Welsh Defense League
These hooligans don’t seem to get it. These are the same people that Pamela Geller has called “freedom fighters.”
Four Arrested in Protest against Mosques
Four people were arrested at an anti-Muslim demonstration amid a strong police presence in Wrexham. Around 40 members of a group calling themselves the Welsh Defence League (WDL) shouted racial abuse and gestured towards locals, saying they were protesting against plans for a new mosque.
Four people were arrested for public order offences, and North Wales’s Temporary Deputy Chief Constable, Ian Shannon said the day passed without “significant incident”. Meanwhile Unite Against Fascism held a counter-protest, near where the WDL gathered on Saturday.
And a Wrexham Communities Against Racism festival attracted around 200 people. Residents were joined by faith groups, the Wales TUC, Searchlight, Unison and members of Wrexham Council. Searchlight Cymru secretary Ian Titherington said none of the WDL protestors were Welsh, and they appeared to be members of the English Defence League (EDL).
He said: “This was the final humiliation for the EDL’s disastrous visits to Wales. The only way they could hold an event was to bus in 30 from Bolton, who on arrival went to the nearest pub, got drunk and bawled out racist chants. The EDL gathering did not exactly sell any local links, by displaying a Bolton Wanderers FC English flag and singing God Save the Queen.”
The WDL was formed in June 2009 as an off-shoot of the EDL, which claims to campaign against Islamic extremism. The group insists it is not fascist. But at a march in Swansea in October, onlookers were confronted by jeering men giving Nazi salutes, and one was arrested for a racially aggravated public order offence.
November 23rd, 2009 at 1:46 pm
These protests are still going on? What is going to happen when they lose steam, they wont just vanish but they will reappear in a different more vile form, if that is possible.
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:16 pm
How brave! He can’t even show his face!
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:35 pm
I don’t think we need to worry about geller and company too much. The government is watching every visitor to their site. The whitehouse has placed cookies on the visitors computers to monitor their actions. I wouldn’t be surprised if an FBI agent commits suicide while monitoring the visitors because they have so much hate and no.lives.at.all which leads to his/her depression! LOL! The irony here is that bush, a republican president, signed the “patriotic” bill into law in order to monitor people’s actions ie. wire tapping, computer monitoring and other stuff. Congress, who the majority was republican during the bill signing, didn’t even read the bill! Even more hillarious! Now pamela geller can’t complain because her very own lovely party helped sign the bill into law! God I’m loving the dramatic irony that’s in the air.
November 28th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
“How brave! He can’t even show his face!”
and muslim protesters do right?
March 17th, 2010 at 4:39 am
Cassidy
It might not be cowardice he might actually be twice as clever as the rest of them. Four brain cells are better than two!
Regards