The “Sikhs Against the EDL” campaign have today announced that they will be supporting the counter protest against the EDL in Walthamstow on Saturday 27th October 2012. The counter protest is being organised by a multi-cultural, multi-racial and multi-faith organisation known as “We Are Waltham Forest”, a broad-based network of local community groups, political organisations and trade unions. Their aim is to “celebrate diversity and oppose racism and fascism” and to show the EDL that they are not welcome in Walthamstow. The UK’s largest anti-fascism organisation, “Unite Against Fascism”, is also calling for a national mobilisation to support the “We Are Waltham Forest” demonstration.
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EDL to be banned from marching in Waltham Forest
A ban on the far-right English Defence League (EDL) marching in Waltham Forest this weekend is set to be announced later today.
The Metropolitan Police is believed to have applied to the Home Office for the group to be barred from demonstrating in the borough on Saturday over concerns for public safety.
The Guardian, the council and community group We Are Waltham Forest have campaign against the EDL returning to Waltham Forest following a demonstration in September.
The group was blocked from marching to a rally near the town hall by thousands of residents and anti-fascist groups.
An event celebrating the borough’s diversity in Walthamstow Town Square will still go ahead on Saturday.
EDL leader ‘Tommy Robinson’ remanded in prison on charge of entering US illegally
The EDL members released on bail after being arrested on Saturday– apparently en route to the East London Mosque – didn’t include EDL leader Stephen Lennon, who has been remanded in prison on a charge of entering the United States illegally. This arises from his visit to New York last month to speak at the so-called International Freedom Defense Congress organised by Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer’s Stop Islamization of Nations (SION).
Tommy Robinson and 53 EDL supporters held after police motorway sting
Fifty three members of English Defence League members were arrested on the M1 this afternoon whilst allegedly travelling to target a mosque London.
Members were said to have gathered in a pub in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, before boarding a furniture removal van. Police in riot vans pulled the van over after laying in wait for them on the motorway.
Among those arrested are EDL leader Tommy Robinson aka Stephen Yaxley Lennon and we also believe that Deputy leader Kevin Carroll who is also running for the Police commissioner’s position in Bedfordshire on behalf of the EDL’s political wing, the British Freedom Party has also been arrested as well as leader of the British Freedom Party, Paul Weston.
Far-right protesters storm French mosque
Dozens of far right extremists stormed atop an unfinished mosque in western France on Saturday to show their hostility toward it and denounce immigration that has brought millions of Muslims into the country, a regional official said.
About 70 protesters traveled from around France for Saturday morning’s demonstration in the city of Poitiers, which has symbolic meaning as the place where a French medieval ruler once drove away Arab invaders, regional prefect Yves Dassonville said by phone. After police arrived, the protesters dispersed without resistance – and three were detained to face accusations of “incitement of racial hatred” and damage to property, he said.
Call for EDL to be banned from marching in Waltham Forest
English Defence League thugs marching through Walthamstow on 1 September
An emergency motion has been passed to call for the English Defence League (EDL) to be banned from holding a march in the streets of Waltham Forest. The group is planning a march in the borough on Saturday, October 27, just weeks after it last held a demonstration in the area.
Last night Waltham Forest’s 60 councillors unanimouosly voted in favour of an emergency motion calling for the group to be banned from holding the march, with the motion saying the council would “take every appropriate legal action to prevent the EDL from marching here on October 27”.
Cllr Chris Robbins, leader of Waltham Forest Council, said: “This is not about the right to protest peacefully, this is about the EDL targeting our community less than 60 days after they last marched here.”
Uddin takes on Cox over sharia law bill
Peers clashed today over the role of Sharia law tribunals as they backed measures aimed at toughening rules on sex discrimination and domestic violence.
Fascists embrace Cristina Odone
The New Daily Patriot is a popular far-right Facebook page which provides links to media reports that are of interest to fascists. It supports both the English Defence League and the British National Party (while inclining more towards the latter) and happily promotes the activities of openly neo-Nazi groups like the National Front.
This non-sectarian approach extends to the sort of material that is recommended on the page, which includes articles by individuals who are not themselves racists or fascists but whose views provide support and inspiration for those who are. Today, for example, the NDP has posted a link to an appalling piece of crap that appeared on Cristina Odone’s Telegraph blog yesterday, in which she harshly criticises the elected leadership of the Muslim Council of Britain (who, as is the way with this sort of article, are inevitably described as “self-appointed”) for failing to condemn actions such as the recent reported beheading of a young Afghan woman by her in-laws for refusing to become a prostitute.
Anti-halal campaign comes to Bournemouth
A man is calling for all Bournemouth cafes and takeaways to be obliged to say whether their meat is slaughtered by Muslim rules.
Animal rights campaigner Gary Hazel claimed some of the methods used are “very cruel” and people should be able to make an informed choice.
Knifeman’s mosque attack wasn’t racist, says CPS
A judge slammed prosecutors today (Mon) for failing to charge a knifeman with racism after he screamed vile abuse at worshippers outside a mosque.
Jonathan Russell, 32, waved a blade at two men on their way to prayers before snarling: “Where’s Allah to protect you now?” But in a bizarre move, lawyers at the Crown Prosecution Service decided not to class the crime as racially motivated because they said he was “commenting generally”.