Tower Hamlets Anti-EDL demo on 7th Sep

[GiantMonkeyMan]

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On the 7th of September join anti-fascists (including me :) ) stopping the EDL from marching in Tower Hamlets!


ONCE AGAIN THE ENGLISH DEFENCE LEAGUE ( EDL ) ARE INTENDING ON MARCHING THROUGH TOWER HAMLETS. ONCE AGAIN WE WILL OPPOSE THEM ON THE STREETS.

Before the killing of British Army solider Lee Rigby in Woolwich, the EDL were a spent force, with the organisation losing its momentum. After the killing, the EDL has grown, exploiting public outrage to swell their demonstrations.

The EDL see themselves as a patriotic, nationalist street movement that protests against Muslim extremism and Islam. They say they are not racist but their record proves otherwise. They easily expand the target of their hatred to anyone who isn’t white, to immigrants and those who don’t fit their crude definition of ‘English’. Their supporters have gone on the rampage and attacked Asian owned businesses, students demonstrating against tuition fees and have been convicted of arson attacks on mosques
https://londonantifascists.wordpress.com/2013/08/05/stop-edl-in-tower-hamlets-saturday-7th-september/

[4MyNation]

Being a feminist, their is no way I could support Islam. If a woman does feel liberated by the hijab or burqa, than she should have the freedom to wear it. Being forced to dress in a bikini, or completely concealed, is not freedom at all.

[GiantMonkeyMan]

Being a feminist, their is no way I could support Islam. If a woman does feel liberated by the hijab or burqa, than she should have the freedom to wear it. Being forced to dress in a bikini, or completely concealed, is not freedom at all.
Neither is being under the jackboot of fascism.

Not everyone in Tower Hamlets is a practicing muslim and being anti-EDL is not the same as being pro-Islam. Every year when they march through Tower Hamlets the EDL essentially are trying to emulate Mosley's fascists when they marched through Cable Street, a largely Irish immigrant and Jewish community at the time. Every year, in response to the aggression of the EDL, anti-fascists stand in solidarity with the local working class communities in Tower Hamlets, just as anti-fascists did with the communities in Cable Street, and oppose the message of hatred that's dividing us arbitrarily.

No Pasaran! :thumbup1: