Sunday, December 6, 2009
English Defence League anti-Islamic protest leads to clashes with anti-fascist protesters, and police in Nottingham [Video]
Hundreds of anti-Islamist protesters took to the streets in Nottingham, England Saturday, clashing with a rival group of anti-fascist protesters, and police. Police made a small number of arrests. (Dec. 6)
About 500 protesters from the English Defence League (EDL), many with their faces covered with scarves and hooded tops, marched through Nottingham yesterday decrying Allah and shouting: "We want our country back".
Other protesters waved Union Flags, St George's flags and placards which read: "Protect Women, No To Sharia" and "No Surrender".
Mounted police used batons to keep back some of the demonstrators and police dog handlers were also deployed to contain the crowd.
There were brief scuffles between EDL members and a small group of Asian students who were waving a Pakistani flag.
Earlier in the day thousands of Christmas shoppers gathered to watch 500 soldiers from the 2nd Battalion The Mercian Regiment march through the city.
The homecoming parade followed a six-month tour of duty in the Helmand province of Afghanistan where the regiment lost five soldiers and dozens of its men were injured.
The EDL claims it is not a racist organisation and has no links with the British National Party, but a counter-protest was mounted by Unite Against Fascism.
James Newton, from Nottinghamshire Stop The BNP, said: "The reason we're here is because we believe the EDL is clearly a racist organisation."
One EDL member, a serving soldier who declined to be named, said of the student protest: "I look at their protest and there's a Pakistani flag flying with a Muslim symbol. They're protesting against the troops and it's anti-British. I'm not a fascist, I'm not a Nazi but I am British."
Telegraph
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It seems that people are at last waking up to the danger of islam and the threat it presents to the civilized world.It is not a peaceful religion,in fact it isn't a religion,more of a political ideolgy dedicated to dragging the world back into medieval times.Any non state actor that explicitly threatens to kill(and often does)in order to attain it's ends is considered a terrorist organisation so why is islam treated as a religion when it so clearly fits the bill of a terorist organisation.when are those purblind imbeciles who call themselves a government going wake up and smell the coffee.
one solution may be the time honoured practice of boycott.If we just stop doing business with muslims,don't go into a muslim business,don't spend good money sponsoring terrorist,stuff their taxis curry houses etc refuse to deal with muslim doctors civil servants and so on.Its quite posssible that non action may make the point better than active resistance.If anyone can expand on that idea please reply.
In the mean time I'll watch the government using tax money to sponsor terrorism and then having the cheek to ask for another £
4 billion to protect me from the consequences of paying to have muslims here in the first place.
I hope sites like yours will help wake people up to the threat of islam
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