The English Defence League (EDL), the
British far right anti-Muslim fascist organisation has been carrying out
a campaign of terror on Muslims in UK. The hate preaching extremist
organisation which only targets Muslims has carried out arson attacks on
mosques and other Muslim owned businesses over the past few months.
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| Hooded street activists of EDL |
In many parts of Britain, Muslims are
effectively under siege and numerous attacks have been carried out in
Hemel Hampstead, Leicester, Scunthorpe, Stoke and Kingston. Muslims are
routinely being spat and abused in the street. Apart from daily verbal
abuse, incidents of physical assault on Muslims are on the rise. The EDL
thugs have fire-bombed many Muslim shops and in one incident a Muslim
cemetery was desecrated.
Most of these outrageous acts were not
even reported in the British media and Muslims have received no words of
consolation from a cabinet minister.
The EDL (with a current membership of
about 82,000) promotes Islamohobic attacks on Muslims by demos and
marches on the streets claims that Muslims are trying to infiltrate the
British government institutions and take over the country within a span
of 10-20 years.
When the EDL held its march in Luton (a
town in the north of London) on last February, Muslim families living
there closed their businesses and went indoors for fear of being
attacked. The march also coincided with David Cameron, the British Prime
Minister’s speech at an international security conference in Munich,
Germany. In the speech, Mr Cameron condemned Muslims who believe in
Islam as an ideology or a political system and said rejecting violence
does not exclude such individuals out of the fold of extremists.
Mr Cameron called on the Muslims to
embrace the British values of freedom, democracy and equal rights as if
the vast majority of them did not do so already. He insisted Muslim
extremism is not driven by British and US wars of aggression in the
Muslim world but by an ‘extremist ideology’. He never mentioned what was
happening in Luton on that very moment but grotesquely compared
non-violent Islamists to ‘rightwing fascists’ warning that there would
be a strict checklist of Muslim bodies the government would not now work
with or fund.
Mr Cameron’s speech has been hailed by
far right organisations such as the British National Party (BNP), whose
leader Nick Griffin called it a ‘huge leap for our ideas into the
political mainstream’. In recent months, BNP have increasingly switched
the focus of their hatred from Jews and migrants in general to Muslims.
EDL activists were jubilant saying ‘Cameron had come round to our way of
thinking’.
Tommy Robinson, the EDL leader who wears
a bullet proof vest when he is in public for fear of being targeted by
liberals and leftists has recently been interviewed on Australian Radio
on 21 March 2011. He was asked about the possibility of them getting rid
of the ‘Muslim extremists’ in Britain and the remaining Muslims living
within English law rather than sharia, he replied that Islam is
a religion that needs to be ‘reformed’ and they want that to happen,
they also want Muslims to ‘integrate’ into the society.
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Written by: Ibrahim Nazim
4 April 2011, Monday
30 Raby` al-THaany 1432
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