22 Mar 2010
Joe Bloggs
In your earlier report you did not mention the smear campaign against the EDL by the media, UAF and Bolton Council. EDL was portrayed as a group of violent racists intent on rioting. The people of Bolton were scared into not coming to hear the speeches by the EDL - one of the EDL speakers was a pakistani ex-muslim, another was a sikh.
The UAF were in Bolton for days leading up to the EDL demo. They were leafletting on the streets and saying that an army of Nazis was visiting Bolton. On the day before the demo the fire alarms in the Town Hall were set off twice. When the staff streamed out, the UAF were standing outside to hand them leaflets. Coincidence?
On the day of the demo, rumours flew round people in Bolton saying that 3 or 4 mosques had been petrol-bombed, and that 4 muslims had been stabbed. These were again all lies spread by the UAF. And that has totally misfired - if there is another demo in Bolton there will be thousands of people from Bolton who will come out to hear what the EDL has to say. They're not going to be fooled by the UAF lies a second time.
I'm so relieved that the police are finally starting to deal with the UAF and their tactics of inciting violent disorder. I personally have stood near them at demos and heard them say "we are hoping there is a riot". They have no concern for anybody (muslim or non-muslim). They just want to foment violent disorder.
The EDL has highlighted in past demos that gay people will be in the forefront of the targets for Sharia Law. Now the EDL has it's own LGBT Division, which had 100 members within 2 weeks of being formed.
On the Bolton demo we found local lesbians and gay men who had come on to the demo without being members of EDL and without even knowing the EDL had a gay division.
22 Mar 2010
Esmerelda Weatherwax
Thank you Joe. I was hoping for some eye witness reports from those who were there and am thus much obliged to you.
The desire of the UAF to foment trouble was obvious even from their report in Socialist Worker on Friday about what turned out to be a local car thief breaking into a parked car. They made out that a gang of racists had attacked the Mosque 'with knives'. Not the ideal tool to use on a stone/brick building. A brick cutter or a demolition ball would be more the thing.
Do they think we are stupid?
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