“God bless the Muslims. They’ll need it when they’re burning in f-ing hell.”
Posted by Daniel Trilling
The English Defence League marches on parliament.
The group, which claims to be non-racist and pro-freedom of speech, but whose followers have been filmed shouting racist slogans and chanting support for the far-right British National Party, has mounted a series of anti-Muslim demonstrations around Britain since March last year. In January, the EDL rioted in Stoke-on-Trent, where Asian residents and their white neighbours (described as “race traitors”, according to Unite Against Fascism) were attacked.
Today’s rally was in support of the far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders. Having been banned from entering the UK on a previous occasion, he was at the House of Lords today (at the invitation of the UK Independence Party leader, Lord Pearson) to screen his anti-Islam film Fitna.
This afternoon, several hundred EDL supporters assembled outside Tate Britain, downriver from parliament. When the march at first failed to get going, police allowed them to wander off to the pub for an hour or so. (By comparison, a smaller crowd of anti-racist protesters, organised by Unite Against Fascism, had been kept tightly corralled by police outside parliament’s St Stephen’s Gate since morning.)
Before marching towards parliament, the crowd was addressed by Guramit Singh — virtually the only non-white EDL supporter present — who claimed to be one of the “12 leaders” of the EDL. He called “on all religions” to “eradicate militant Islam”.
Although Singh and a subsequent speaker at the rally occasionally made a distinction between “moderate” Muslims and “extremists”, the crowd’s biggest cheer was reserved for Singh’s closing words:
“God bless the Christians, Jews, Sikhs, even God bless the Muslims — they’ll need it when they’re burning in fucking hell.”
Earlier, the Welsh Secretary and veteran anti-racist campaigner Peter Hain said: “The English Defence league, together with their allies the BNP, represent a racist and fascist threat — not just to Muslims but to [all] black, Asian and Jewish citizens, too.”
This was illustrated by the EDL supporters (including a couple dressed in fetching his’n’hers — black for him, pink for her — sweatshirts that bore the legend “EDL — Derby division”) I witnessed threatening a frightened mixed-race group of teenagers as they crossed paths on a sidestreet near Pimlico Station.
http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2010/03/defence-league-parliament
Mohammed Abbasi 
How often do you write your blogs? I enjoy them a lot 6 8 8
What a load of garbage, the EDL did not attack anyone.
Where do you get this rubbish from?
I live in Stoke, and there was no riot, just some UAF thugs trying to intimidate a peacefull march.
I absolutely agree with every word the author has written in this article!
this is the last election where muslim votes will count… enjoy your last happy years here…
really! come and make us
And yes I also agree the SWP/UAF are thugs
I can die for my islam and allah…. and no one can make us muslims do anything… we beleive in our religeon and if we die we will die for our islam…………… no one can make us no shit ………. wot the hell….
i beleive in my allah more than myself . just wait you idiots till the world ends…. then you will fliping know what our true religeion is !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
yes my frend.. we will always stand up for our religeon. even if we have to die for it. let those bastards know what the true religeon is…. w8 for judgments day……
there are over 50 million signs that islam is the true religeon. we believe in peace……. there was a christian boy and every friday night his body heats up and has arabic writing over him…. then that family converted to muslims……. in ur face
just w8 my frends !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
At least there are people that actually know what islam means and the true religeon is as well…… thank you my sister
our muslim faith will win one day ….. just believe in allah….. and just see,,, if allah is will us no one can do anything to us
To Muslim girl and Dir for my Islam: If you don’t like the west or England or the UK, then leave. The Uk and Europe are predominantly Christian countries, where the cult of Islam is not welcome. You can hide as much as you want under political correctness, but you’d better make plans to leave and go to a backwards country where you can follow the psychotic and insane ramblings of your pedophile prophet. You don’t seem to realize that islam is stuck in the 14th century, and has no hope of becoming unstuck. Leave if you cannot integrate with the west. leave.
Salam,
I come from Pakistan and I chose to come to the UK because I recognize the faults of my own goverment and want state to be sepreated from Islam as I practice it freely in this wonderful and peaceful country. The EDL are showing what the common british thinks and that is because exterimism has no real opposition here.
I personally am greatful for the EDL. We should speak more against those who want to use Islam and Muslims to do their sick biddings and create blood shed. It’s has nothing to do with “holy”. We should create a muslim coallition to condemn every act of muslim extrimists because not saying anything is agreeing silently!
Iv herd it all here “there was a Christian boy and every Friday night his body heats up and has Arabic writing over him…. then that family converted to Muslims in ur face”
What and no one told the media about this phenomena ? don’t be so stupid.
Then there is this gem “At least there are people that actually know what Islam means and the true religion is as well”
We know what it means, Subjugation of all women and all non Muslims, murder of all gay people, death of all Jews and the complete Annihilation of Israel.
Islam is a Religious Cult, it only gets away with this because it’s the worlds biggest Cult, it was invented by Mohammad from a Neolithic Arabian peninsular pagan moon god, Mohammad himself was a megalomaniac, murdering Paedophile.
Thank you Salim, if many more Muslims took your stance there would be no need for any of this, people call the EDL racist and Islam-o-phobic but the EDL is a reaction to an action and that action is Islam.
The fact is we don’t want Muslims and there offensive religion in our country, we have always been a tolerant society and that is one of our weaknesses, we will not Tolerate Islam’s Intolerance.
well said GUY lets get things straight about islam, look at Pakistan Christians being treated like shit . islamic countries Christian’s are being persecuted , burn out of their homes why because they are Christians, but the west turns a blind eye lets help the flood victims. these same people attack their christian neighbours. muslims in great Britain will not march against these crimes against Christians but they expect us to demonstrate against EDL , the truth is muslims will always support attack against Jew’s Christian’s and other faiths but they will not say it publicly. they will lie to you until you believe every word they say and people have fallen for their lies. i just like to say before i go i am ready to take up arms too defend my homeland every true English men and women white and black most be ready to fight . GOD BLESS ENGLAND
Err isn’t everyone forgetting that the EDL are mostly made oup of a bunch of jobless parasitic chavs, who think Patriotism mean getting drunk and urinating in public after en masse??
They are not intelligent enough to come up with their own arguments in general. They get them from Zionist blogs.
Do you really think “Salim” is actually “Salim”. Come on opposition to extrimism yes, but do you honestly think any Muslim would support the grotty chavs of the EDL???
Gloss over it all you want but that’s the truth. Just scum being scum. Nothing new.