90 arrested after Birmingham clashes

Source: CBC News

Authorities arrested 90 people after violence erupted between a group holding an anti-Islamist protest and counter-demonstrators in the central English city of Birmingham, police said Sunday.

The clashes erupted Saturday when a rally by the English Defence League ran into counter-demonstrators, including people calling themselves anti-fascists, and youths of South Asian descent, West Midlands police said.

About 200 people were involved in the clashes in downtown Birmingham, police said.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/09/06/birmingham-violence.html

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English Defence League? One of the BNP puppet organizations?

Couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch, especially considering their tendency to pick diverse parts of cities to march through.

I shall now listen to "Ghosts of Cable Street." You should too!

The members of the English Defence League.

Has been for over 700 years.

to their English in general. I didn't even notice the c in that word.

nt

...of various football 'firms' from the Midlands. They're technically deniable, so the BNP doesn't catch the flak.

as they did at the G-20?

There is a difference. Many Muslims would even be anti-Islamist, because anti-Islamism is about opposing "Islamism," the ideology of Islamic theocracy.

And you can bet that it's not just the "fundamentalist" Muslims they dislike either.

Moderate Muslims, secular Muslims, Catholic Muslims... I imagine they're all the same in the eyes of groups like that.

(Figures that that makes them essentially identical to their view of the group they claim to oppose.)