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A race relations worker has been convicted of racially abusing a group of Scots at a rally to welcome Syrian refugees to Scotland.
Shafiq Mohammed, 50, was also found guilty of resisting arrest at a demonstration in Monkton, South Ayrshire, on 15 November 2015.
The former Scottish Refugee Council worker broke through a police cordon to verbally abuse a woman and three men.
The rally took place hours after the Paris terrorist attacks.
Ayr Sheriff Court heard how tempers flared among members of the Scottish Defence League and pro-refugee demonstrators.
It followed 150 refugees being granted emergency accommodation at the Ayrshire town's Adamton Country House Hotel.
Mohammed denied behaving in a racially aggravated manner which was intended to cause alarm and distress.
He claimed the four witnesses had conspired to make up the allegations against him.
Sheriff Robert Weir QC found him guilty on both charges and sentence was deferred.
The court heard Mohammed had previously worked for property firm Orchard & Shipman, which has been paid more than £60m to house refugees in Scotland.
He is currently involved in the Asylum Seeker Housing (ASH) Project - an organisation campaigning on asylum seeker housing issues in the west of Scotland.
Mr Mohammed has made a nice living of the back of fellow migrants.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-37803531
Shafiq Mohammed, 50, was also found guilty of resisting arrest at a demonstration in Monkton, South Ayrshire, on 15 November 2015.
The former Scottish Refugee Council worker broke through a police cordon to verbally abuse a woman and three men.
The rally took place hours after the Paris terrorist attacks.
Ayr Sheriff Court heard how tempers flared among members of the Scottish Defence League and pro-refugee demonstrators.
It followed 150 refugees being granted emergency accommodation at the Ayrshire town's Adamton Country House Hotel.
Mohammed denied behaving in a racially aggravated manner which was intended to cause alarm and distress.
He claimed the four witnesses had conspired to make up the allegations against him.
Sheriff Robert Weir QC found him guilty on both charges and sentence was deferred.
The court heard Mohammed had previously worked for property firm Orchard & Shipman, which has been paid more than £60m to house refugees in Scotland.
He is currently involved in the Asylum Seeker Housing (ASH) Project - an organisation campaigning on asylum seeker housing issues in the west of Scotland.
Mr Mohammed has made a nice living of the back of fellow migrants.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-37803531
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Housing sensitive Muslim refugees in Scotland, a country where all the men wear skirts, was always going to be problematical. 
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