The anti-Islam English Defense League plans a massive European rally
Far-right anti-Islamic groups from ten European countries are planning to rally in Denmark on the last day of March, for what organizers are describing as the birth of a European movement.
The rally signals the further expansion of the English Defense League (EDL), the anti-Islamic group, which has become the most significant far-right force in the UK since the National Front in the 1970s, drawing 3,000 supporters to a March in Luton last year.
More than 10 anti-Islamic groups from across Europe are expected to send representatives, including the EDL’s eight sister “Defense Leagues."
Weyman Bennet, a spokesman for Unite Against Fascism, warned the march could lead to people being hurt.
"Everywhere they've called a demonstration there's been violence," he said. "Across Europe, the Sweden Democrats and the Danish People's Party, all of them are growing by using this rhetoric. We see them as a group of people who will try and encourage fascist politics. They've simply swapped anti-Semitism for anti-Islam." Mr Lennon, who was convicted of assault in November 2011 after head-butting another EDL member at a rally, said his members aimed to march in peace.
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Members of the right-wing English Defence League (EDL) shout at Islamist demonstrators
protesting outside the US embassy in London on Sept. 11, 2011 during a ceremony to mark
the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the United States. Around 50 people brandished
anti-US banners, chanted slogans and burnt a small piece of paper with a picture of the US flag on it.
The far-right "us vs them" folks never give up. We have our teabaggers who froth at the mouth about "Ground Zero Mosques" and "taking our country back" from Hispanics and other minority groups. Europe has its far-right EDL , Jobbik, Sweden Democrats and Danish People's Party, among others.