Who are the English Defence League?

It was announced today by the Quilliam Foundation that Tommy Robinson – aka Stephen Yaxley-Lennon – has decided to leave the English Defence League (EDL), a far-right anti-Muslim street group he co-founded.

Anti-Muslim incidents and the Woolwich attack: an initial appraisal

There’s no one, easy solution to this problem, and the origins of hatred and prejudice are extremely complex. However the first step should be to recognise that anti-Muslim incidents like these are a serious problem in their own right, and in a just and fair society, no one should be subject to this sort of violence and prejudice.

Police terror boss only half right in remarks about EDL

Islamist terrorism predates the EDL by many years. Osama bin Laden published his justification for the indiscriminate killing of Americans and Jews everywhere in February 1998 and the ‘secret apparatus’ of the Muslim Brotherhood is believed to have assassinated Mahmoud an-Nukrashi Pasha, then prime minister of Egypt, as long ago as 1948.