EDL watch

[malatesta32]

if you're uncomfortable with the logo, tippex it out. but watch those fumes!

 

[barney_pig]

Still a scab?

 

[Mr.Bishie]

The violent ex-leader of the far right English Defence League is set to give talks on tolerance to schoolchildren.
Tommy Robinson – a convicted thug, fraudster and football hooligan – is due to begin his tour within days.
But the decision to let him into the classroom has sparked fury with the public.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-new...nt-ex-edl-leader-3020041#.UtSJY9oQOq4.twitter

wtf? Is this true?

 

[CNT36]

The missus signed us up for lectures and films etc at the nearest university for a year. A lecture that we booked last night was entitled -

"Islam, Democracy & Politics - Wider Implications of the Arab Spring"

When I looked it up later it is by a senior researcher at Quilliam Sheikh Dr. Usama Hasan.

 

[butchersapron]

That's the bloke under serious attack from fundies - has even had a fatwa put out on him. A death one.

 

[CNT36]

That's the bloke under serious attack from fundies - has even had a fatwa put out on him. A death one.

Cheers. I'll have a look into it in a bit.

 

[CNT36]

I think I'll sit at the back. Just in case.

 

[butchersapron]

Here we go.

 

[CNT36]

Here we go.

Thanks all i'd found so far was this. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/mar/06/usama-hasan-london-imam-death-threats-evolution

 

[CNT36]

From Butchers' link

This is perhaps the most extreme reaction there has ever been to an article on Comment is free:

 

[malatesta32]

For someone who considers yourself qualified to write a book on anti fascism, you show an amazing lack of knowledge about virtually everything, and especially to do with the history of anti fascism

It's like 'went the day well' with our resident anti fascist expert

barney, 'irony: when the intended meaning is the exact opposite of its literal meaning.' stop trying too hard, you big daft gowk.

 

[malatesta32]

robinson skool thing cancelled.
"Thank you for your email. I understand that this visit has been cancelled and the school is reviewing its policies and protocols on visits from outside speakers.
Yours sincerely
Dr Clare Mills
Senior Parliamentary Assistant to Rt. Hon. Sir Alan Beith, MP for Berwick upon Tweed

 

[articul8]

Hmm.. this is a tricky one - the London media has been reporting that the Muslim Brotherhood (exiled Egyptians?) have set up an office in a disused shop in Cricklewood NW London. The EDL have apparently called a national? demo there for this Saturday.

Obviously we don't want the EDL thinking they can mobilise unimpeded in an area with lots of muslims. At the same time, there can't be any suggestion that any counter-demo has any political sympathy with the MB....

 

[butchersapron]

We?

 

[articul8]

we, residents of Brent - a multicultural, largely working class borough in inner London

 

[articul8]

rumours it's this crowd instead:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britain_First

 

[Limerick Red]

It is Britain First not the EDL, its not a national Demo. The residents of Brent have no interest in defending the far right from the far right!

 

[butchersapron]

we, residents of Brent - a multicultural, largely working class borough in inner London

How did you get elected to speak for them? To tell us on here what they want?

 

[butchersapron]

we, residents of Brent - a multicultural, largely working class borough in inner London

...and no

there can't be any suggestion that any counter-demo has any political sympathy with the MB....

doesn't this suggest something else? That it's not a we at all?

 

[articul8]

It is Britain First not the EDL, its not a national Demo. The residents of Brent have no interest in defending the far right from the far right!

I'm not talking about defending the MB - I'm talking about not allowing muslim-hating nazis parade around like they own the place.

 

[articul8]

doesn't this suggest something else? That it's not a we at all?

does it?

 

[butchersapron]

I'm not talking about defending the MB - I'm talking about not allowing muslim-hating nazis parade around like they own the place.

Didn't you use to work in some branch of PR? If so, why cannot you grasp what's going on here?

 

[butchersapron]

does it?

Of course it does - it suggest that those not bothered about or sympathetic to the MB are not part of your we - a we identified as everyone in the area. It's pretty fascistic to be honest. But tht's what happens when you jump on the bandwagon with no knowledge or fucking anything.

 

[articul8]

Didn't you use to work in some branch of PR? If so, why cannot you grasp what's going on here?

some branch of PR? No - never.

 

[articul8]

pretty fascistic to be honest. .

 

[butchersapron]

some branch of PR? No - never.

Yeah, right.

 

[articul8]

My "we" is people who don't want far right thugs whipping up islamophobia.

 

[articul8]

all sensible patriots welcome apparently:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=391397244338876

 

[butchersapron]

My "we" is people who don't want far right thugs whipping up islamophobia.

So not your previous 'we'

we, residents of Brent - a multicultural, largely working class borough in inner London

 

[butchersapron]

all sensible patriots welcome apparently:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=391397244338876

Oh god. The whole point is to make you panic like this.