The gathering storm

[Egan]

Originally Posted by Skybird

I have researched a bit on the English Defence League and do not like it much, seems to be a very unfriendly kind of right extremist breed, or am I wrong?
Rufmord

From what I remember, a number of their higher up members have ties to the BNP. Basically, they are right wing bootboys who try to pretend they are multi-cultural, but really, really aren't. In their early days, there were a number of groups such as Jewish organizations and Gay rights groups who believed they had common ground with them but many of those groups have removed themselves from any form of support. I would recommend trawling the archives at Harrys Place to find out more. They aren't very pleasant, as some of the videos of them terrorizing Muslim youths in various branches of Macdonalds will testify.

To me they always seemed like the sort of right wingers who claimed to support Israel only because they thought it gave them a mandate to hate Muslims as Socialists.

I can't speak about Condell, but I'd be surprised if Dawkins was any form of fan for the EDL. As a big Hitchens fanboi I would say it would be a cold day in hell that he would have ever given any form of support to such fascist scum.