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Thread #131552 Message #2971875
Posted By: Emma B
24-Aug-10 - 01:37 PM
Thread Name: BS: Islamic cultural centre near ground zero
Subject: RE: BS: Islamic cultural centre near ground zero
Andrew Brown 'tags' a couple of the 'hatemongers' in his 'Comment is Free' blog in The Guardian last Wednesday
'The two people behind SIOA (Stop Islamisation of America) are Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller, who, between them, run two flourishing and hate-filled sites, Jihad Watch and Atlas Shrugs, which link into an undergrowth of far-right websites in Europe, including the skinheads of the English Defence League, but also to respectable rightwingers such as Douglas Murray of the Centre for Social Cohesion, and even the Catholic Herald.
To judge from their websites, the important political movement in England is the English Defence League (as Geller calls them, "the courageous English patriots of the much-maligned English Defence League")