This is not going to be a rant about the opinions of the EDL, because personally, I find their views so primitive and narrow-minded that I'm not even going to bother justifying why they are disgusting, and besides, any EDL supporters that read this will just come out with the whole "They should get back to Pakistan!" (As obviously, Pakistan is the ONLY Asian country) or "They're taking our jobs!" (Not that they took jobs that were available to everyone, which you were too lazy to bother doing).
I'm not the next Omar Bakri Muhammad or anything but come on, take a fucking Valium or something.
Anyway, the point of this is that I do not understand why anyone would be supportive of the latest demo in Luton. Now, I do not know what actually happened at this demo but I do know that the intention (& it is the intention that matters) of the EDL campaigners was to smash up a local Muslim community, you know, throwing bricks through windows etc.
Now, I can't be sure but my subjective guess would be that these campaigners did not bother researching just which of these Muslims were illegal immigrants and legal, they did not enquire as to whether they were "stealin' our jobs" or whether they actually had their own business (not to be stereotypical but a lot of Muslims own their OWN shops, takeaways and restaurants, therefore are providing us a service and not, as EDL-ers put it, stealing anything).
No, they just intended to smash them all up, regardless of whether that individual had done anything that they disagreed with. I need not even mention that there could have been babies and children in these gardens or houses, innocents that could have gotten injured or even killed in the midst of all the violence.
Whatever, if you have a fascist state of mind than by all means scream your opinions from the rooftops, we are a state of free speech after all. However, mindless violence is wrong, no matter what your views on immigration are.
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You're missing a few points about the EDL,
"The English Defence League (EDL) is a far-right street protest movement which opposes what it sees as the spread of Islamism, Sharia law and Islamic extremism in England"
The main point is it's not about taking jobs or about illegal/legal migrants, the EDL's key focus is on "Sharia law" now Sharia law is the law by which Muslims are supposed to abide by as dictated in the Qur'an except there is one major problem:
"Modernists, traditionalists and fundamentalists all hold different views of Sharia, as do adherents to different schools of Islamic thought and scholarship. Different countries and cultures have varying interpretations of Sharia as well."
This problem leaves gaps in the law for what is right and wrong and the meaning of right and wrong can literally change from person to person and it's acceptable by Muslim standards.
Now my point is that the EDL aren't so much about 'lets get them back home' they're more about 'if your going to live here then live by British Laws'
And as far as the Luton march is concerned, the MDL (Muslim defence league)actually attempted to start trouble with the peaceful demonstrations of the EDL so i don't thinks its fair to say the EDL are there to cause trouble as this recent march was actually coordinated by the police and there was 2000 officers there to man the operation.
And finally, about bricks being thrown through windows etc:
1) That didn't happen in Luton, as the march was in the city centre and manned by police.
2) Over 5000 people go to these marches, some are real EDL members, some are not, so obviously some protesters are going to be a bit more enthusiastic and passionate then others and will cause trouble and may even go there with the sole intention of causing trouble.
But doesn't that happen at every protest?
Just look at the Manchester student protest last week, the vast majority were there to peacefully demonstrate but still a small minority were hell bent on causing trouble, and did.
Carlos http://ithappenedovernight.blogspot.com
That's all very correct Carlos but I think the point Dani was making was more based on the absurdity of the EDL than anything else. If any of their members truly believe Sharia Law is at all a threat to Britain at this time then they're morons. Luton was just an example and as Dani said she only knew their intent not what actually took place that day.
Carlos, I am fully aware of the EDL's policies, like I said, I'm not here to challenge their opinions. I disagree with them. But that wasn't what the blog was about.
The intellectuals BEHIND EDL can articulately state their opinions and whatever, they're entitled to them.
But the majority of EDL supporters do not even know that Sharia law IS, they're just 19 year old football fans who are sick of "fuckin pakis" being in "our" country.
So yes, while EDL may be exactly what you said it is, neo-EDL supporters are by and large not intelligent enough to understand their own policies.
That was so badly worded. In a nutshell I meant that the founders of EDL are probably very intelligent people who have solid opinions about things such as Sharia law (& yes I know what it is).
However, a lot of teenage racists become aware of the fact that the EDL doesn't like Muslims and jumps on this, using the EDL as an excuse to wage war on Muslim communities.
And that, unfortunately, is what most young EDL followers do.
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