Comments on: The EDL – a challenge for the trade union movement http://www.redpepper.org.uk/the-edl-a-challenge-for-the-trade-union-movement/ Red Pepper Wed, 18 Sep 2013 17:39:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Frankie http://www.redpepper.org.uk/the-edl-a-challenge-for-the-trade-union-movement/#comment-221162 Frankie Mon, 08 Jul 2013 13:59:57 +0000 http://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=10154#comment-221162 The radical left have not listened to what the English working class are saying, that’s the problem. Listening means using both ears and closing your mouth.

]]> By: Tony http://www.redpepper.org.uk/the-edl-a-challenge-for-the-trade-union-movement/#comment-218453 Tony Sun, 23 Jun 2013 14:56:54 +0000 http://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=10154#comment-218453 It’s great to read these comments. I thought i was the only one on the left who thought like this!

I find it so difficult to understand why those on the left support the fascist islamists to such extremes. Two wrongs dont make a right, just because you dont agree with american and british foreign policy does not mean you have to be apologist and agree with the islamists to the extend you support them or at best turn a blind eye to what they preach.

I am proud to be english and a socialist, although i am waiting for someone to call me racist. It wont be long.

]]> By: Will Podmore http://www.redpepper.org.uk/the-edl-a-challenge-for-the-trade-union-movement/#comment-217419 Will Podmore Thu, 20 Jun 2013 11:07:12 +0000 http://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=10154#comment-217419 If the fascist English Defence League had killed 52 Londoners on 7/7, we would have blamed their pernicious ideology, not their ‘race’ or religion. We would not have confused the two. We would have called them murderers.

But when fascist Islamists killed 52 Londoners on 7/7, the ultra-left said that blaming their pernicious ideology was Islamophobic. When fascist Islamists tried to blow up a march in Dewsbury last year, the ultra-left said that blaming their pernicious ideology was Islamophobic. The ultra-left refuses to distinguish between their terrorism and their religion. It identifies Islamists with Muslims. It conflates the two. No critique of Islamist terrorists is allowed.

The SWP front Unity Against Fascism denies that there are Islamist fascists who promote anti-Semitism and sectarian attacks on non-extremist Muslims. A UAF vice-chairman, Azad Ali, is an Islamist extremist. He is a coordinator of the Islamic Forum of Europe, a Muslim supremacist group aiming to change ‘the very infrastructure of society, its institutions, its culture, its political order and its creed from ignorance to Islam’. Ali has written of his ‘love’ for Anwar al-Awlaki, the al-Qaeda cleric linked to terrorist plots including 9/11. Ali has described al-Qaeda as a ‘myth’ and denied that the Mumbai attacks were terrorism.

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