Regarding coverage, people seem to have ignored that MacGregor plead guilty at his hearing ie there was no trial to cover, unlike with the Lyrical Terrorist.
He’ll have been in court for all of 10 minutes, the PF will have read a brief suimmation of the charges, MacGregor will have plead guilty and then sentencing will have been deferred for reports.

So, does anyone want me to see if I can get into the court and report back? It’s just up the road.

An alternative theory, which is unlikely but not completely impossible, is that the story’s being played down because of intervention by HMGs Community Cohesion Partnerships, as blogged here.

Our rulers are so convinced that white racism is everywhere that I wouldn’t put it past them to suppress the story for fear of copycats.

Which, sounds like most Jihadis too (including the ‘lyrical terrorist’) and yet there was far more coverage then.

is this actually correct ? According to the HuT website,

“The court heard how 35-year-old MacGregor admitted sending a race hate email to Strathclyde Police threatening to blow up [Glasgow Central] Mosque if certain demands weren’t met. Included in the chilling message was a threat to behead one Muslim a week in the same manner construction worker Ken Bigley was killed after he was kidnapped in Iraq in 2004.

MacGregor followed the email up with a 999 call to cops on February 5, 2007. The court was told that during the brief call MacGregor claimed he was from the National Front and that a bomb was going to go off. He said: “A bomb will go off in the Central Mosque later this week. Now f*** off.” Cops raced to the Mosque to search it for explosive devices, but failed to locate anything suspicious.”

Now that doesn’t sound like an attempted attack to me. It sounds like a mouthy idiot. Any evidence of anything more ?

platinum786 – “Roger Cottage. BNP member, caught with explosives, a rocket launcher, planning on attacking Muslims and Mosques”

a) Robert, not Roger.

b) no explosives, no rocket launcher. The mysterious rocket launcher disappeared from the court evidence quite early on, as did the alleged radiological protection suits. But he DID plead guilty to possessing explosives – despite the fact that he didn’t have any, although he had things you could use to make explosives out of.

c) no evidence was presented that Robert Cottage planned to attack Muslims or mosques. What was presented was his wife’s evidence :

“He thinks there’s a war going to happen with the culture, the Asian culture and the white culture and that Tony Blair and President Bush are scheming against people”

He sounds more like a HuT member every day.

http://ukcommentators.blogspot.com/2007/08/boom-bang-bang.html

‘Hmmm I reckon there’s a real opportunity here for a trans-regional citizen journalism project here…’

And much more.

We don’t have the staff to have a reporter sitting in court all day anymore. LOADS of interesting things going on court are now completely unreported.

But if no one wants to invest in news and journalism such is life.

Hmmm I reckon there’s a real opportunity here for a trans-regional citizen journalism project here…

The most important reason for reporting it, and perhaps giving it exceptional coverage is the fissures that may be developing within our society.

The rampant coverage of all-things negative about muslims is obviously the compost idiots like Neil MacGregor need to set them off. It will not be the organised far-right to worry about, it will be individuals in their bedrooms, or at the bar.

In the end unless, the likes of Blears and the bottom-feeder blogshites (naming no names on this occasion) are countered effectively, we will all pay the price.

Its nuts to carry on arguing that only muslims are in the cross-hairs. Its this society that is being undermined by the media. It would be wrong to presume they all know what they are doing.

Did Mr MacGregor possess explosives, have access to explosives or know how to make explosives? Did he have accomplices?- it takes more than one person to behead someone; they usually wriggle and the blows miss the neck unless they are held still. In short, was he anything but a loudmouth with sick fantasies?

Very true, but given the comparative coverage given to that Muslim woman a little while ago who wrote offensive “poems” online (the ‘lyrical terrorist’: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samina_Malik ) and was prosecuted under the Terrorism Act (and rightly so), one would have expected the attempted attack on Glasgow Central Mosque to have received much greater publicity.

The fact that it didn’t is an unfortunate sign of the times and an indication that, in some quarters of the media and society in general, Muslims are indeed the villains du jour. Some double standards are at play here.

But it was still reported. The Glasgow mosque attempted attack was ignored.

And are you seriously suggesting what happens in Bangladesh is more news worthy in the UK than an attempted terrorist attack on the largest mosque in Scotland?

The media will be the death of us Muslims

So a story like this which is counter-intuitive in the racial/cultural identities of both the perpetrator and potential victims will certainly not become mainstream. Of course you then have all this talk of slipping the net and the “Rogers” (like post #2) who consume the normal trash will strain and stretch in an attempt at justifiying this kind of thing.

Sorry, I know its obvious but maybe someone out there is not aware of it yet.

And as for proper court reporting…forget it. We don’t have the staff to have a reporter sitting in court all day anymore. LOADS of interesting things going on court are now completely unreported.

But if no one wants to invest in news and journalism such is life.

Roger, remember your name sake, Roger Cottage. BNP member, caught with explosives, a rocket launcher, planning on attacking Muslims and Mosques, given 2.5 years. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2007/jul/31/thefarright.ukcrime

He didn’t even make TV.