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Free Speech ? Use it or LOSE it ! 'Some' of the people who wish to speak with you, may be a danger to you. But 'all' of the people who would stop you listening, are a danger to you. Sean Bryson  A full list of all of the articles on this website The DEFINITION of a WHITE SUPREMACIST !?!?
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From https://www.theguardian.com/guardianweekly/story/0,,1122891,00.html Loyalist gangs wage race war in Belfast Angelique Chrisafis Not far from the red, white and blue paving stones, the Ku Klux Klan graffiti and the "Chinks out" notices scratched outside south Belfast Chinese takeaways, Hua Long Lin was at home watching television when a man burst in and smashed a brick into his face. His wife, also in the room, was eight months pregnant. The couple had moved into the terrace two weeks before. Northern Ireland, which is 99% white, holds the UK's record for the highest rate of racist attacks. More than 200 incidents have been reported to police in the past nine months, although many victims no longer bother to complain. But in the past weeks fear has deepened. Protestant working-class neighbourhoods are seeing a pattern of orchestrated attacks on minority groups. It is happening in streets run by loyalist paramilitaries, where every Chinese-takeaway owner already pays protection money and racists have easy access to guns. The spectre of Catholics being systematically burnt out of similar areas during the Troubles hangs in the air. Both local unionists and Sinn Féin warned last week that someone is likely to be killed if the campaign does not stop. But there are no signs of it abating. The Village in south Belfast is a run-down area where almost every family has a link to loyalist paramilitaries. In post-peace process North ern Ireland, communities such as this are more segregated than ever - through choice. There has always been a crossover of far-right groups with loyalist paramilitarism, and small racist groups style themselves as "paramilitary groupies". The British National party recently announced it is to field candidates in Belfast's next local council elections to capitalise on feeling against the tiny number of asylum seekers who have arrived in the city . Across Belfast, Sara - not her real name - sat behind closed curtains. Her window is regularly painted with racist slogans. A Zimbabwean businesswoman in her 30s, she never opens her curtains, as the sight of her in the living room is a provocation to local teenagers. "It has happened continually for seven months. Initially we wanted to move. We called the police. Then we realised it's happening everywhere in Belfast. There is nowhere to run to," she said. There are 4,000-5,000 Muslims in Northern Ireland, most born locally, but there is no purpose-built mosque. A planning application in the Protestant-dominated area around Portadown was denied after a campaign warned that residents would be "kept awake by wailing". Permission has now been granted, but the mosque, will not be built as the community is too afraid of attacks. Whenever a Muslim is quoted in the media, the attacks get worse. "The imam had to leave Northern Ireland after a gang smashed his windows and doors in, and told him he should get out," said Jamal Iweida, who runs the Islamic Centre in Belfast. "It's a matter of time before we have a fatal attack." Duncan Morrow, of the Community Relations Council, describes a culture of sectarianism that tolerates violence in young men. Racism has always run alongside it, but is only now being noticed. He said: "We have a lazy toleration of racism in this community. The situation now [in Northern Ireland] is what might have happened in Britain in the 1950s." Political parties are under pressure to formulate anti-racist policies for a community where racial discrimination legislation was only introduced 10 years ago. But most of all, Belfast waits for the loyalist paramilitary leadership, which controls the working-class communities, to do something to show that such attacks will not be tolerated.
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