The EDL is a nationalist, islamophobic RACIST organisation

The EDL is a nationalist, islamophobic RACIST organisation | 31.10.2009 18:50 | Sheffield

The election of two British National Party (BNP) candidates in the June elections to the European Parliament was the first national election success for fascists in British history. We have already seen some of the consequences of the BNP’s election. There has been increased BNP media coverage including the BBC announcing it would invite Nick Griffin, the leader of the BNP to appear on Question Time.

The EDL is a nationalist, islamophobic RACIST organisation

Even more concerning, is a dramatic rise in overtly anti-Muslim demonstrations of The EDL using slogans like ‘No more Mosques’, and racist and Islamophobic attacks including murders of Muslim people. As Ken Livingstone and John Denham MP said, such demonstrations are reminiscent of fascist demonstrations against Jewish communities in the 1930s.

31 10 09 The English Defence League hold a rally. The EDL is a nationalist, islamophobic organisation formed earlier this year and are widely viewed as racist. Most of their propaganda plays on misconceptions of UK foreign and domestic policy fuelled by the main-stream media. They claim to be standing up for the British armed forces, who are correctly criticised for waging an imperialist war of aggression against the populations of Iraq and Afghanistan. Many people view this as a weak excuse for a group of assorted xenophobes to promote their cause.

The EDL is a nationalist, islamophobic RACIST organisation

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Ho hum

31.10.2009 19:03

more posh twat tomfoolery

Daddy's own hallam

Isn't that Michael Heaton and Liam Pinker of comedy-nazi buffoons the BFF

31.10.2009 19:04

in 5th photo from bottom?

aka Wigless Mike and Pino88

lufc antifascist

Poor thugs, I guess when youve been banned from stadiums being used by Rightwing

31.10.2009 20:02

extremists from Cambridge gives you a chubby. You should be put in with Alqueda & any dictators on your own private island in the artic, maybe Hitler or a cyrogenically preserved Henry Ford will be there to great you in a dalek suit

James

Nicked pic

31.10.2009 20:39

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