Hi, this is a difficult post and I would like to say that I come to you in peace and that I sincerely wish you well. It is not my intention to disrespect your beliefs, only to talk.
I'll be completely honest from the word go, I am a member of the EDL and the reason I am posting is because I feel that you are all misinformed about who we are and our intentions.
I and the EDL are not racist, we are not right wing and we DO NOT in any way support the BNP or any other racist group and we are not in any way against ordinary Muslims, in fact we respect those of you who work hard to make a better life for your selves and your families.
If you were to come to our website you would see clearly stated that we will ban and delete posts and opinions that are racist and against ordinary Muslims. We welcome all to join us, regardless of skin colour or religion.
We are only against the extremist who would bomb and kill. we are frighten for our wives, mothers,children, no one surely wants to wake up one morning to find their loved ones have been blown to pieces, we don't bring our kids up to be killed because they were on the wrong bus, tube, train or plane, do we?
Our demonstrations, which were supposed to be peaceful are being hijacked by the likes of the BNP and the so called UAF, WHY, because they are violent thugs looking for a fight, they want the violence, they want division and I and the EDL LOATH SUCH PEOPLE and it breaks my heart to see our cause hijacked.
Nick Griffin is a racist thug and his plan is to get sympathy and votes by making Muslims look as if they are. The sympathy vote, don't fall into his trap.
All of these groups, BNP, white power, combat 18 etc are all trying to hijack our cause, which is a fight against extremism we want peace and harmony, there are many many good and decent Muslims who work in our NHS as doctors, nurses and other caring roles, who are councillors, MPs,school teachers, the list is endless and I and the EDL appreciate this and respect this too.
When the group who abused the home coming solders demonstrated I became angry, why because these poor sods, sent to war by a corrupt government to support another corrupt government for the so called war on terror didn't deserve this, they have no choice, no voice.
It should be Blair, Brown and Bush who should have been demonstrated against, they are the war criminals, not the poor squaddies on the front line dying for no good reason.Some of these solders are of course Muslim.
I would point out to you that extreme Islam is some thing that has no place here, please try and imagine if the liquid bombers had succeeded, the heartbreak, the grief, the devastation as people woke up to the death of all their dreams and hopes.
Now I come to my finale point, you, not us, must drive out the extremist, you must tell them there is no place here for them, we the ordinary folk and I include Muslims in this, dont want a war or violence, we just want peace and harmony, we can't control what the war criminals Blair, Brown and Bush do, but, on the streets of England we don't need to listen to their lies. Let the likes of Griffin and the UAF fight, they are violent thugs with there own agenda. we the EDL wish no harm to innocent Muslims.
Please, come to our website, you will see for your selves that most of are against racism.We state clearly that it is not our intention to target innocent Muslims.
My kindest regard,
Arturo.
