Green Energy
Telegraph:
Right-wing group clashes with Muslims in Luton
Scores of police had to break up clashes between members of the right-wing English Defence League (EDL) and Muslims in Luton town centre on Thursday.
By Stephen Adams
Published: 12:27AM BST 23 Jul 2010
Trouble flared after Kevin Carroll, 41, lost at appeal at Luton Crown Court to overturn a conviction for using threatening behaviour at an earlier demonstration.
Up to 80 officers had to keep a group of Carroll's supporters, chanting 'EDL', separate from opposition protesters.
During the violence objects including ashtrays and a knife were thrown.
Carroll had objected to Muslim demonstrators who had shouted abuse at British soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, The Royal Anglian Regiment, during a homecoming parade in the town in March last year.
They had shouted "British soldiers go to hell" and called them "butchers of Basra".
Carroll verbally retaliated, swearing at the protesters and singing "bin Laden's mother is a whore".
He was charged and subsequently convicted of using threatening words and behaviour likely to to cause fear harassment and alarm. He was given a conditional discharge.
Following his failed appeal, he told a crowd of supporters that people like him were being "treated like enemies of the state".
He said: "Thank you patriots and people of our great democracy for supporting me.
"God Bless our Troops, God save the Queen."
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Green Energy
Telegraph:
Right-wing group clashes with Muslims in Luton
Scores of police had to break up clashes between members of the right-wing English Defence League (EDL) and Muslims in Luton town centre on Thursday.
By Stephen Adams
Published: 12:27AM BST 23 Jul 2010
Trouble flared after Kevin Carroll, 41, lost at appeal at Luton Crown Court to overturn a conviction for using threatening behaviour at an earlier demonstration.
Up to 80 officers had to keep a group of Carroll's supporters, chanting 'EDL', separate from opposition protesters.
During the violence objects including ashtrays and a knife were thrown.
Carroll had objected to Muslim demonstrators who had shouted abuse at British soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, The Royal Anglian Regiment, during a homecoming parade in the town in March last year.
They had shouted "British soldiers go to hell" and called them "butchers of Basra".
Carroll verbally retaliated, swearing at the protesters and singing "bin Laden's mother is a whore".
He was charged and subsequently convicted of using threatening words and behaviour likely to to cause fear harassment and alarm. He was given a conditional discharge.
Following his failed appeal, he told a crowd of supporters that people like him were being "treated like enemies of the state".
He said: "Thank you patriots and people of our great democracy for supporting me.
"God Bless our Troops, God save the Queen."
- Mass Brawl Between Right-wing Group And Anti-fascists As Race Riots Spill Onto Streets Of Birmingham
UPDATE: OOPS! The story I posted from the Daily Mail, which I will leave at the bottom of this post, was actually a story from a month ago. Here, from the London Times is the story of the clashes in Birmingham just a couple days ago. No photos included....
- Extreme Muslims Clash With Moderate Muslims In Luton?
Apparently so: The Muslim community turned on extremists in their midst yesterday, telling them they were 'sick and tired' of their behaviour.The angry confrontation came in Luton, where anti-Islamist protesters brandished England flags last...
- Nine Arrested After Masked Mob's March Against Muslim Extremists Turns Violent
The dude in the second photo, who looks to be choking a policeman, can expect to go to prison. That will not be a very pleasant experience for him. From the Daily Mail: Nine people have been arrested after hundreds of anti-Islamist protesters clashed...
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