Unionist parties in vile anti-refugee rants

A unionist party in the North has called for refugees to be “hunted from loyalist areas if they are put in” in a racist online rant that comes in the wake of the attacks in Paris.

The North Antrim, Derry and Tyrone branch of the Ulster Political Research Group (UPRG), which is linked to the outlawed UDA death-squad, went on to say: 

“These rabid animals are among us now. Loyalists watch your families,” because “they are coming for us soon.”

Earlier the South Antrim spokesperson for the UVF-linked Progressive Unionist Party (PUP) Scott McDowell was forced to apologise after he described majority Muslim nations as “breeding grounds for generations of suicide bombers” and called for them to be “carpet bombed, and dare I say it a nuclear bomb dropped on them if needs be”.

Friday's gun and bomb attacks in Paris which killed at least 130 people have been claimed by the so-called Islamic State group.

Many right-wing organisations have been quick to blame refugees for the attacks despite most of the perpetrators hailing from Belgium and France. Two Syrian passports found at the scene of two separate attacks in Paris are believed to have been forgeries.

On Monday a minute's silence was held at Assembly Buildings and attended by all political parties in memory of the victims of the Paris attacks. 

Meanwhile, in Dublin, hundreds attended a similar ceremony at the French Embassy where President Michael D Higgins signed a book of condolences.