By JPOST.COM STAFF The Jerusalem post:
10/10/2010 14:23
EDL develops ties with American Tea Party movement; invites US Rabbi and Tea Party activist to speak on Sharia in London, reports the ‘Guardian.’
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The English Defence League (EDL), a British far-right group opposing the “Islamification” of the West and which is in contact with the US-based Tea Party organization, has invited Tea Party activist and senior Rabbi Nachum Shifren to speak about Sharia law in London this month, the Guardian reported on Sunday.
The EDL’s links with the Tea Party movement surfaced a day after roughly 1,000 EDL supporters demonstrated in Leicester, which boasts a large Muslim population, according to the Guardian.
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Shifren, who is running for senate in the midterm elections, said Britain’s Jewish community should support the EDL. “The Jewish community is paralysed with fear, exactly what most radical Muslim agitators want,” he said. “The people of England are in the forefront of this war – and it is a war. One of the purposes of this visit is to put the kibosh on the notion in the Jewish community that they cannot co-operate with the EDL, which is rubbish.”
Devin Burghart, vice-president of the Kansas-based Institute for Research & Education on Human Rights, was also quoted in the Guardian story, commenting on the Tea Party’s increasingly anti-Islamic views.
“As we move farther and farther away from the Tea Party origins, that were ostensibly around debt and bail-outs, social issues like Islamophobia are replacing that anger, that vigour. The idea that there is a war between Islam and the west is becoming commonplace,” he said.
The free people of the West have to hang together otherwise they will hand separately. Yes I know Ben Franklin said it first, but it applies to this situation.
The war was declared by the false prophet Mohammed (rihf) over 1400-years ago. Believing Muslims still hold that teaching valid. In other words, Islam is at war with us, whatever delusional people believe.
I think it is vital that two groups above all others join the EDL. Those are the Middle Class to give it that respectability that it so sorely needs in the media eye which is biased against it. The other group is of course Jews to deflect the Nazi smears. It could then be pointed out that the lefty/white and the muslim/ brown alliance is the real Nazi party.
I am interested in knowing more about the EDL. As a Canadian, I am sad to see what is happening in England. I have to admit, I don’t really know the politics of the EDL beyond its agenda against the Islamification of Britain, but as a “colonial subject,” I, like my forefathers, am willing to do whatever it takes to stop the evil tide of Islam spreading any further. More information regarding the EDL would be greatly appreciated. Keep up the good fight, my brothers.
I am a free man.