{"id":7058,"date":"2014-12-03T15:42:52","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T15:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/12\/03\/edl-mosque-protest\/"},"modified":"2014-12-03T15:42:52","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T15:42:52","slug":"edl-mosque-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2014\/12\/03\/edl-mosque-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"EDL Mosque Protest"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The English Defence League plan to protest the building of a Dudley Mosque<\/h3>\n

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\nThe far-right protest group intend to hold a demonstration in the town on February 7th according to their social media pages.<\/p>\n


\nWest Midlands MEP (Member of the European Parliament) and Dudley councilor Bill Etheridge has implored the group to cancel their plans and leave the mosque issue to be settled democratically.<\/p>\n


\nThe UKIP MEP said, \u201cThe mosque is a controversial matter and a lot of people have their opinions on it.

\n\u201cIt is being opposed on planning grounds.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cGroups like the EDL have nothing constructive to add with the way they behave.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cI ask them to stay away from Dudley. This is a sensitive issue and it does not need people causing trouble.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nThis issue stems from the Dudley Muslim Association who are engaged in a tense battle with Dudley Council over a proposal for a mosque on land off Hall Street. Earlier this month, the association were granted planning permission for the mosque.<\/p>\n


\nBut they still have at least two court hearings and legal struggles lasting at least two years before the building can be erected. In an attempt to avoid the rising court costs and prevent community disharmony, Muslim leaders say they will consider alternative sites.<\/p>\n


\nOn a Facebook page purporting to belong to the EDL’s Dudley branch two pictures were added, one giving the date of a \u2018Dudley Demo\u2019 on the backdrop of a St George’s flag, with \u2018no surrender\u2019 written underneath. Another picture has \u2018Dudley we are coming\u2019 written on it.<\/p>\n


\nThe EDL first came to Dudley to demonstrate against the planned mosque in 2010, violence broke out and parts of the town were brought to a standstill after around 600 followers became involved in the commotion.<\/p>\n


\nHouses and cars were damaged, missiles were thrown at officers and steel fences were torn down as trouble flared between English Defence League demonstrators and police. Homes, cars, restaurants and even a religious temple were all targeted by vandals.<\/p>\n


\nIn 2012 another EDL protest occurred in Walsall.<\/p>\n


\nA Pakistan flag was burnt and placards were also displayed with messages such as, \u2018Our Walsall will never be part of Pakistan\u2019, Wolverhampton Crown Court heard the following year. Pages of the Quran were also allegedly burnt.<\/p>\n


\nThe EDL also came to Birmingham in October this year.<\/p>\n


\nBefore the Birmingham protest the EDL posted a message about Dudley on its main website, saying, \u201cWe went to Dudley twice to protest against the mosque in 2010. In 2014, the plans for the mosque are back and so we must go back.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cWe have a duty to the local residents to help them fight this monstrosity once again, and we have a duty to ourselves, our children, and their children to stop yet another step in the Islamisation of this country we hold so dear.\u201d \n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The English Defence League plan to protest the building of a Dudley Mosque The far-right protest group intend to hold a demonstration in the town on February 7th according to their social media pages. West Midlands MEP (Member of the European Parliament) and Dudley councilor Bill Etheridge has implored the group to cancel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}