The anti-Islam English Defense League plans a massive European rally. Violence feared on streets of Aarhus, Denmark, as far-right gathers from across Europe
Members of the right-wing English Defence League (EDL) shout at Islamist demonstrators protesting outside the US embassy in London on Sept. 11, 2011 during a ceremony to mark the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the United States. Around 50 people brandished anti-US banners, chanted slogans and burnt a small piece of paper with … Read more
Far right on rise in Europe, says report Study by Demos thinktank reveals thousands of self-declared followers of hardline nationalist parties and groups. Europe’s ‘nationalist populists’ and far right – interactive
Extremist Norwegian Anders Behring Breivik (left), who went on a killing spree in Norway in July. A new Facebook-based study has revealed a rise in far right political views throughout Europe. Photograph: Scanpix Norway/Reuters The far right is on the rise across Europe as a new generation of young, web-based supporters embrace hardline nationalist and … Read more
Football hooligans to launch ‘European Defence League’ in Amsterdam
The English Defence League (EDL), the anti-Muslim ‘street army’ composed largely of football hooligans that burst onto the front pages of British newspapers in the last year as a result of its often violent protests, is to hold a rally in Amsterdam in October, EUobserver has learnt. The EDL is to demonstrate in support … Read more
