EDL to hold Dudley demo next year
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Friday December 05 2014
The Express & Star report on plans by the English Defence League to hold a protest in Dudley against the decision by the local council to grant planning permission for a new mosque.
According to the far right group’s Facebook page, the protest is planned to take place on 7 February 2015.
The planned protest emerged after plans submitted by the Dudley Muslim Association were approved by Dudley Council last month. The paper reports that the association still faces legal obstacles due to last two years, including at least two court hearings, before it can be built.
Although alternative sites for the mosque are being considered to avoid community disharmony, the EDL is going ahead with its protest.
Two pictures were uploaded onto the EDL Dudley division’s Facebook page with a St George’s flag in the backdrop and the statement ‘no surrender’ written underneath. Another picture reportedly states ‘Dudley we are coming’.
The paper further observes the EDL’s previous demonstration in the area against a planned mosque in 2010 which led to violence. The EDL website boasts of its two large demonstrations four years ago against the mosque plans. It further adds “In 2014, the plans for the mosque are back and so we must go back. We have a duty to the local residents to help them fight this monstrosity once again, and we have a duty to ourselves, our children, and their children to stop yet another step in the Islamisation of this country.”
The EDL has held similar demonstrations across the country. While the demonstration in Birmingham in October this year led to mere scuffles, violence ensued in the 2012 protest in Walsall. Other demonstrations as part of the far right group’s ‘no mosque’ campaign were held in Cambridge, Bristol, Portsmouth and Plymouth.