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ddraig said:
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You're watching +1 aren't you? :hmm:

I particularly liked the EDL member who had come down to 'get it on video' because they ones causing trouble were 'claiming' to be EDL but were 'nothing to do with' them...

IIUC The EDL don't have any official membership, so how the fuck can they disclaim anyone who claims to be part of them?
 
cantsin said:
and you want to blam this on 'Liberals '?????????
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does the things i've pointed out about ill-informed & misguided liberal knee-jerk assumptions/prejudices help, or hinder, attempts to defuse actual racial/ethnic tensions?

as i said earlier on this thread 'every little helps' - so it's the kind of shit that could be done without - no one's blaming liberals for things that racists do directly, but more often than not, they indirectly contribute to stoking racial tensions rather than attempting to defuse them

thankfully in lewisham last night, a small group of (all white) anti-cuts marchers who were on their way home after the march, stumbled upon a group of about 30 black youths who had mobilised looking for NF/BNP/EDL and were at that point being kettled by police. A few went over to hand out legal advice cards and the like and explain what the (predominantly white) march had actually been about and defused the rumours/speculation about the march itself being an NF/BNP/EDL one. They then began to tail on the other side of the road , what had become a moving kettle to move the group out of the area. The black kids then urged them to join them inside the kettle which they did and and that was probably 100 more times effective than the anti-cuts march itself - as it was real inter-communal intermingling not rah rah marching with megaphones and pointless platitudes
 
Great report LD maybe the idiots stirring racial tension online will think twice before posting omgomg the NF are marching.
 
Corax said:
You're watching +1 aren't you? :hmm:

I particularly liked the EDL member who had come down to 'get it on video' because they ones causing trouble were 'claiming' to be EDL but were 'nothing to do with' them...

IIUC The EDL don't have any official membership, so how the fuck can they disclaim anyone who claims to be part of them?
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yes apols
 
Corax said:
You're watching +1 aren't you? :hmm:

I particularly liked the EDL member who had come down to 'get it on video' because they ones causing trouble were 'claiming' to be EDL but were 'nothing to do with' them...

IIUC The EDL don't have any official membership, so how the fuck can they disclaim anyone who claims to be part of them?
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I picked-up on that too, and coughed up some bullshit.
 
Responses to videos
Vid 1: East Anglians are coming? Ooo arrr, ooo arrr. Will they bring a combine harvester?

Vid 2: Can't we blame the EDL for failing to train up the police in dealing with rioters over the last year?

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^^^I know I'm one for mis-spelling things, and think it's poor show by and large to criticise others for their spelling, but come on EDL, surely even you chaps and chappesses can spell Allah properly, no?

OK, enough of my "hilarity" - not too sure if anyone else has heard about this one - according to a mate of mine, who house-shares with some Bangladeshi guys on Commercial Road (in Tower Hamlets), the East London Mosque came under the attention of rioters when it was all kicking off in London, and was defended from attack by those attending it at the time (for Ramadan prayers and so on)...this mosque has managed to shake off any dubious/"radical" elements inside it a long while ago, and so is hardly a hotbed for wannabe Salafist idiots - but isn't this the one that the EDL want to march past? So we have a situation where this mosque is prepared to defend itself from any serious trouble (with no help from the police) - what's going to happen if these "patriots" decide to start something whilst marching past said place?

(This is not a call to ban said march, by the way - let the EDL have their march, and let them see how unloved/ineffective/useless etc they really are)
 
'OK, enough of my "hilarity" - not too sure if anyone else has heard about this one - according to a mate of mine, who house-shares with some Bangladeshi guys on Commercial Road (in Tower Hamlets), the East London Mosque came under the attention of rioters when it was all kicking off in London, and was defended from attack by those attending it at the time (for Ramadan prayers and so on)...this mosque has managed to shake off any dubious/"radical" elements inside it a long while ago, and so is hardly a hotbed for wannabe Salafist idiots -'

Are you absolutely sure of that?, try googling to see some of the latest invitations to speak at the ELM, Rainbow Tower Hamlets have even put it 'on probation' in relation to challenging homophobia...
 
treelover said:
'OK, enough of my "hilarity" - not too sure if anyone else has heard about this one - according to a mate of mine, who house-shares with some Bangladeshi guys on Commercial Road (in Tower Hamlets), the East London Mosque came under the attention of rioters when it was all kicking off in London, and was defended from attack by those attending it at the time (for Ramadan prayers and so on)...this mosque has managed to shake off any dubious/"radical" elements inside it a long while ago, and so is hardly a hotbed for wannabe Salafist idiots -'

Are you absolutely sure of that?, try googling to see some of the latest invitations to speak at the ELM, Rainbow Tower Hamlets have even put it 'on probation' in relation to challenging homophobia...
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Have you been reading Andrew Gilligan's blogs again, treelover?
 
treelover - having done a bit of reading (not just the Gilligan blog, obv), I can't say I'm wildly impressed with the East London Mosque's faffing around with regard to homophobia....but having said that, at least they've attempted some sort of dialogue with the LGBT community in TH, which is at least a start - not perfect, but a start. Doubtlessly Rainbow TH will remain on the case with them.

As for the wannabe Salafist element, I can see a lot of allegations being thrown around with regard to the East London Mosque, but nothing really substantial so far....(oops, have to go now, meeting on).
 
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