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War of Attrition | 18.07.2010 17:24 | Birmingham | Sheffield

This was Dudley 17 7 2010 could Bradford be next?

At least a couple of dozen houses, cars and local small businesses in Dudley town centre were yesterday attacked by demonstrators from the anti-Islamic English Defence League (EDL). Around two hundred EDL broke their way out of police cordons to carry out a frenzied attack on whatever was at hand. Asian businesses were no doubt a focus - a Balti restaurant was clearly singled out, as was a taxi. But the white working class population of Dudley also came under attack, including a white woman with a baby, who narrowly missed a brick that had smashed through her window.

Residents called urgently for police assistance and help in protecting their homes from further attack, but none came. Police just a few streets away, sauntering back from some sort of confrontation with the EDL, showed no interest in helping frightened residents. NPOIU cop Paul Mather, who was with them, was more concerned with crowing that Fitwatch had ‘missed the action’.

More 'action' was to come. At least four EDL were knocked down by a car, sustaining leg and head injuries. The driver had not stopped (he was probably terrified) and rumours abounded that it had been a deliberate attack by Muslims and that one of the EDL had died. As the six lay on the road being treated by paramedics other EDL pulled metal poles from a passing truck and vowed to ‘go get the Muslims’. They then fought running battles with police in an attempt to get there.

Clearly the police had not expected the EDL to be able to break out of the system of containment they had devised for them at Stafford Street car park. There was a mixture of six foot fencing, rows of riot police and dogs, and finally solid metal cordons that barred every exit road. But the crowd, which totalled around a thousand, tore down fencing and threw a hail of missiles at the riot police. The metal cordons defeated the EDL for a while though, until they found an unguarded way out through a block of flats, and a few hundred got clear to begin the rampage.

Meanwhile Muslim areas were in a form of lockdown. Riot police were tasked with keeping Muslim youth in Muslim areas and came down heavily on groups that ventured out. One lot of Asian youths were chased by riot police and hit with batons almost as soon as they set foot in town. Back in their own estates around a dozen of them were chased through the streets by no less than three van loads of Met police in riot gear.

A day later, tension is reported to still be high in Kates Hill, Dudley, with heavy policing and continuing rumours of EDL presence. The real danger is that, unless more non-Muslims get out to seriously oppose the EDL, this could develop into a real race conflict.

 http://fitwatch.org.uk/2010/07/edl-trash-houses-and-asian-businesses.html

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Er, yes!

18.07.2010 20:14

"The real danger is that, unless more non-Muslims get out to seriously oppose the EDL, this could develop into..."

The real danger is taking these losers and half-wits seriously! They are just a bunch of fucking muppets out to get attention.

And anyway its clear now that the ceiling for their numbers is about a thousand. Which is really shit and easy to deal with. If we had to, we can raise one hundred times that number! We can now swamp them at any time.

The EDL are officially a joke.



Frank Slaughter


If it's so easy, do it!

18.07.2010 21:22

If it's so easy to swamp the EDL and defeat them, go on , do it. At the moment, all I've witnessed on the streets is local communities being left terrorised with no opposition or solidarity. There maybe only small groups - in the hundreds - who are engaging in disorder, but ignoring them means ignoring the people who are being terrorised by them. Would you still think they were pathetic if they smashed your windows? Or your neighbours? They've effectively been ignored - the majority (not all) of the opposition has been utterly meaningless, They haven't gone away, their numbers haven't shrunk, and it is not acceptable we haven't challenged their behaviour.

witness


Wrong languge

18.07.2010 22:56

"They've effectively been ignored - the majority (not all) of the opposition has been utterly meaningless, They haven't gone away, their numbers haven't shrunk, and it is not acceptable we haven't challenged their behaviour."

It takes two to tango.

Why do what they clearly want us to do?

I just don't see how playing up for an organisation of pansy's and turncoats achieves anything. The edl are little more than a gang of unemployed, underachieving wife beating fools. Its a mistake to conflate them with being political. They are not!

They have a so-called wing called the casuals! You have to be around 40 years old to get what that means. So the joker who came up with that is 40 and still trying to get young boys out on the streets for a fight with the "paki's". What a loser! Is that the kind of 'political' fight you want to get involved with?

Bigger fish, bigger frying pans.

Jack


stop talking about race riots

19.07.2010 09:13

if the edl attack muslims and then the muslims hit back that's not a race riot - it's self-defence! but i agree that we need to show more solidarity with those under attack.

anti racist