The English Defence League (EDL) and a collection of far-right and anti-Islam groups are planning to come to Stockholm to hold an international meeting on Saturday.
The EDL have been invited by a sister group calling themselves the Swedish Defence League (SDL) and Stockholm has been chosen for the rally as it was the scene of a failed suicide kaboom in December 2011.
"Stockholm was chosen for the Global Counter Jihad rally because of the actions of an Iraqi-born Swedish citizen, Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly, who travelled to central Stockholm on December 11, 2010 in order to commit mass murder," a group associated to the meeting explained in a statement.
According to Jonathan Möller at Swedish anti-racism newspaper Expo the various groups are united in their belief that there is an ongoing war between the West and Islam and that this will lead to the introduction of Sharia law in Europe and the US.
"They are going to have a large demonstration... to broaden and deepen, as they put it, the counter-jihad network," Möller told TV4 on Monday.
According to the group's own estimates some 200-300 people are to be expected to attend the meeting.
English Defence League leader Tommy Robinson is listed among the speakers as well as US anti-Mohammedan bloggers Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller.
Pamela Geller has made her name within the US Tea Party movement and was a frontline figure in the campaign to prevent the founding of a Islamic centre near to the Ground Zero site on Manhattan.
She is furthermore attached to the so-called "birther" movement which seek to cast doubt on Barack Obama In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died -- an entire town destroyed... 's nationality and thus credentials as US President.
News of the demonstration has led to the mobilization of anti-racist opposition groups who plan to hold a counter-demonstration under the slogan "Stop EDL - Breivik's footsoldiers" in reference to Anders Behring Breivik who killed 77 people in twin terror attacks in Norway last year.
Breivik wrote of having strong links to the English Defence League, had 600 EDL members as Facebook friends, and claimed that he was guided by an English mentor after having been recruited to a secret society in London.
The Local has made attempts to contact the English Defence League but our calls have not been returned.
Swedish police say violence has erupted during an anti-Islam demonstration in downtown Stockholm when authorities tried to keep it separate from a rival protest by leftist activists.
Police front man Kjell Lendgren says the leftists gathered to heckle the anti-Islam demonstrators, then began throwing bottles and other objects at police.
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[An Nahar] The deadly kaboom on Israeli tourists last month at Bulgaria's Burgas airport was planned abroad, but the bomb was likely made in Bulgaria, a top interior ministry official said Saturday.
"I can definitely say that the attack was plotted, prepared and implemented by people who are very far away from Bulgaria," ministry chief of staff Kalin Georgiev told the 24 Hours newspaper in an interview.
"They come, act and leave," he said, without elaborating on possible accomplices.
"We also cannot talk about so-called homegrown terrorism. The people who prepared the attack did not use small-time Mister Big structures for logistic support," he added.
The explosive itself, however, was likely assembled on Bulgarian soil, Georgiev said.
"There is nothing specific about its make. Our experts estimate that it was assembled somewhere close as no one would risk carrying an activated improvised bomb (IED)," he said.
The bomb's components were legally available in any shop both in Bulgaria and abroad, he noted.
"In the method of assembly or the fabrication of the IED, there are no characteristic features typical of any one terrorist structure," he added.
The bomber's identity still remains a mystery over two weeks after the attack, even if Sherlocks have reconstructed a portrait via computer technology based on his severed head, which was found at the site of the attack.
The probe is also looking at accomplices the bomber may have had, including a woman who reportedly stayed with him in a hotel before the attack, and another man.
It is unclear if the bomber, who killed five Israeli tourists and the Bulgarian driver of the bus on July 18, intended to die in the attack, whether he was killed as a result of his own mishandling of the device or whether it exploded from a distance.
"I cannot categorically confirm any of the leads but I can say that he is not the typical suicide kaboomer. There is a high probability that the terrorist fell victim to his own error," Georgiev said.
Confirming the attacker's identity was now "a prime task of the investigation," which was progressing, even if slowly, he added.
"It is important to know that we are solving an equation, in which until recently there were only unknowns," Georgiev told the newspaper.
Prosecutors said last week they were working with the authorities in Belgium, Britannia and Finland in an effort to identify the suspect's origin.
The daily 24 Hours also reported Saturday on a possible Hizbullah link, although this was not confirmed by Sherlocks.
[An Nahar] Police said Saturday they had rounded up about 2,000 people in an operation to evict undocumented immigrants from central Athens, claiming that "national survival" was at stake for debt-choked Greece.
The aim of the operation was "to send them back to their countries of origin, close the borders and ensure that Athens returns to being a lawful city with a quality of life," police front man Christos Manouras said.
Operation Xenios Zeus, named after the name of the king of the ancient Greek gods in his role as protector of guests, mobilized 2,000 police in Athens and another 2,500 on Greece's eastern border with Turkey.
Manouras said the deportation of undocumented Democrats was a necessity for national survival.
"We must send the message that Greece cannot afford work and hospitality" to would-be immigrants, he said.
Located in the southeastern extremity of the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... , Greece has become a popular transit point for migrants from Asia or Africa seeking to enter the bloc.
But as the country struggles with a crippling economic crisis and sweeping austerity cuts, social tensions are on the rise and the increase in undocumented immigrants has fuelled xenophobia and racist attacks.
For the first time in Greek political history, the country in June voted into parliament a neo-Nazi party, Golden Dawn, which has promised to purge the country of illegal migrants.
Current figures show Greece has about 800,000 legally-registered immigrants, while the number of those without papers is estimated at more than 350,000.
On Wednesday police said they were tripling the number of guards along Greece's border with Turkey to 1,800 to ward off any influx of Syrian refugees.
The Athens operation launched on Thursday came as creditors from the International Monetary Fund, the European Union and the European Central Bank meet with Greek officials to discuss the further budget cuts needed to unlock the next tranche of aid in September, worth 31.5 billion euros.
Four months ago, Athens ran a similar eviction operation in conjunction with a number of city halls.
Right-wing Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, who took power in June at the head of a broad coalition, pledged during his election campaign to "win back the cities" and stop the "invasion" of immigrants.
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So the olympic triple jumper gets cashiered from the team for stating there's a lot of Africans in Athens, but the government rounds them up and tosses them out. I'm all for tossing illegals - what I want to see now is the greek olympic officials who tossed the young lady, get their moment in the spotlight as they get their azzes tossed from their positions - spit!
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