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English Defence League Armed Forces Division attack British Muslims

Anon | 10.08.2010 17:38 | Anti-racism | Repression | Social Struggles | South Coast | World

The English Defence League are a modern ultra Islamophobic and racist organisation with strong links to the British Armed Forces. The English Defence League [EDL] have an EDL Armed Forces Division. The EDL have goaded and attacked British Muslims across the UK. They have placed pig heads on Mosques, pulled off Muslim women's clothes and attacked communities.














The English Defence League have rioted across the UK and have closed down towns and cities in doing so. Many of the EDL members are serving soldiers and the stewards at EDL events are from the MOD.

The EDL have displayed "Support Our Troops" flags on demos and have claimed that they are against "Islamic extremism". What many people don't yet realise is that our serving soldiers are attacking ordinary, innocent, law abiding, British Muslims who are British civilians in the name of the EDL and our Armed Forces.
What they are doing is not much different to Hitlers stormtroopers.

The EDL have encouraged the support of extreme right wing racists ie Dean Smith [Blood and Honour], Wayne Baldwin a neo Nazi pictured with EDL shirts alongside a swastika and others. We have found swastikas, BNP flyers and Israel flags in the facebook photo albums of serving British soldiers. It seems that active and extreme racism and Islamophobia among our troops is not being discouraged but being encouraged.

The UK is ambroiled in illegal wars with Afghanistan and Iraq. "Women's rights" was used as an excuse to invade Afghanistan. "Womens rights" is now being used to gain support against Iran. "Women's rights" is being used by the EDL here in the UK to gain support for the EDL but it is the EDL who are attacking Muslim women and pulling off their clothes. The EDL are attacking British Muslims to stir up Islamophobic hatred and gain support for illegal wars and invasions. The EDL are against pro Palestine demonstraters. The Home Cavalry made death threat gestures at protesters in Knights bridge, London.

There is little support in the UK for the UK / USA wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and the occupation of Palestine by Israel. The British Armed Forces believe that the British public hate and blame them for the wars. We blame the government.

British Muslims believe wrongly that "all white people hate them". Nothing can be further from the truth. Most white people despise the EDL. The EDL have tried to goad and incite Muslim youth and political activists. They want control orders implemented etc on Muslims. The EDL have chanted "Allah, Allah, who the fuck is Allah", "Allah is a peado", "burn down the Mosques" etc on demos to incite people.


The EDL have done nothing to gain public support for our troops, quite the opposite in fact. The EDL have done our troops no favours. The EDL have, worse still, put the photos, names etc of serving soldies on facebook where anyone, teenagers, every Tom Dick Harry and real terrorists can find the information. Stop the EDL. The EDL are a national disgrace and are not supported by the majority of people in the UK.

The pictures here are from the EDL Armed forces Division facebook page which was closed when they realised that half of the facebook profiles were fake. The pictures of soldiers are unfortunately real. We haven't posted most of them here because unlike the EDL we support the decent majority of soldiers, sailors and pilots etc in our Armed Forces.

Anon

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This is pic of an EDL man from the Army.

10.08.2010 17:48


The one in the middle is EDL. His name is Gareth.

anon


picof edl army man

10.08.2010 18:08

if we need anymore proof here it is in this pic this man is without doubt a racist facist nartzi love the way they photo shopped those two black lads into the pic more edl propoganda failed

anon


muslims are not a problem

10.08.2010 18:09

muslims are not the problem, it`s banks and unemployment, that are the problem, why aren`t the EDL protesting against banks, lots of muslims fought alongside us in the second world war,there was no muslim ss division in the second world war, the EDL are falling for racist myths like grooming in keighley and bradford, that doesen`t even exist, no-go areas don`t exist,racist attacks against whites do not happen it`s all bnp lies, this is how fascists work they divide our communities and play on people fears

weyman bennett


EDL = treason

10.08.2010 18:16

EDL = Economic treason
EDL = facebook leaks
EDL = racist


Stop the EDL!

anon


Photshop? Do you think that there are no black people in the Army or something?

10.08.2010 18:27

There are black people in the army dimwit and there are black people in the EDL.

anon


These photos prove NOTHING

10.08.2010 18:49

These photos prove nothing. We have photos of EDL supporters waving flags, and we have photos of soldiers with EDL slogans added onto the pictures afterwards on someone's computer. Show us more than one photo of a serving soldier (with regimental badges and a weapon - not just some fantasist in Army surplus camo gear) actually holding an EDL banner and you might have the beginnings of a valid point

EDL r twats


Seems like

10.08.2010 19:33

indymedia is one of the only places that's helping to keep the edl alive .. why I'll never know.

free


To the last poster

10.08.2010 19:46

The bottom four photos are all of the same man. Holding an EDL banner, on an EDL protest and in Army uniform.

The other photos were taken from EDL rallies. The men in them are EDL and in the Army photos too.

anon


Re : It's the only thing keeping EDL alive...

10.08.2010 20:21

They're reading it more than anyone else apparently.

anon


To the person who says that this proves nothing

10.08.2010 21:17

The EDL forum shows that the EDL have said that Indymedia has put pictures of their mates on indymedia and called Indymedia cnuts. So it proves that the poster is telling the truth. The word cnuts is theirs as they are not allowed to swear on the forum.

Students against the EDL!!

anon


Wishful thinking.

10.08.2010 22:51

I doubt there are that many soldiers that support the EDL. Maybe a few idiots and some chavvy racist kids in basic training, but thats all.

I think the EDL "Armed Forces Division" represents a desire by them to appear to have mass support from all walks of life. The same way they have a "LGBT" division and a "Sikh" division at the same time as the walls of their facebook groups are covered with posts about "dirty pakis".


Its all smoke and mirrors, the EDL is a couple of thousand football hooligans and racists with a shitload of keyboard warriors giving it on the internet.

Anthony Bampot
mail e-mail: hugorune1976@hotmail.co.uk
- Homepage: http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/group.php?gid=149548151727350


Good grief!

10.08.2010 23:05

Sorry about this but I don't see what the OP is trying to prove here!

Of course there are loonies in the army. The army spends most of its time recruiting losers and morons that cant get a job. Why on earth do you think they take so much pleasure holding their guns like that? For these young men, war is a game. They join the army because they think it will be an adventure.

Its only when they arrive home minus their legs, arms or balls does the reality of it all sink in...the reality of being a cripple for the rest of your life. A cripple that fought for the right of an arms smuggler or politician to buy his mistress a mink coat!

We shouldn't be getting at these young men. They are young and very foolish and their mistakes in life cost them more than they can afford to pay. Its not their fault they don't understand the reality of the world they live in.

If they knew that, we'd all be knee deep in the carcases of politicians and BBC employees by now.

Take some free advice OP, lay off the army, stop publicising the EDL and concentrate on issues that will actually make a difference.

Ending the war would be a good start!

T


The person who thinks that these men are not EDL....

10.08.2010 23:50




They are. Here's the proof. You want EDL flag holding? Here you are.

anon


The pics came from EDL

11.08.2010 00:42

EDL computers.

anon


Not a shred of proof

11.08.2010 01:28

Not a shred of proof... beyond the fact that just ONE of the squaddies pictured here looks A BIT like one of the guys in the EDL photos.

Anyway, that nonsense on Indymedia about EDL's Trevor Kelway being "gay" was linked to by TK on Facebook, and Indymedia's been referenced again and again by that fat pillock Jeff Marsh (aka "Joe Casuals" aka Arrylad aka Arryedl) - showing who it is from EDL that trolls Indymedia

French Army Muslim Anti-Fascists...

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTHxSdgzprY

British Army Muslim Anti-Fascists...

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjncXxy84yo

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fm5oTpJ4vPI

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSFrDGtvUlE

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FxkU9ZcVc8


Get Real


don't even think they're english

11.08.2010 10:42

I don't normally comment on indymedia, but an ex squaddie I know took one look at the pic of 'gareth' and the two black guys and said that they're americans, or at least their kit (in particular the rifle) is.

anon too


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