EDL Tower Hamlets March Banned

By · August 27, 2011 at 9:06 am · 11 Comments · Latest News · Report an error ·

Plans for a demonstration in one of London’s largest Muslim communities by far-right group the English Defence League have been blocked by the Home Secretary.

The march was originally intended to take in Tower Hamlets, Newham, Waltham Forest, Hackney and Islington but after months of campaigns to stop it, the Metropolitan Police applied to Home Secretary Theresa May for the final say.

Needless to say, the EDL have interpreted the decision as ‘restricting our democratic right to peaceful protest’ which is certainly an optimistic description of a demonstration seemingly designed to provoke unrest. The protest claimed to be a stand against extremism, particularly homophobia – in recent months an anti-gay poster campaign in Tower Hamlets made the news when residents fought back.

Mayor Lutfur Rahman welcomed the ban:

‘I thank the Home Secretary for making this decision, which means we can now move forward as a community free from the threat of the EDL marching through our borough with their messages of hate. This has always been a borough where people of different faiths, cultures and backgrounds live in harmony, and we will not be divided by the EDL or any other groups.’

The 30-day ban will also cover anti-EDL marches and come into force on 2 September.

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  • White guy

    If you read the mission statement of the EDL they do not incite violence.  England = no freedom of speech.

  • Anonymous

    Islam is a horrible set of beliefs and should not be given any special privileges.  The EDL should be free to march against these savages as otherwise we will all have to one day unless Muslim immigration is not restricted in the UK.  

  • Beth Torr

    The march was banned (and rightly so) based on public order concerns. It doesn’t take a genius to work out that a far-right demonstration in boroughs with diverse ethnic groups is at best deliberately provocative and at worst implicitly inciting violence.

    Given the furore over the riots, I am surprised that anyone would think it was a good idea to engineer a situation where more rioting could take place. Personally, I think the Police’s time is better spent elsewhere than trying to contain the intolerant protesting against intolerance.

  • Anonymous

    the march is banned but not the demo you left wing fascists!!!!
    were coming…. were coming……. were coming down the road!!!!!

  • Anonymous

    public order concerns????? so they will ban the fascist and racist book called the quran then???????
    Qur’an (5:51)
    - “O you who believe! do not take the Jews and the Christians for friends;
    they are friends of each other; and whoever amongst you takes them for a friend,
    then surely he is one of them; surely Allah does not guide the unjust people.”

  • Anonymous

    did you know that the arabic word for a black person and a slave is the same???
    did you know that in the quran muhammed calls black africans for raisin heads???
    do you believe that todays norther african countrys was originally inhabited by arab people??? if not then what do you think happend to the people living there before the arabs took over??? you think they live somewhere else now??hahahhahahah ofc you dont and you know very well what happens to the people once this fascist ideology takes over!

  • Ascarboro

    Welcome to the UK: Land of censorship, street cameras & police/government control. Amazing isn’t it: over the next 2 days they promote en-masse West Indian drug dealing in a huge part of West London yet a group of English lads pointing out the most serious threat to our freedom since the Roman conquest is banned as ‘what they say’ incitement all to appease their wonderful muslims. THE POLICE & MUSLIMS DESERVE EACH OTHER!!!

  • Truth seeker

    People like you, Beth Torr deserve to have a massive mosque erected next to your home.Ans sooner or later you will. Don’t coming crying to us when the mullahs beat you for not covering your pretty little face!!

  • Barney

    The ban doesn’t just cover EDL and anti EDL marches – it covers all processions, with an exception for the religious, funereal and customary, across five London boroughs. It’s really irritating that it keeps being reported as an ‘EDL march ban’.  And as motstand points out, it only apply to marches, not static demonstrations, although in practice the difference is sometimes hard to tell as people walk to and from a static demonstration.

  • Lenny

    its people like the uaf thats the problem the edl want there country back, the uaf want to destroy Gt Britain

  • Waryakoko

    this is just plain rubbish, and it also shows you don’t know the Arabic Language, where is your evidence. with regards to black people. one of the most important people in Islamic history is Bilal the Abyssinian, and there is many more but I am not sure you would really research if yes then please do reply and I will be happy to provide you some more information.    

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