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More proof that it is the Scots and Scotland that the Irish should be more concerned about than the English and England.
England in 2011 would not allow this anti Irish anti Catholic carry on.
Several years ago
Several years on and rangers fans still allowed to shame Scotland. Proves Ally McCoist's condemnation as very hollow. Should have guessed when he called sectarian hate and anti Irish race hate - nonsense.
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Video Evidence - Rangers Fans Singing The Billy Boys and the Famine song
This is what Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill calls a “great advert for Scottish football”.
What the Assistant Chief Constable of Strathclyde Police claimed a excellent atmosphere.
This video shows Glasgow Rangers FC as a focus for fascism and fascist organizers.
The Billy boys song of Rangers fans celebrates the blackshirts fascists, associates of Adolf Hitler.
The truth behind the Billy boys song.
The continued singing of the Famine song showed Scotland has not moved on from sectarianism.
“Obviously such songs have a long history in Scottish football,” he told the SCO this week. “These particular ones seemed to have disappeared in recent years from football’s public stage, but Sunday shows that they remain part of anti-Catholic and anti-Irish popular culture.
“The lack of subsequent appropriate and erudite comment on the part of many in Scotland, not least of all politicians, the police and football authorities, reflects a society struggling with ethnic and religious diversity and with a lack of in-depth knowledge and understanding with regards ethnic and religious prejudice and bigotry in this country.”
Socialist politician George Galloway told Irish journalist Phil Mac Giolla Bhain that he had been appalled at the chanting from the Rangers support.
“The Famine song, just one of the hate anthems that assaulted us from the TV, has been ruled as racist by an eminent judge,” Mr Galloway said. “The police, who praised the fans and the comparatively low number of arrests, clearly stood back and allowed the sectarian and racist abuse.”
Government stance
Justice Minister Kenny MacAskill, unbelievably, has claimed the game, which was played after the recent government summit on sectarianism, had been a ‘showpiece final.’
“This was the showpiece final everyone wanted to see, and it was a great advert for Scottish football,” he said. “The players, management and fans contributed to a memorable occasion, and I urge that their positive example inside the ground is replicated outside it over the course of the evening and beyond.”
A spokesman for the Crown Prosecution service told the SCO that solicitor general Frank Mulholland, with the backing of Lord Advocate Elish Angiolini, recently recommended the release of the breakdown of how and where sectarian offences were occurring in Scotland. The Scottish Government still has to legislate on these issues.
Peter Kearney, who has been calling for these figures to be made public for the past five years, said that information must be released so it can inform anti-sectarianism policy going forward.
“At the moment we don’t know the details of who is at risk of sectarian attack,” he said. “In 2006, which is the last figures we have, it showed Irish and Catholics were five times as much at risk. But we don’t have this data for the present day and we need it to find a solution.”
MacMillan criticises comments on cup final
Martin Williams
James MacMillan, one of Scotland leading classical composers has condemned Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill for claiming the Co-operative Insurance Cup final between Rangers and Celtic was a “great advert for Scottish football”.
The Kilwinning-born composer, who wrote new music for two of the Pope’s masses during his official visit to the UK, also criticised the Assistant Chief Constable of Strathclyde Police for claiming the atmosphere in Hampden was excellent while fans were heard singing banned sectarian songs.
In a letter to The Herald, Mr MacMillan says the final was “marred by the incessant discriminatory chanting of Rangers fans”.
He adds: “So what exactly was Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill thinking of when he said that the game had been a ‘great advert for Scottish football’?
“And what was Assistant Chief Constable of Strathclyde Police thinking when he stated that ‘the atmosphere at the ground was excellent and the match was a great advert for our football’?
“Is it Government and police policy now to ignore sectarian and racist abuse? Or is it only anti-Irish racism and blatant anti-Catholicism that is allowed to be flaunted freely in Scottish football stadiums?”
Irish march moved after threats
An Irish republican parade has been moved amid fears counter-demonstrators could attack a pub at the march’s assembly point.
The St Patrick’s Day march, organised by Cairde na hEireann, Scotland’s largest Irish republican group, will now set off 300 yards from Stanley Street in the Kinning Park area of Glasgow after concerns were raised that the Stanley Bar would be targeted by loyalist sympathisers.
The owner of the bar, John Byrne, told The Herald earlier this week that he had received threats to him and his wife, as well as a phone call warning him that the pub would be firebombed because it was being linked with the parade.
At a meeting of Glasgow City Council’s processions committee, Cairde na hEireann claimed the parade was no different from any St Patrick’s Day procession, despite it being headed by a flute band commemorating an IRA member killed by loyalists, and that by moving it the local authority was bowing to anti-Irish racism.
The group questioned why there was a hearing into the parade, already re-routed and curtailed by over two miles since last year’s event, which was attacked by loyalists.
And it insisted that, as there had been no objections, it should start off from where it had been arranged.
But the committee took the view the parade increased the risk of a threat to the pub if it started on Stanley Street.
Officials dismissed the group’s suggestion it had been singled out, pointing to a large climate change demonstration which had been re-routed, as well as a recent parade by the Orange Order, where after negotiations the number of participants was cut.
Councillor Jim Coleman, who heads the processions committee, said: “There has been a clear set of circumstances to be considered, including public safety, and the committee imposed a new assembly point.
“This is something we have had to do in the past in relation to a number of processions and marches by various different organisations.”
This was the Church of Scotland a few years ago admitting they fueled racial and sectraian hatred for the Irish.
Church of Scotland admits fuelling anti-Irish bigotry
The Church of Scotland admitted yesterday it had treated thousands of Irish immigrants like second-class citizens in the past.
The watershed admission came in a church report on sectarianism which was published yesterday. An influential church committee said there had been a concerted anti-Irish campaign which had left a legacy of bigotry.
The controversial report signalled a new initiative to stamp out sectarianism. It was welcomed by the Catholic Church in Scotland as "a mature reflection of past actions". The Church openly denounced Irish immigrants throughout the 1920s and 1930s. Yesterday's report compared the anti-Irish sentiment to Enoch Powell's infamous "rivers of blood" anti-coloureds speech in the 1960s.
The report admitted the church of Scotland portrayed Irish incomers in the worst possble light.
It said: "It is a matter of regret the church could have taken such a position. We may also be judged in hindsight to have turned a blind eye to sectarian attitudes which still remain under the surface in the Church."
The report, which will now go before the annual meeting of the ruling council, the General Assembly, labelled sectarianism "a demon in our society" and urged church members to reconsider their links with the Orange Order as it was seen as an anti-Catholic organisation.
The study was carried out by 60 key officers of the church with input from anti-sectarian campaign groups.
The Orange Order has 800 lodges in Scotland. A spokesman for the order said: "I think some members will be quite upset by this report."
- Fraser Macmillan
What other army but the British would allow their troops to proudly display sectarian and racist banners.
At 2 minutes 35 you can witness the royal navy mimick what gazza got fined for. Such a pathetic sectarian display by the individual shames what is left of their navy, and shows total disrespect for the catholics and Irish who were foolish enough to serve in it.
These sectarian idiots are the very kind to complain about Celtic fans not wanting the politics of war remembrance brought into sport.
As if these pathetic sectarian neds in the british navy care about equal remembrance and honor of all war dead.
Once again all encouraged by Rangers FC under the false flag of remembrance.
Anti Irish bigotry is Scotlands shame.
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