counterjihad movement.
==2004==
===October===
*9 - Inaugural post on the Gates of Vienna blog by Baron Bodissey.Baron Bodissey, The Newest Phase of a Very Old War, Gates of Vienna, 9 October 2004.
==2005==
===June===
*Stop Islamiseringen af Danmark founded according to Anders Gravers.UK and Scandinavia Counterjihad Summit, Stop Islamiseringen af Danmark, 15 April 2007,accessed via the Internet Archive 17 August 2011.
==2006==
===January===
*David Yerushalmi founds the Society of Americans for National Existence.Andrea Elliott, The Man Behind the Anti-Shariah Movement, New York Times, 30 July 2011. 
===May===
*7 - Ted Ekeroth receives one of the 2006 Herzl Awards from the World Zionist Organisation.Herzl Award Recipients 2006, World Zionist Organisation, 7 May 2006.
===September===
|200px|thumb|left|910 Group logo, Screengrab from [http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.co.uk/ Gates of Vienna] 
*Center for Vigilant Freedom and the 910 Group founded.CVF News, Center for Vigilant Freedom, via the Internet Archive, accessed 17 August 2011.
*4 - Gates of Vienna post said to have inspired the formation of the 910 GroupBaron Bodissey, The Emperor is Naked, Gates of Vienna, 4 September 2006. 
*13 - Lee Kaplan article in FrontPageMag on the pro-Palestinian International Solidarity Movement based on the activities of infiltrator Paul Renato, later revealed to be identical with Paul Ray.Lee Kaplan, The ISM-Terror Connection, FrontPageMagazine.com, 13 September 2006.ISM Responds to Internet Photos, Reaffirms Commitment to Non-violence, International Solidarity Movement, 16 September 2006.Part 1 - "The International Solidarity Movement unmasked", Lionheart, 24 February 2007.
*26 - 910 Group founded on this date according to Ned May.Baron Bodissey, Slouching Towards London, Gates of Vienna, 2 October 2011.
*28 - Pajamas Media event at the National Press Club in Washington. Edward S. May is among those attending.Baron Bodissey, Name-Dropping from the National Press Club, Gates of Vienna, 28 September 2006.
===October===
*5 - Formation of the 910 Group on Yahoo reported by Baron Bodissey at Gates of Vienna
===November===
*24 - US Conservatives Jack Wheeler and Steve Baldwin call for "The Creation of an Anti-Islamofascism Movement".Jack Wheeler and Steve Baldwin, THE CREATION OF AN ANTI-ISLAMOFASCISM MOVEMENT, To The Point News, 24 November 2006.
*27 - Members of the 910 Group meet in Northern Virginia with conservatives Jack Wheeler and Steve Baldwin of the Council for National Policy to discuss plans for an "infrastructure to combat Islamofascism" modelled on cold war anti-communism.Baron Bodissey, The Coalition to Preserve Civilization, Gates of Vienna, 30 November 2006.
===December===
*11 - The US neoconservative group Middle East Forum appointed Paul Belien as director of Islamist Watch.Paul Belien Appointed Director of Islamist Watch, Middle East Forum, 11 December 2006.
*12 - The website of the Center for Vigilant Freedom (which now redirects to the rebranded International Civil Liberties Alliance) was registered on this date by Christine Brim., from Domain Tool, 4 June 2009
==2007==
===January===
*9 - Pamela Geller interviewed Paul Ray on BlogTalk Radio.Atlas and LIONHEART, blogtalkradio, 9 January 2007.
===February===
*20 - Christian Action Network held a protest at the Charlotte County courthouse in Virginia against a road named after Sheikh Gilani of Muslims of America. Baron Bodissey and Christine Brim of the 910 Group attended.Baron Bodissey, “Gilani Lane Is Insane!”, Gates of Vienna, 20 February 2007.
===March===
|200px|thumb|left|Daniel Pipes receiving the Danish Free Press Society's award, 2007. Source: [http://www.algemeiner.com/2013/03/06/profiting-from-errors/ Algemeiner] 
*According to the Center for Vigilant Freedom, CVF chapters "began to meet locally and organize public education campaigns in several nations and U.S. states" by this month.CVF News, Center for Vigilant Freedom, via the Internet Archive, accessed 17 August 2011.
*1 - The Center for Vigilant Freedom was set up as a non-stock incorporated company, Center for Vigilant Freedom Incorporated, on this date under Corporation ID number 0670082-7. The registration agent for the company was Christine Brim. Clerk's Information System, Virginia State Corporation Commission, accessed 14 December 2008.
*2 - Southside Messenger editorial responds to Christine Brim and the 910 Group over Christian Action Network campaign against Sheikh Gilani Lane in Virginia."If They Aren't Guilty,Why Are They Hiding Down There?", Southside Messenger, 2 March 2007.
*10 - Daniel Pipes received the Danish Free Press Society's 2007 Free Press Award.Baron Bodissey, Daniel Pipes at the Copenhagen Workers’ Museum, Gates of Vienna, 12 March 2007.
*31 - Christine Brim of the Center for Vigilant Freedom speaks at the United American Committee's second "Rally Against Islamofascism Day" at Ground Zero in New York.Baron Bodissey, Vigilant Freedom at Ground Zero, Gates of Vienna, 31 March 2007.
===April===
350px|thumb|right|Counterjihad Scandinavia 2007, Source: screengrab from [http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.co.uk/2007/04/uk-and-scandinavia-counterjihad-summit.html/ Gates of Vienna] 
*14 - UK and Scandinavia Counterjihad summit at the Workers' Museum in Copenhagen.Baron Bodissey, Report on the Counterjihad Summit, Gates of Vienna, 19 April 2007.
===June===
*16 - Pro Köln demonstration against a mosque in Cologne supported by Austrian Freedom Party and Vlaams Belang.Anna Reiman, Far-Right Mobilizes against Cologne Mega-Mosque, Der Spiegel, 19 June 2007.
===July===
*8 - Aeneas Lavinium leaves a comment on Paul Ray's blog inviting him to join the Center for Vigilant Freedom/910 Group network.Online Radio interview, Lionheart, 6 July 2007.
===September===
*11 - SIOE demonstration in Brussels.Police arrest 2 far-right Belgian leaders at anti-Islam 9/11 protest, Associated Press, 11 September 2007, accessed via the Internet Archive on 17 August 2011.
===October===
|200px|thumb|right| Counterjihad Brussels 2007. screengrab from [http://gatesofvienna.net/2012/07/slouching-towards-brussels-redux/ Gates of Vienna] 
*18 - First Day of the Counterjihad Brussels ConferenceCounterJihad Brussels 2007 Conference, accessed 17 August 2011.
*19 - Second Day of the Counterjihad Brussels ConferenceCounterJihad Brussels 2007 Conference, accessed 17 August 2011.
===November===
*22 - Christine Brim of the Center for Vigilant Freedom writes of European far right parties: "If such parties specifically state pro-Israel positions, and take real actions opposing anti-semitism and disavowing previous positions - and reach out to Jewish constituents and encourage Jewish participation in party positions - these are real actions to observe, and to approve."Haaretz: Jews for Le Pen, Centre for Vigilant Freedom, 22 November 2007, via the Internet Archive.
*30 - Christopher Knowles and Dominique Devaux speak on behalf of the Center for Vigilant Freedom at a conference in Bologna.CENTRE FOR VIGILANT FREEDOM/VIGILANT FREEDOM EUROPA PRESENTAZIONE, lisistrata.com, 30 November 2007.
==2008==
===January===
|200px|thumb|left|Filip Dewinter of the far right Vlaams Belang Flemish political party. [https://flic.kr/p/gmZGCd Source]. CCSA
*9 - Phyllis Chesler interviews Paul Ray for Pajamas Media.A Profile in Courage: An Interview with "Lionheart," The British Blogger in Hiding, by Phyllis Chesler, Chesler Chronicles, Pajamas Media, 9 January 2008.
*17 - Cities against Islamisation launched by Filip Dewinter of the Vlaams Belang party at a conference in Antwerp.Conference 'Cities against Islamization', Cities against Islamisation, 18 January 2008.
===March===
*13-14 Identity Crisis: Can European civilization survive? conference hosted in Rome by the European Freedom Alliance, the European University of Rome and the Lepanto Foundation. Moderators include Bruce Bawer; panelists include Bat Ye'or, Baroness Caroline Cox, Douglas Murray and Robert Spencer.
===May===
*10 - Counterjihad Vienna ConferenceDymphna, Counterjihad Vienna 2008, Gates of Vienna, 12 May 2008.
===June===
*15-16 - "How Free is the University" conference in California organised by American Freedom Alliance.Program - How Free is the University - an International Conference, American Freedom Alliance, accessed, 17 August 2011.
===October===
*11 - Vigilant Freedom Britannia Meeting – ‘Making Britain Safe for Apostasy’ was due to take place in Central London with Aeneas Lavinium of the Center for Vigilant Freedom as the contact.SHARIA LAW IN BRITAIN...IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN, http://acaciafreedomfighters.blogspot.com, 27 September 2008.
===November===
*14 - Andrew Bostom interviewed by Alan Johnson for Democratiya.Interview with Andrew G. Bostom/Islam and Anti-Semitism, by Alan Johnson, Democratiya, Winter 2008. Accessed via the internet Archive, 17 August 2011.
===December===
*14 - Arieh Eldad and Ariel Center for Policy Research host Geert Wilders at Facing Jihad conference in Jerusalem.Schedule, Facing Jihad: A Lawmakers' Summit, accessed via the Internet Archive, 17 August 2011.
==2009==
===January===
*1 - International Free Press Society founded.Policy Statement, International Free Press Society, 1 January 2009, accessed via the Internet Archive, 17 August 2011.
===February===
*Christian Action Network produced a documentary, Homegrown Jihad: the terrorist camps around the US, which purported to uncover a network of 30-plus terrorist training compounds.NEVER-BEFORE-REVEALED TERRORIST TRAINING VIDEO EXPOSES 35 COMPOUNDS ON AMERICAN SOIL, Christian Action Network, 28 January 2009. CBS News called it 'sensationalist'.
*27 - the International Free Press Society sponsored an event for Geert Wilders at the National Press Club in Washington DC.Daniel Luban and Eli Clifton, POLITICS: Dutch Foe of Islam Ignores US Allies' Far Right Ties, Inter Press Service, 28 February 2009.
*28- Wilders also holds an event at a Boston-area synagogue, sponsored by the Republican Jewish Coalition, an influential group whose board members include casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer, and neoconservative writer David Frum, who attended Wilders’s above event in Washington.
===March===
*10 - Muslim extremists demonstrate at the homecoming of the Royal Anglian Regiment in Luton.Gerry Gable, Simon Cressy and Tom Woodson, A hot August?, Searchlight, August 2009.
===April===
*13 - An illegal protest against Muslim 'hate preachers' takes place in Luton.Sally Anne Johnson, Luton Today, 14 April 2009. 
*26 - The Florida Security Council Free Speech Summit takes place in South Florida. The event includes a question and answer session with Geert Wilders and a screening of his film Fitna.Events, Florida Security Council, accessed 14 September 2009.
===May===
*16 - Opening day of Counterjihad Copenhagen 2009 conference.Baron Bodissey, Slouching Towards Copenhagen, 23 May 2009.
*17 - Second day of Counterjihad Copenhagen 2009 conference.Baron Bodissey, Slouching towards Copenhagen, 23 May 2009.
*29-30 - Geert Wilders due to speak by video at the New English Review symposium on Understanding the Jihad in Israel, Europe and America, at the Loews Vanderbilt Plaza Hotel in Nashville.New English Review Symposium, New English Review, accessed 15 May 2009. The event was cancelled by Loews managing director Thomas Negri 'for the health, safety and well-being of our guests and employees'.Muslim group shuts down Conservative conference, Newsmax.com, 28 May 2009.
===July===
*According to the Sunday Times, Ann Marchini organises a key meeting between English Defence League members and counterjihad activists around this time.Dipesh Gadher and Robin Henry, Unmasked: wealthy backers behind far-right league, Sunday Times, 11 December 2011, archived at Hope Not Hate.
*9-10 - Counterjihad groups International Civil Liberties Alliance and Mission Europa represented at OSCE Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting on Freedom of Religion or Belief in Vienna.Final List of Participants, Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting on Freedom of Religion or Belief, OSCE, accessed 17 August 2011.
===August===
*Circa 17 - Martin Mawyer and Jason Campbell of the Christian Action Network interview three members of the English Defence League for a documentary..Robert Spencer, Libelblogger Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs digs deeper, adding new lies to his original ones, JihadWatch, 9 September 2009.
*19 - Robert Spencer arrives in Britain to take part in Mawyer's documentary.Robert Spencer, Oh to be in England, JihadWatch, 19 August 2009.
*Circa 19 - Mawyer invited the EDL to a meeting a few days later at the George Pub in Crossharbour East London, where those present included Campbell, Spencer, Douglas Murray of the Centre for Social Cohesion, Adrian Morgan of Family Security Matters and Paul Weston. Spencer and Murray later said they had refused to have anything to do with the EDL, a claim which was backed by several of the others present.Robert Spencer, Libelblogger Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs digs deeper, adding new lies to his original ones, JihadWatch, 9 September 2009.
===September===
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*6 - Alan Lake spoke about counterjihad strategy at a seminar organised by Kent Ekeroth of the Sweden Democrats in Malmö.Seminar about islamization, speaker Alan Lake, part 1, Youtube, uploaded 10 October 2009, accessed 12 October 2009.
*12 - Guardian reports that Alan Lake is advising the English Defence League.Robert Booth, Matthew Taylor and Paul Lewis, English Defence League: chaotic alliance stirs up trouble on streets, The Guardian, 12 September 2009.
*24 - Metropolitan Police Chief Constable Sir Paul Stephenson said the EDL and Stop the Islamisation of Europe were not extreme right-wing groups and could not be barred from protesting:
::“the concern to me is how groups like that either willingly or unwillingly allow themselves to be exploited by very extreme rightwing groups like the National Front and the British Freedom Fighters”.James Boxell, Police play down threat from far right, Financial Times, 24 September 2009.
*25 - Launch of Stop Islamization of America Richard Bartholomew New Anti-Islam Group, Same Old Faces Bartholomew's Notes on Religion Posted on September 27, 2009
===October===
*3 - Bürgerbewegung Pax Europa hosted a rally in Berlin at which speakers included Robert Spencer, Renè Stadtkewitz, Michael Höhne-Pattberg, Willi Schwend and Achim Swietlik.Robert Spencer, Spencer at Human Rights Rally in Europe, Jihad Watch, 3 October 2009.
*23 - Paul Ray posted pictures of himself with German neo-Nazi Nick Greger holding up t-shirts emblazoned with a UDA logo and a picture of loyalist Johnny Adair, a friend of Greger's.Paul Ray, A United European & International Christian defence force, Lionheart, 23 October 2009.Richard Bartholomew, Paul Ray Identifies with Northern Ireland Loyalist Groups, 23 October 2009.
===November===
*14 - Scottish Defence League holds first demonstration in Glasgow.David Leask, Far-right extremists contained amid anti-war marches, Scotland on Sunday, 15 November 2009.
===December===
*13 - Stop Islamisation of Europe demonstration in Harrow, London. English Defence League youth organiser Joel Titus later cautioned for assaulting a photographer.Marc Vallée, EDL & PRESS FREEDOM, marcvallee.co.uk, 15 December 2009.Phone call to Metropolitan Police Press Bureau, 9.40pm, 18 December 2009.
==2010==
|250px|thumb|left| Counterjihad Zurich 2010, screengrab from [http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.co.uk/2010/06/slouching-towards-zurich.html/ Gates of Vienna] 
===February===
*19 - Freedom Defense Initiative sponsors "Jihad: The Political Third Rail" panel at the Conservative Political Action Conference.Eli Clifton, CPAC’s Third Rail, Lobelog, 19 February 2010.
===April===
*17 - Rally for Geert Wilders in Berlin. Aeneas Lavinium speaks as part of a British delegation.Britons In Berlin At Rally For Geert Wilders, International Civil Liberties Alliance, 2 May 2010.
===May===
*4 - American Freedom Defense Initiative incorporated.
===June===
*6 - No Mosque at Ground Zero rally in New York sponsored by Stop the Islamization of AmericaSIOA “NO MOSQUE AT GROUND ZERO” JUNE 6 RALLY (VIDEOS AND PICTURES), No Mosques at Ground Zero, 7 June 2010.
*12 - Counterjihad Zurich 2010 conference.Baron Bodissey, Slouching Towards Zurich, Gates of Vienna, 16 June 2010.
*29 - English Defence League posts first press release from the "EDL Jewish Division."Morrigan Emmaleth and Cassandra Victoria, EDL Jewish Division Issues First Press Release, EDL, 29 June 2010
==2011==
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===February===
*5 - Austrian counterjihad activist Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff addressed an English Defence League (EDL) demonstration in Luton, UK, and expressed support for EDL.Video and photos of Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff addressing the English Defence League demonstration, 5 February 2011, accessed 8 February 2011. 
===July===
*25 - English Defence League leader Stephen Yaxley-Lennon convicted of 'using threatening, abusive or insulting behaviour'. EDL founder Stephen Lennon guilty over football brawl, BBC News, 25 July 2011.
===August===
*5 - Counterjihad blogger Peder Jensen announces he is abandoning his "Fjordman" pseudonym after being cited by extremist Anders Breivik, who killed dozens of people in Norway.Morten Hopperstad, Marianne Vikås, Rolf J. Widerøe, Dennis Ravndal, Hans Henrik Torgersen, Jarle Brenna and Gordon Andersen Breivik's political idol «Fjordman» emerges from anonymity, VG, 5 August 2011.200px|thumb|right| Counterjihad London Conference 2011, screengrab [http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/slouching-towards-london.html Gates of Vienna] 
===September===
*24-25 - Counterjihad London 2011 conference.Dymphna, Counterjihad London 2011, Gates of Vienna, 25 September 2011.KGS, EDL’S TOMMY ROBINSON TELLS OF HIS PERSECUTION BY THE BRITISH STATE…….., Tundra Tabloids, 29 September 2011.
==2012==
|200px|thumb|left| Dispatch International front page, screengrab from [http://www.loonwatch.com/2012/09/dispatch-international-counterjihad-publishes-a-paper/ Loonwatch] 
===July===
* 9 - Brussels Counterjihad Conference 2012 at the European Parliament - includes the launch of the so-called Brussels Process and issuing of the related Brussels DeclarationSlouching Towards Brusells Redux, Gates of Vienna, 15 July 2012. It was billed as an 'International conference for free speech & human rights' and sponsored by the International Civil Liberties Alliance.Brussels 2012 Agenda], International Civil Liberties Alliance, 9 July 2012
* Dispatch International was launched at or shortly after the conference.
===August===
*4 - Worldwide Counterjihad Alliance due to launch in Stockholm.Stop Islamization of Nations, Worldwide Counter-Jihad Alliance to Launch with Stockholm Demonstration on August 4012, sacbee.com, 12 June 2012.
==2013==
===June===
|250px|thumb|right| March for Fuselier Lee Rigby, Source:[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lee_Rigby_Manchester_tribute.jpg/ Wikimedia] 
*29 June - EDL leaders Tommy Robinson and Kevin Carroll were arrested in East London after they defied a police order confining an EDL Armed Forces Day demonstration to an area between Hyde Park Corner and Westminster in central London. The two men planned to pass East London Mosque on their walk from Hyde Park to Woolwich to lay flowers at the place where soldier Lee Rigby was killed.
===September===
*Counterjihad Warsaw 2013 - scheduled to coincide with another conference, the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Human Dimension Implementation Meeting.[1]Slouching Towards Warsaw, Gates of Vienna, 6 October 2013
===October===
*Tommy Robinson quit the EDL, announcing this at a press conference organised by the 'counter-extremist' think tank Quilliam Foundation who say that they 'facilitated' his departure. Robinson claimed in an interview with the Guardian that he was 'sorry' for creating fear among Muslims in the UK and an 'us and them' culture of violence. Shiv Malik, Ex-EDL leader Tommy Robinson says sorry for causing fear to Muslims , The Guardian, 11 October 2013 
==2014==
|300px|thumb|left| PEGIDA Dresden rally, 2014, [https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Wikimedia]
===April===
*24 - Sharia Watch UK launched in the House of Lords, hosted by Baroness Cox.Sharia Watch UK and the Metamorphosis of Anne Marie Waters, Institute of Race Relations, 21 January 2015 Founder Anne Marie Waters later announces she is running as a UKIP candidate.
===September===
*EDL protest in Rotherham, England over revelations of child sex exploitation in the town, with around 1000 attending. Protestors attack police.
===October===
*20 - the first Patriotic Europeans Against Islamisation of the West ('PEGIDA') protest in Dresden, Germany, draws only a handful of people.
===November===
*27 - Former EDL leader Tommy Robinson speaks at the Oxford Union.
===December===
*22 - around 17,000 people attend PEGIDA's 10th demonstration in Dresden, alarming the mainstream.Lizzie Dearden, Germany anti-Islam protests: 17,000 march on Dresden against 'Islamification of the West', The Independent, 23 December 2014, accessed 5 Jan 2015
==2015==
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===January===
*9 - Fifty English Defence League supporters jailed for more than a combined 75 years, for violence at a protest in Birmingham, England in July 2013
*12 - PEGIDA protest in Dresden attracts record 25,000 following Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris.PEGIDA leader Kathrin Oertel resigns one week after founder quits, CBC, 28 January 2015
===February===
* 8 - Around 600 EDL protestors in Dudley, England marched against a planned construction of a mosque in the West Midlands. Thirty arrested, 25 later released.
*10 ‘Defeat Jihad Summit’ Challenges Islamic Supremacism – And The Obama ‘Strategy’and A.U.M.F. That Disregard It, Center for Security Policy, 10 February 2015, accessed 18 December 2015 - Defeat Jihad Summit 2015 conference in Washington, hosted by Frank Gaffney of the Center for Security Policy to coincide with President Obama’s summit on violent extremism. Miranda Blue, [Cruz and Jindal join far-right activists at Frank Gaffney 'Defeat Jihad' Forum], 18 February 2015, accessed 25 February 2015 US participants and speakers include 'a who’s who of far-right activists' and prominent Republican politicians such as Sen. Ted Cruz and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal. Other guests included Geert Wilders, Lars Hedegaard, head of the International Free Press Society, Newt Gingrich, Michael Mukasey and former leader UK Independence Party (UKIP) Malcolm Pearson, Lord of Rannoch.‘Defeat Jihad Summit’ to feature a parade of Islamophobes, Imagine2050, 7 Feb, 2015, accessed 25 February 2015 
*28 - Pegida UK holds its first rally in Newcastle, but its 375-400 supporters are vastly outnumbered by 3000 counter-protestors organised by the Newcastle Unites group. Banners at the protest featured far-right insignia including that of the National Front party. Jon Stone UK Pegida rally met with thousands at counter-protests in Newcastle, The Independent, 28 February 2015 
===March===
*4 - An attempted rally by Pegida Scotland flops, with a handful of protestors again outflanked by over 200 anti-fascists
*23 - prospective UK Conservative Party parliamentary candidate Afzal Amin steps down after former EDL leader Tommy Robinson reveals that Amin had been in talks with him to arrange a phony EDL protest march against a proposed mosque in Dudley. Cahal Milmo, Afzal Amin: EDL leader claims shadowy millionaire backed Tory Dudley candidate's plot, The Independent, 23 March 2015 
===May===
*3 - Two gunmen attack American Freedom Defense Initiative 'Draw Muhammad cartoons' event in Garland, Texas. Anti-Muslim Dutch politician Geert Wilders had already left the building, although activists Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer were still inside. Both attackers were killed by security guards.Why the shootings happened in a small city in Texas, BBC Newsbeat, 5 May 2015.
===July===
*1 - Sharia Watch UK founder and former UKIP candidate Anne Marie Waters announces that she will host an exhibition of cartoons of the prophet Mohammed in London in September, with Dutch politician Geert Wilders as an invited guest.Ewan Palmer, Prophet Mohammed cartoon exhibition with Geert Wilders planned for central London, IBTimes, 2 July 2015
*1 - Baroness Caroline Cox, who originally hosted its launch in 2014 makes a statement on her 'position' regarding Sharia Watch: 'I now have no continuing connection or involvement with Sharia Watch'. Equal and Free website, accessed October 2015 
===August===
*Anne Marie Waters cancels the Mohammed cartoon drawing exhibition, citing security concerns including that 'people could be killed'.Jess Denham, London 'Draw Mohamed' exhibition cancelled due to 'real possibility people could be killed', The Independent, 20 August
===September===
*8-9 ACT! for America National Conference and Legislative Briefing in Washington. Keynote speakers include Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Brigitte Gabriel, Bill Whittle, Ryan Mauro, Deborah Weiss, Ann Corcoran, Captain Charles T. “Chuck” Nash USN (RET), Lieutenant General Thomas McInerney USAF (RET)
===October===
*20 - Two years after he quit the English Defence League and 'apologised' for his anti-Muslim violence and rhetoric, Tommy Robinson speaks at rallies of PEGIDA protestors in the Netherlands and Germany to mark the first anniversary of PEGIDA, telling anti-Islam protesters that refugees are 'invading Europe'. Lizzie Dearden, Tommy Robinson tells German anti-Islam protesters refugees are 'invading Europe' as Pegida marks anniversary Independent, 20 October 2015 
===December===
* Tommy Robinson announces he will take over as leader of Pegida UK, to be re-launched in the New Year.
*London sees a tripling of anti-Muslim attacks following Paris terror attacks
*US Republican candidate Donald Trump calls for a temporary ban on all immigration of Muslims into the USA following the San Bernardino shootings on 2 December. He cites a discredited public opinion poll by Frank Gaffney's Center for Security Policy as evidence for his policy call.
*New York Times reports that "kill Muslims" is the top Google search in California using the word "Muslims" after the San Bernadino shootings
*29: German Green Party MP Volker Beck starts legal proceedings against Pegida and several of its supporters for 18 threats to his life, accusing Pegida of encouraging a ‘spiral of hate’. The Local, 29 December 2016 
==2016==
===January===
*4: Launch of Pegida UK. Paul Weston (British Freedom Party and Liberty GB) is appointed as its new leader and Anne Marie Waters (UKIP and Sharia Watch) its chairperson. Ex-EDL leader Stephen Yaxley-Lennon aka Tommy Robinson is also closely involved. Paul Vale, '- Tommy Robinson To Launch Pegida UK, A British Chapter Of The German Anti-Muslim Movement', The Huffington Post, 04 December 2015. Accessed 13 September 2016. 
*6: Britain First leader Paul Golding found guilty of harassing a Muslim woman in Essex. He is fined £325 for harassment and £100 for wearing a political uniform, and is given a two-year restraining order. Sam Balls, Britain First leader Paul Golding found guilty of harassment and wearing a political uniform, Essex Chronicle, 6 January 2016 
*9: Right-wing groups, headed by Pegida, gathered after reports emerged of a wave of sexual assaults on women on New Year's Eve in Cologne. Clashes with police and arrests ensued. ''Cologne attacks: Pegida and police clash at migrant protest'' - BBC News, 09 January 2016. Accessed 12 September 2016. 
*18: Geert Wilders posts a Youtube video demanding all male refugees from Islamic countries be locked up in in detention centers in order to protect Dutch women from Cologne-style assaults . A 1000-strong anti-refugee protest is broken up by police in Central Heesch, Netherlands, where a centre for 500 refugees was opened. Anti-refugee riots erupt in second Dutch village,Dutch News, 19 January 2016. Accessed September 8 2016. 
 
*27: West Yorkshire Police write letter to Britain First members barring them from carrying their 'No More Mosques' banners at an upcoming Dewsbury protest, classifying it as a religiously aggravated public order offence and warning anyone doing so would be arrested. Britain First said it would ignore the restriction. The group claims it has widespread support, pointing to the 1.2 million likes on its Facebook page. Paul Wright, '- Britain First: Islamophobic activists barred from carrying 'No More Mosques' banners at Dewsbury protest' International Business Times, January 27, 2016. Accessed September 13, 2016. 
*28: The British Home Office responded to a 12,000-signature petition calling for Britain First to be banned with a statement condemning those who 'seek to spread hate by demonising British Muslims', but would not confirm if the group was under review. Paul Wright, '- Britain First's Holy War: Home Office condemns 'anti-Muslim propaganda' as petition calls for group to be banned' International Business Times, January 29, 2016. Accessed September 13, 2016. 
*30: Leader of AfD Frauke Petry sparks international outrage by stating in an interview that German border police should shoot at refugees entering the country illegally 'as a last resort'. Charlotte Beale, '- 'German police should shoot refugees, says leader of AfD party Frauke Petry' The Independent, 31 January 2016. Accessed 13 September 2016. 
===February===
*7: Pegida UK held a 'silent march' in Birmingham. Paul Wright, '- Pegida UK: Hundreds attend Birmingham Central Mosque in opposition to Tommy Robinson's anti-Islam march', International Business Times, February 5 2016. Accessed 13 September 2016. 
=== March ===
*1: Britain First’s ‘Christian intervention’, led by deputy leader Jayda Franken attracted just 10 supporters as it staged a picket outside the Whitechapel mosque in East London. Far-right Britain First stages cringe-worthy picket outside East London Mosque, RT News, 02 March 2016. Accessed 12 September 2016. 
*12: A group of far-right activists reportedly admitted impersonating police officers in a series of robberies and attacks against refugees in Calais. Police arrest far-right activists from Generation Identitaire trying to block bridges with burning tyres to stop refugees entering Calais. Dearden, Lizzie 'Far-right activists 'impersonated police to attack refugees for money and mobile phones' in Calais, The Independent, 12 March 2016. Accessed 09 September 2016. 
*22: Three coordinated suicide bombings occurred in Belgium: two at Brussels Airport in Zaventem, and one at Maalbeek metro station in central Brussels. Thirty-two civilians and three perpetrators were killed, and more than 300 people were injured. entry: 2016 Brussels bombing - 2016 Brussels bombing Wikipedia, accessed 13 September 2016. 
===April===
*9: Hundreds of members of Czech extreme-right groups, joined by German activists from Pegida, form a symbolic blockade of the Czech-German and Czech-Austrian crossings . At a rally in Prague, Adam Bartos, chair of New Democracy, says that threatening politicians responsible for the migration crisis with a 'bullet' would be too merciful as traitors should be jailed and forced to work. '- Hundreds of radicals protest against Prague's migration policy', Prague Daily Monitor, 11 April, 2016. Accessed 09 September 2016. 
*19: Pegida founder Lutz Bachmann was charged with inciting hatred through Facebook posts allegedly branding refugees ‘cattle’ and 'scum'. The court said Bachmann’s comments, which date back to September 2014, constituted an 'attack on the dignity' of refugees. '- Head of German anti-Islam group on trial for hate speech', The Guardian, 19 April 2016. Accessed 13 September 2016. 
=== May===
*7: An anti-Islam rally organised by Jenna Louca from the Casual Infidels draws just 24 protesters in Burton, Staffordshire. 'Just 24 marchers turn up to anti-Islamic protest' Burton Mail, 08 May 2016. Accessed 8 September 2016. 
*21: Britain First's Paul Golding arrested for breach of his bail after setting up a leafleting stand in Leicester city centre with 20 BF activists. Their protest was outnumbered five-fold by an anti-fascist counter-protest. '‘Racists not welcome here!’ Britain First Brexit campaigners run out of Leicester', RT News, 22 May, 2016. Accessed 08 September 2016. 
*24: Austrian police reveal the gunman who fired more than 40 shots into a concert in Vorarlberg, killing three people and injuring 11 more before killing himself, was a member of the neo-Nazi Blood & Honour group. 'Swiss injured by neo- Nazi gunman in Austria', The Local, 24 May 2016, Accessed 08 September 2016. 
*28: Fewer than 30 South East Alliance of National Front supporters marched in Dover on Saturday, while Sunday turned into a no-show. 'Latest far-right protest in Dover another fascist flop', Morning Star, 30 May 2016. Accessed 8 September 2016. 
*A far-right rally organized by the French anti-immigration Generation Identitaire movement was held in Paris with hundreds of young people protesting against 'islamisation.' 'Far-right anti-migrant rally sweeps Paris (VIDEO, PHOTOS)', RT News, 28 May 2016. Accessed 14 September 2016. 
===June===
*5: Numerous far-right activists from the National Front, BNP and EDL, are active in Brexit campaigning across the UK, including Andrew Edge, a prominent member of the far right English Defence League, who was jailed after an EDL protest for 21 months in 2014. Simon Walters, Glen Owen, Paul Cahalan 'The neo-Nazi with a swastika on her breast... and Vote Leave badge on her vest: From Holocaust deniers to EDL fascists posing at the Kray twins' grave, the violent thugs and racists hijacking the Brexit campaign' Mail on Sunday, 5 June 2016, Accessed 08 September 2016. 
*7: Germany’s far-right AfD splits over anti-semitic remarks expressed by Wolfgang Gedeon, a regional law-maker. 13 members of the party — including the regional president Jörg Meuthen— quit and formed a new alliance called Alternative for Baden-Württemberg. Cynthia Kroet, 'Germany’s far-right AfD split over anti-Semitism' Politico, 07 June 2016. Accessed 12 September 2016. 
*16: Labour MP Jo Cox died after being shot and stabbed multiple times following a constituency meeting. Tommy Mair has been identified as the murderer. He was a supporter of the Springbok Club, an organisation that has in the past defended the white supremacist regime in apartheid-era South. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a group that monitors hate crimes and racist activities in the US, Mair was also a supporter of the National Alliance (NA), a once-prominent neo-Nazi organisation in the United States. Chris York, '- Who Is Tommy Mair? Man Arrested Over Jo Cox Murder Linked To Far-Right Groups', The Huffington Post, 17 June 2016. Accessed 13 September 2016. 
*17: Christine Tasin spoke at a rally organized by a monarchist party, the Souveraineté Liberté Et Identité (SIEL), in honour of the two policemen who had been murdered in Magnanville. 
In her speech, she asked that her followers take up their 'swiss knifes and teargas' to defend themselves against 'Muslim proselytes'. She ended by saying 'I invite you to go home chanting "Murderous Islam"! '. I. Emmanuel 'L’islamophobie décomplexée de Christine Tassin sous le slogan « ISLAM ASSASSIN ! »', Mediapart, 22 June 2016. Accessed 16 September 2016. 
*20: Tommy Robinson, ex-EDL leader and leader of PEGIDA UK since 2016, under the name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, escaped a football banning order during Euro 2016, celebrates with 'F**k Isis' England flag in France. Police arrived at his home when he was already in France. Paul Wright, Tommy Robinson: Ex-EDL leader escapes Euro 2016 ban, celebrates with 'F**k Isis' England flag in France, International Business Times, June 20, 2016. Accessed 08 September 2016. 
*21: Vote Leave campaigners refuse to answer questions about a £600,000 donation to the Leave campaign from Gladys Bramall, the third-largest individual donor to the campaign and a former member of the BNP. Jim Waterson, 'Vote Leave avoids handing back £600,000 donation rrom Ex-BNP Member', Buzzfeed, 21 June 2016. Accessed 08 September 2016. 
*22: Far-right activist Joshua Bonehill-Paine, is charged with a racially or religiously aggravated offences of harassment (non-violent) towards ][Luciana Berger]] MP between October 2014 and January 2015 Charlotte Oliver, '- Extremist Joshua Bonehill-Paine charged with harassing Luciana Berger', The Jewish Chronicle, 22 June 2016. Accessed 13 September 2016. 
===July=== 
*7: The head of Pegida Germany, Lutz Bachmann founds a political party called the Popular Party for Freedom and Direct Democracy (FDDV). They intend to work with the far-right AfD in the 2017 elections. Hortense Goulard, '- Germany’s anti-Islam Pegida movement launches political party' Politico, 07 July 2016. Accessed 12 September 2016 
* Marine Le Pen of the French Front National promises to organise a 'Frexit' if ever elected in 2017. - Pour Marine Le Pen, c’est oui au « Frexit » et à Donald Trump, Le Monde, 07 July 2016. Accessed 12 September 2016. 
*14: A 19 tonne cargo truck was deliberately driven into crowds celebrating Bastille Day on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, France, resulting in the death of 86 people and injuring 434 entry: 2016 Nice attack - 2016 Nice attack Wikipedia. Accessed 13 September 2016. 
*19: IPSO receives over 1,400 complaints after former Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie made remarks in The Sun criticising Muslim newscaster, Fatima Manji for wearing a hijab while reporting the Nice attack. 'Kelvin MacKenzie's hijab remarks in Sun spark 1,400 complaints', BBC News, 20 July 2016. Accessed 08 September 2016. 
===August===
*5: Think-tank Policy Exchange publishes a paper calling for the introduction of a population register. Author David Goodhart says everyone having a ‘unique person number’ would allay fears that the country is turning into an ‘economic transit camp’. Rowena Mason, '- UK should monitor population with 'unique person numbers' – think tank', The Guardian, 08 August 2016. Last Accessed 08 September 2016. 
 
* UKIP leadership candidate, Lisa Duffy, calls for a ban on the veil in public buildings, shopping centres and on public transport. - Ukip's Lisa Duffy defends call for ban on Muslim veils in public places', This is Local London, 08 August 2016. Last Accessed 08 September 2016. 
*11: Britain First is banned from Luton and all mosques in England and Wales following a High Court case brought by Bedfordshire police. The officers accuse anti-Islam party of creating 'community tensions' by their activism. Paul Wright, '- Britain First banned from Luton and all mosques in England and Wales after police High Court victory', International Business Times, August 16, 2016. Last Accessed 08 September 2016. 
*15: Adam Walker, leader of the British National Party, is arrested on allegations of electoral fraud in local elections in Pendle in May - BNP Leader Arrested For ‘Electoral Fraud’ Morning Star, 15 August 2016. Last Accessed 08 September 2016. 
*21: Islam and Western Civilisation: Can they Coexist? Conference organised by the American Freedom Alliance. Participants included Philippe Karsenty, Andrew Bostom, John Bolton, Nonie Darwish, Frank Gaffney, Daniel Greenfield, Morton Klein, Guy Milliere, Robert Spencer and Wafa Sultan. Islam and Western Civilisation: Can they Coexist?, 2016 Events, American Freedom Alliance, accessed 26 September 2016. 
===September===
====Germany====
*4: In regional elections, the German anti-Muslim AfD received about 21 per cent of votes in the eastern Mecklenburg-Vorpommern region, beating Merkel's party, the CDU, who came third with 19 per cent of votes, in her own home region. 'Germany: AfD beats Angela Merkel's party in state vote', Al Jazeera, 04 September 2016. Accessed 15 September 2016. 
*12: AfD co-chairwoman Frauke Petry calls for a racially charged term,"voelkisch", to be rehabilitated. The term refers to people who belong to a particular race and was frequently used by the Nazis during the Third Reich. Frank Jordans, 'German nationalist leader seeks renewed use of Nazi-era term', The Hour, 12 September 2016. Accessed 14 September 2016. 
*21: AfD chair Georg Pazderski admits that Kay Nerstheimer, newly-elected AfD parliamentarian for Berlin’s eastern Lichtenberg district, was a member of the extremist right-wing, anti-Islam group German Defence League. Nerstheimer allegedly ended his activities with GDL after it came under surveillance in 2013 by Germany’s domestic security agency. Pazderski said that the AfD would look into his past and 'find a solution'; leader Frauke Petry would not say whether they would consider dismissing him.. New AfD Berlin senator: Nazi civilian killings were 'legal', The Local, 21 September 2016. Accessed 07 October 2016. 
*27: Deutsche Welle reports that Germany's PEGIDA is 'descending into chaos as internal divisions have resulted in conflicting demonstrations' and as founder Lutz Bachmann is moving to a Spanish island. Former leader, Tatjana Festerling, staged her own counter-demonstration of 60-100 participants, against the regular event led by the current leader Lutz Bachmann. Both sides reportedly jeered the other during the demo, as insults, threats, and mutual accusations of splitting the movement were heard among demonstrators. Ben Knight, PEGIDA splintered as conflicting demos staged in Dresden, Deutsche Welle, 27 September 2016. Accessed 07 October 2016. 
====UK====
*8: Britain First leader Paul Golding is investigated over a suspected High Court injunction breach. Activists filmed themselves entering an Islamic centre accused of being home to a 'radical' Imam in Cardiff on January 20, an action prohibited to BF leaders following a High Court case. Paul Wright, '- Britain First leader investigated over Cardiff 'mosque invasion' and suspected High Court injunction breach' International Business Times, September 8, 2016. Last Accessed 13 September 2016. 
*28: The far right fielded four candidates in the Batley and Spen by-election following the murder of Jo Cox; David Furness (BNP), Richard Edmonds (National Front), Jack Buckby (Liberty GB) and Therese Hirst (English Democrats). Paul Wright, Jo Cox: Far-right parties to fight Batley and Spen by-election after MP's death, IB Times, 28 September 2016. accessed 25 October 2016. 
====Belgium====
*8: Belgium's extreme-right party Vlaams Belang polled at 15-20 per cent of the votes. JAN DE TROYER, Le Vlaams Belang a le vent en poupe,La Libre, 08 September 2016. Accessed 08 October 2016. 
====France====
*24: The new Generation Identitaire bar and headquarters opened in Lille despite the 60,000 signatures-strong petition and a 500-people protest against it. Rory Mulholland,Far-Right bar in Lille draws protests, The Telegraph, 25 September 2016. Accessed 28 September 2016. 
*30: Generation Identitaire raised a concrete wall in front of a Montpellier building that is soon to welcome 90 asylum seekers. On the wall was spray-painted «Montpellier sans clandestins!» ('No clandestines in Montpellier!'). Génération Identitaire érige un mur devant le futur centre d'accueil pour migrants à Montpellier, RT News, 30 September 2016. Accessed 07 October 2016. 
====Denmark====
*Members of the far-right Party of the Danes distributed aerosol spray cans labelled 'anti-migrant spray' in a Danish town, aimed at equipping the public against assault from immigrants and asylum seekers. Leader Daniel Carlsen said: 'I cannot see how it is racist, [...] [p]epper spray is illegal here so we wanted to figure out a way for Danish people, in particular women, to protect themselves. It’s obviously not the ideal situation.' The stunt mimicked that of Dutch MP Geert Wilders who in January 2016 gave women spray cans that promised to be 'Islamic testosterone bombs'. Ishaan Tharoor, Far-right party handed out ‘anti-migrant’ spray in Denmark, spurring backlash, The Washington Post, 30 September 2016. Accessed 10 October 2016. 
===October===
====Britain====
*1: The EDL marched through Boston in Lincolnshire, calling upon prime minister Theresa May to leave the EU and drastically reduce immigration. Live: Boston anti-immigration EDL protest, Lincolnshire Reporter, 1 October 2016. Accessed 25 October 2016. 
* A whites-only 'neo-nazi' food bank established by a far-right group in Glasgow was condemned by politicians after the group offered free food and clothes to white homeless people while displaying Nazi symbols on their stall. The Glasgow event was reportedly organised by a group called National Action, joined by Polish fascist party The National Revival of Poland. Neo-nazi 'whites only' food bank unacceptable says government minister, Evening Times, 01 October 2016. Accessed 25 October 2016. 
*2: The BBC was accused of inflaming racial tensions by trying to recruit members of the English Defence League to appear on Question Time, which was broadcast from Boston. A producer had posted a message on the EDL’s Facebook asking members to apply to join the audience, and advising readers on how to apply for tickets. No other group was asked. Christopher Hope, BBC accused of encouraging racial tension by trying to get Engish Defence League to appear in the audience on Question Time, The Telegraph, 2 OCTOBER 2016, Accessed 04 October 2016. 
*24: The BNP hold a majority on an Essex Council after two of their candidates '[stood] under a fake name'. The two elected men stood under the ‘Fighting Unsustainable Housing Because We Care’ banner instead of the BNP banner itself. It is unclear how many voters were aware of their BNP connections when they campaigned. THE BNP HAVE TAKEN A MAJORITY ON AN ESSEX COUNCIL AFTER ‘STANDING UNDER A FAKE NAME’, Political Scrapbook, 24 October 2016. Accessed 25 October 2016. 
*Founder of Britain First Jim Dowson has reportedly joined up with a Bulgarian armed militia called the Knights Templar International who hunt down and attack refugees crossing into Europe. According to the Express he has also spearheaded efforts to connect the heavily armed group with large right-wing donors in Europe, America and Asia. The right-wing figure said the Bulgarian border was a frontline in the battle against refugee 'invaders' who he claimed want to take over the world. Oli Smith, Britain First founder joins Bulgarian militia to hunt down and attack Muslim refugees, Express, 31 October 2016. Accessed 07 November 2016. 
====Denmark====
*6: Daniel Carlsen, leader of the far-right Danes' Party, is charged under an anti-racism law after distributing the aerosols labelled ‘Asyl-Spray’ in Haderslev. Danish nationalist charged with racism for 'refugee spray', The Local, 6 October 2016, Accessed 25 October 2016. 
*31: Beginning of Geert Wilders' trial for incitement to hatred. He did not attend after declaring he would not - citing his right to freedom of speech and his role as speaker for the silent majority in his defence. The trial was set after over 6,400 complaints for incitement to hatred, discrimination and defamation filed against him. Jean-Pierre Stroobants Aux Pays-Bas, le procès de Geert Wilders pour incitation à la haine s’ouvre en son absence, Le Monde, 31 October 2016. Accessed 03 November 2016. 
====Germany====
*7: Leader of AfD Party Frauke Petry compared a society incorporating migrants to a 'compost heap'. In her own words: 'What should we make of the campaign "Germany is Colorful"? A compost heap is colorful, too'. During that same speech she gave in Stuttgart, she argued against the notion of a 'colorful' Germany, wanting a more 'homogenous' nation instead. In the previous month she had caused outrage by saying German Chancellor Angela Merkel was a bad politician because she does not have any children. Outrage as German far-right leader likens societies with migrants to ‘compost heaps’, RT News, 7 October 2016. Accessed 17 November 2016. 
*26: Lutz Bachmann, leader of the anti-Islam PEGIDA reportedly used money from the group's coffers to pay off €5,000 court costs of two cases brought against him as an individual. On his private Facebook page last year, Bachmann had insulted two mayors who were photographed helping refugees with their suitcases. He argued on Facebook that 'if a Pegida member posts something on a site belonging to the group' - including on his own personal page - 'then it is the most normal thing in the world that the association would pay for the court case.' Pegida leader 'paid court costs with group's money', The Local, 26 October 2016. Accessed 03 November 2016. 
====Norway====
*20: Norway's migration and integration minister Sylvi Listhaug sparked a firestorm of criticism after issuing instructions to newly-arrived Muslim migrants that included: 'Here we eat pork, drink alcohol and show our face. You must abide by the values, laws and regulations that are in Norway when you come here. [...] Going to a job interview, you wouldn’t wear sweatpants and a cap. So, don’t wear a niqab or a burka,', and 'each of us has to pay attention to our surroundings, and the Norwegian taxpayer will not fund your life.' ‘We eat pork and drink alcohol’: Norwegian minister roasted after giving Muslims integration advice, RT News, 20 October 2016. Accessed 21 October 2016.
====France====
*29: The group Generation Identitaire held an anti-refugee demo in Versailles to protest against the relocation of 3,000 Calais refugees in Paris, and the creation of a refugee centre at Yvelines. Versailles : manifestation du mouvement anti-immigration Génération identitaire, RT News, 29 October 2016. Accessed 03 November 2016. 
===November===
====France====
*1: The Front National declared that it had no affiliation with the new Quebec group by Daniel Boucher under the same name. Marine Le Pen declared that she would sue him for using their name if need be. Boucher claims he started the group after meeting Le Pen in march, and put up pictures of her before taking them down at the demand of the French FN. The Quebec party pledges to destroy mosques and ban Islam, amongst other things. Martin Croteau, Le Front national français nie tout lien avec le FN du Québec, La Presse, 01 november 2016. Accessed 03 November 2016. 
*3: Karim Ouchikh from the SIEL (Souveraineté, Identité Et Liberté) publishes an article in the right-wing (Sarkozist) newspaper Minute officially removing its support for the French Front National. The party has welcomed the islamophobic Renaud Camus since 2015, and had been the FN's ally since 2011, but Ouchikh denounced endless mockeries and unwillingness to be affiliated from Marine Le Pen and her party. Olivier Faye, Avec SIEL, le Front national est en passe de perdre son seul allié, Le Monde, 02 November 2016. Accessed 03 November 2016. 
====Britain====
*2: Welsh police said they would take Paul Golding leader of the far-right group Britain First to court following an incident at a Cardiff mosque. Golding fears he could face up to six months in prison if found to have breached the High Court injunction. Paul Wright, Fresh crisis for Britain First as police take leader Paul Golding to court over Cardiff mosque row], International Business Times, 02 november 2016. Accessed 03 November 2016. 
* A court heard that Britain First deputy leader Jayda Fransen, launched a tirade of abuse at Sumayyah Sharpe during a Britain First 'patrol' in Luton on 23 January 2016. Keiligh Baker,Deputy leader of far-right group Britain First 'hurled abuse at a Muslim woman for wearing a hijab while brandishing a white cross in front of her four young children', Mail Online, 02 November 2016. Accessed 03 November 2016. 
*26: Anti-mosque demonstration in Bolton organised by the far-right (approximately 100 demonstrators and 150 counter-demonstrators). Photos from the event clearly showed Nazi-saluting members of the neo-nazi National Action standing beside the Pie and Mash Squad. Also present were the North West Infidels (NWI). The event was promoted by the Scottish Defense League and the North West Division of the English Defence League. Tell MAMA wrote that this protest 'show[ed] more far-right coordination'. Bolton ‘stop the mosque’ protest shows more far-right coordination, Tell MAMA, November 28 2016. Accessed 8 December 2016. 
*28: Paul Nuttall was elected as the new leader of UKIP Paul Nuttall: The new leader of UKIP, BBC, 28 November 2016, accessed 28 November 2016. 
====Germany====
*3:The Alternative for Germany party (AfD) released a new policy pledging to cut all financial aid for refugees and to change the law to stop family members from joining them. It recommends holding people of 'uncertain identity' in offshore camps away from Europe until their rights of passage are sorted. The camps would be in north Africa, Turkey, western Syria and Libya and overseen by the EU. The policy prompted accusations of closeness to Nazi discourse. Alan Hall, German far-right party outlines plan to solve migrant crisis, The Times, 03 November 2016. Accessed 03 November 2016. 
*8: Lutz Bachmann and his deputy leader, Siegfried Däbritz, are banned from leading weekly PEGIDA rallies until 2021. Tom Porter, Founder of far right Pegida group banned from leading rallies, International Business Times, November 8, 2016. Accessed November 28 2016. 
*16: After AfD MP Hans-Thomas Tillschneider spoke at a PEGIDA rally in May 2016, Lutz Bachmann invited the co-leader Frauke Petry to do the same, adding 'these are your voters, Frauke, and you have to be here'. Chris Tomlinson, PEGIDA’s Bachmann Salutes America, Invites AfD Leader Petry To Speak, Breitbart, 16 November 2016. accessed November 28 2016. 
*30: Six members of the neo-Nazi group Free Comradeship of Dresden were arrested following raids in Dresden by Saxony police. The arrestees were suspected of involvement in 14 criminal acts, including an explosive attack, attempted arson, damage to property and several instances of causing bodily arm. The detained members were also charged for attacking asylum seekers and political opponents. Six arrested following raids on suspected Dresden neo-Nazi group, Deutsche Welle, 30 November 2016. Accessed 19 December 2016. 
*30: After appealing a court decision in May 2016, the Dresden state court confirmed that PEGIDA leader Lutz Bachmann would have to pay the fine of 9,600 euros for 'inciting hatred against foreigners'. According to reports, Bachmann called the refugees 'cattle,' 'garbage' and a 'dirty bunch' in his Facebook in 2014. German Court Upholds Fine Against PEGIDA Anti-Islamist Movement Leader, Sputnik News, December 1 2016. Accessed 21 December 2016. 
====United States====
*9: Far-right Republican candidate Donald Trump wins the presidential election against Hilary Clinton. 
*Reactions to the American election: Front National leader Marine Le Pen praised him on Twitter: 'Congratulations to the new president of the United States Donald Trump and to the free American people!'. UKIP's Nigel Farage said it seemed like 2016 was the year of two huge political revolutions: Brexit and the nomination of Trump. Geert Wilders congratulated Trump’s 'historic' victory, and in a second tweet boasting '#MakeTheNetherlandsGreatAgain', he wrote that like the U.S. the Dutch 'will conquer our country' again. Frauke Petry, the leader of AfD, congratulated Trump on Twitter, calling it a 'fresh start' and 'historic'. Greece’s far-right Golden Dawn party celebrated this 'victory' in favor of ethnically 'clean' nations and against 'illegal immigration'. Hungary’s PM Viktor Orban said on Facebook that Trump’s win was 'great news' and that 'democracy is still alive'. Tara John, Europe’s Populists Cheer Donald Trump’s Ascent to the Presidency, TIME, November 9, 2016, accessed November 15 2016. Heinz-Christian Strache, the leader of Austria’s Freedom Party, wrote: '[b]it by bit, the political left and the out-of-touch and corrupt establishment is being punished by voters and driven from the seats of power'. Beppe Grillo, leader of the Five Star Movement, had not formally endorsed Trump, but in a blogpost after the results were in was full of praise for his unexpected win, which he said had proven that journalists and intellectuals were the true 'demagogues' who were 'anchored to a world that no longer exists'. Matthew Weaver, Stephanie Kirchgaessner, Helena Smith, Kate Connolly and Philip Oltermann, Rightwing populists first to congratulate Trump on historic upset, The Guardian, November 9, 2016, accessed November 15 2016. 
====Hungary====
*28: In Ásotthalom, Hungary, the mayor László Toroczkai banned mosque construction, the use of a muezzin at prayer times and the wearing of clothes such as the niqab and the burkini, which prompted one of the main Muslim organizations in the country to accuse him on xenophobia. Toroczkai is a vice-president of the far right Jobbik party, and came to prominence in 2015 when he filmed an action movie-style video at a fence on the Serbian border warning migrants not to enter Hungary. He said these recent steps were taken to 'protect the community and its traditions from any mass settlement from outside'. Hungarian Muslim group criticises town's 'xenophobic' decrees, The Guardian, 28 November 2016. Accessed 19 December 2016. 
===December===
*1: After his appeal in May, Lutz Bachmann, leader of PEGIDA, has been sentenced again to pay the 9,600 euro fine for 'inciting hatred against foreigners'. German Court Upholds Fine Against PEGIDA Anti-Islamist Movement Leader, Sputnik News, 01 December 2016. Accessed 08 December 2016. 
*5: In the rerun of the Austrian presidential elections, the Green Party associate candidate wins again, increasing his margin from May tenfold. The Austrian Freedom Party candidate Norbert Hofer lost, but still remains a formidable force in Austrian politics. His 46.7% was the best national result to date for the FPÖ. Austria far-right candidate Norbert Hofer defeated in presidential poll, BBC News, 5 December 2016, accessed 6 December 2016. 
*7: White Supremacist Richard Spencer's appearance at Texas A&M to speak about his views gathered huge protests. For roughly two hours, Spencer delivered his message of white supremacy to a room of 400 people, the vast majority of whom were there in protest. Moreover, while his presence was embraced by mere dozens inside, it was largely drowned out from the outcry of thousands of protesters outside of the room. The Senior Vice President Amy Smith also said in a statement that the school 'finds (Spencer's) views as expressed to date in direct conflict with our core values.' Max Blau, Sara Ganim and Chris Welch, Richard Spencer's appearance at Texas A&M draws protests, CNN, 7 December 2016. Accessed 14 December 2016. 
*12: An order to classify the British neo-Nazi group National Action as a terrorist organisation is laid before Parliament. It will be the first time membership of a far-right group has been outlawed in the UK. The group has been deemed to have 'crossed the line and glorified terrorism': one tweet by the group reportedly showed a picture of Mair with the message: 'VoteLeave, don’t let this man’s sacrifice go in vain. Jo Cox would have filled Yorkshire with more subhumans!'. Their Twitter account is now suspended. The far right North West Infidels also said on social media the group believes Ms Cox 'got what she deserved'. Charlotte England British neo-Nazi group 'to be classed as terror organisation and banned' in unprecedented move, The Independent, 12 December 2016, accessed !2 December 2016. 
*13: Tommy Robinson was invited by University of York student journalists to speak at an event centered around 'free speech, liberty and the police state'. But the decision sparked huge anger and condemnation which led to a backtrack from the organizers. York University Students’ Union’s black, minority ethnic (BME) officer said: 'Robinson is a marginal character on the far right these days and him speaking and the attention around it could get him back in the spotlight, which would be a shame to see happen, all for the sake of a few student journalists trying to further their career off the back of far right politics.' Jack Gevertz, Furious backlash over plans to bring far right activist to speak in York, York Mix, 13 December 2016. Accessed 14 December 2016. 
*16: Former Britain First leader Paul Golding was sent to jail for 8 weeks for breaching a High Court order which prohibited him from entering mosques in England and Wales. Former Britain First leader Paul Golding jailed for breaching mosque ban, RT News, December 16 2016. Accessed December 20 2016. 
*19: German anti-refugee MEP Marcus Pretzell for the far-right AfD blamed Chancellor Angela Merkel for a lorry which crashed into a Christmas market in Berlin, killing nine people and injuring dozens of others. The twitter message was sent just minutes after the apparent attack, when no information had been yet received concerning the identity of the perpetrators. Will Worley, German anti-refugee MEP blames Angela Merkel for Berlin attack: 'Those are her dead!', The Independent, 19 December 2016. Accessed 21 December 2016 
*20: The New York Times claimed that far-right anti-Muslim activist Jim Dowson was behind a fake news website - Patriot News Agency - that pumped out anti-Hillary Clinton propaganda during the US presidential election, including that she was linked to conspiracies involving Satanism, paedophilia and murder. Union flag protester 'behind site that ran anti-Clinton stories', Belfast Telegraph, 20 December 2016. Accessed 21 December 2016. 
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