ENGLISH DEFENCE LEAGUE
No masking football’s ability to up the anti
- The Times
- Published: 29 October 2010
- Simon Barnes
...the road that leads back to football. As I read the disquieting interview with Stephen Lennon, founder of the English Defence League (EDL) in The Times this week, so I waited for the moment when we came up against football. It happened in the...
Charges after clashes at English Defence League demonstration
- The Times
- Published: 25 January 2010
- UK News
...right protesters after clashes broke out at an anti-Islamic protest.The violence flared after members of the English Defence League (EDL) descended on Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire for the latest in a series of demonstrations. Seventeen...
Far-right group, the English Defence League, in disarray after Birmingham fracas
- The Times
- Published: 10 August 2009
- UK News
...violence and 35 arrests. The English Defence League staged a march near the Bullring...was a shambles and you made us English look like an embarrassment. What...police spokesman explained that the English Defence League had not informed...
Dozens arrested as anti-Muslim English Defence League protestors battle rivals
- The Times
- Published: 20 March 2010
- Crime
...and armed with batons, separated supporters of the English Defence League (EDL) and members of Unite Against Fascism (UAF...protester Stuart Rogers, 31, from Bolton, draped in the English flag, said he was there “to support England...
Rabbi calls EDL ‘patriots of England’ at pro-Israel rally in London
- The Times
- Published: 25 October 2010
- UK News
More than 250 English Defence League protesters demonstrated in London yesterday in support of Israel’s fight against militant Islam. In front of the gates of...
Extreme danger
- The Times
- Published: 27 October 2010
- Letters to the Editor
...on the historical context in both the interview (Oct 25) with Stephen Lennon, the leader and founder of the English Defence League (EDL), and in Jon Cruddas’s Opinion (Oct 25). We are endlessly told that we have been through the worst...
Failure to get balance right could start to erode our democracy
- The Times
- Published: 25 October 2010
- UK News
...to be kept safe is a greater priority can be a difficult call. The tendency for demonstrations planned by the English Defence League (EDL) to end in violence puts the police and councils in the firing line of deciding whether future EDL marches...
We need a defence against this violent militia
- The Times
- Published: 25 October 2010
- Columnists
...links between this church and the English Defence League. Indeed, we find links between...dispossession but anchored in English male working-class...much bigger future battle around English identity. Government has attempted...
Far-right extremists pelt police with bricks in Leicester
- The Times
- Published: 09 October 2010
- Crime
...upon Leicester yesterday to demonstrate against Islamic fundamentalism. The prospect of violence between the English Defence League, counter-protesters from Unite Against Fascism, and Leicester residents prompted the city’s largest policing...
Bradford fears worst as protesters threaten to smash anti-Islam rally
- The Times
- Published: 28 August 2010
- UK News
...largest Pakistani communities. The English Defence League’s action comes nine years after...appropriate way to oppose the English Defence League have led to a split between...politicians and faith leaders. English Defence League The organisation...
Missiles thrown as far-right rally turns violent in Bradford
- The Times
- Published: 28 August 2010
- UK News
...police and anti-fascist demonstrators today as an English Defence League rally in Bradford descended into violence. The missiles...as previously witnessed during marches in other English cities, that many of those attached to the movement...
Atticus
- The Sunday Times
- Published: 01 November 2009
- Comment
...hunting ground to find Islam’s Mr Right The English Defence League, which is a sort of BNP-lite, has sprung from...So it’s rather a surprise to visit the league’s web forum and find an advert for Muslima...
Doing the extremists’ dirty work
- The Times
- Published: 07 December 2009
- Columnists
On Saturday, members of the so-called English Defence League fought police during an anti-Muslim march in Nottingham...native White Anglo-Saxon Protestant definition of English society, so Islamist groups such as Hizb ut-Tahrir...
Five arrested in Glasgow as protests clash
- The Sunday Times
- Published: 15 November 2009
- UK News
...marched through the city under the banner Scotland United in opposition to the Scottish Defence League (SDL), an offshoot of the English Defence League holding an “antiIslamist” demonstration. A large police presence, designed...
Arrests as rival race demonstrations clash
- The Times
- Published: 10 October 2009
- UK News
...Police have arrested 34 people amid tense scenes at an anti-Islamic demonstration in central Manchester. The English Defence League (EDL), which opposes “radical Muslims” and Sharia Law, staged the protest, but the anti...
Right-wing protesters fail to disrupt pro-Palestinian march
- The Times
- Published: 14 September 2009
- Crime
...wing protesters failed in their attempts to disrupt a pro-Palestinian march in central London on Sunday.The English Defence League, an anti-Islam fringe group, sought to confront an annual pro-Palestinian march through the city, but only...
News in brief
- The Sunday Times
- Published: 11 October 2009
- UK News
...rival crowds as dozens of people were arrested at an anti-Islamic demonstration in central Manchester. The English Defence League, which opposes “radical Muslims” and sharia, or Islamic law, staged the protest, while Unite...
Past problems suggested Birmingham protest would turn into a riot
- The Times
- Published: 07 September 2009
- Crime
...group opposed to Islamic law and what it perceives as radical Islam. Or at least that is how the right-wing English Defence League (EDL) would have liked Saturday’s demonstration to be received.But many had their doubts. Chief...
Unmasked: the new face of English extremism
- The Times
- Published: 24 October 2010
- UK News
...and local councils “pander” to multiculturalism. In a declaration of “war” with Islamic extremism, the English Defence League has vowed to step up its campaign of hardline protests likely to cause violence on the streets of Britain. The group...
‘There's a lot of anger. It's about to explode'
- The Times
- Published: 25 October 2010
- Politics
...Party (BNP) member is the founder and leader of the English Defence League (EDL), a far-right group that is forging links...Lennon reels off perceived injustices heaped on the English working class because of “failed” multiculturalism...
Luton: a town torn by extremists
- The Times
- Published: 25 October 2010
- Politics
...connection to the area — had already been linked to far-right groups. Many became the founding members of the English Defence League. A street away from the club’s Kenilworth Road stadium is Bury Park, the heart of Luton’s thriving Muslim...
Joan McAlpine: Fascism, not Islam, is our true enemy
- The Sunday Times
- Published: 08 November 2009
- UK News
...itself the Scottish Defence League (SDL). It...an offshoot of the English Defence League (EDL...the Scottish Defence League, like its English counterpart, has...The Scottish and English Defence Leagues employ the same approach...
News in brief
- The Sunday Times
- Published: 10 October 2010
- National
...35, 39 and 46, with lucky stars 6 and 8. Rally violence Missiles were thrown at police when the right-wing English Defence League and its opponents, Unite Against Fascism, held protests yesterday in Leicester, prompting the city’s largest...
Six arrested after Koran is burnt on 9/11
- The Times
- Published: 24 September 2010
- Crime
...Afghanistan” and “F*** the Koran”. Some of those involved are believed to be supporters of the far-Right English Defence League (EDL). A video of the incident was later posed on YouTube under the heading “Chris + EDL + Miller + Gateshead...
Home Office bans marches in Luton fearing clashes over Muslims
- The Times
- Published: 22 August 2009
- UK News
...Office granted the order after reports that the English and Welsh Defence League planned a march in the town next weekend to protest...some injuries in Birmingham after supporters of the League clashed with Unite Against Fascism. The order...