… just wish I could see a few contemporaries on this side of the Atlantic:
The EDL originated from a group known as the “United Peoples of Luton“, which itself was formed in response to a March 2009 protest against Royal Anglian Regiment troops returning from the Afghan War[13] organised by the Islamist group Al-Muhajiroun and including members of the group Ahlus Sunnah wal Jamaah.[14]
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American talk radio host Michael Savage became the first popular media figure to publicly announce support for the EDL, stating, “How does England take the Islamofascists spitting on their war dead, without letting the English Defence League wade into them with pipes and beer bottles, I’ll never understand”.[134] Erick Stakelbeck, a terrorism analyst and commentator for Pat Robertson‘s Christian Broadcasting Network, also expressed support for the EDL and compared its members to the members of the American Tea Party movement as being “mostly non-political average guys, many of them working class, who are fed up with their government’s encouragement of destructive policies”.[135]
(Ref: English Defense League, Wikipedia)
Ref. prior post: A State Can Never Lead … in search of William Wallace
