The EDL is a xenophobic and racist organisation and as far as I can make out it appeals to the basest fears in a certain type of uneducated person who probably thinks of themself as an English patriot. I think as far as opposing the building of a new mosque is concerned, it is trying to bar the barn door after the horse has bolted! In Britain we have been too accommodating in allowing immigrants over many decades to not just practice their Muslim faith but to encourage them to do so. We have allowed the most extreme form of Islam to be preached with impunity and also allowed them to set up their own schools. We should have insisted that they fully integrated with our indigenous population, with the instruction of British customs and compulsory English language lessons an absolute condition of residency. We are now reaping what we sowed over all these years when we called it parity of esteem towards immigrant cultures, I think it was stupidity. The extreme Islamists despise our weakness and organisations like the EDL have found a fertile breeding ground in the uneducated amongst us.

EDL? Or Peado-L? Their high ranking officials do seem to have a penchant for kiddie fiddling.

The rest is typical racism masquerading as patriotism and social concern. Much to my disappointment, I found my mum had signed up to a group called Knights Templar before she died. One of Nick Griffin's creations, apparently,and much the same sort of thing. A load of waffle about making Britain great again, but you don't have to scratch the surface too hard to discover that the whole agenda is to get rid of brown people.

I guess that when your only accomplishment is having the good grace to be born into the master race then you've got to make the most of what you've got.

Nothing wrong with criticising ideas it's how we grow. Very different to objecting with violence about something you don't understand

They look just like our boneheads. But I don't judge on appearances tho there is some relevance to their manner of projection & dress. Yes we have too many boneheads here. One in the White House.

Although the EDL claim that their reason for existence is to fight militant islam and jihadism, they have no interest in or understanding of religion. They are simply a racist and xenophobic bunch of hooligans who think that anyone who is not white and right-wing shouldn't live in their country. They had links to the right-wing mass-murderer Anders Breivik in Norway.

Just another hate group like britain first . Set up by football hooligans to defend the flag . They try to say they are just protesting islam but on closer inspection it is apparent they are just typical racists who like a good punch up . There's a few photos around of them giving nazi salutes and articles of them with close ties to american racial hate groups (i forget the names at the moment) . I witnessed a protest of theirs in cardiff about a hundred of them turned up and they kept chanting get out of england . The counter protesters , who vastly outnumbered them , had to remind them they were actually in wales . Not much braincells between them .

I can't vote here because it doesn't have an option for "The EDL does have morals, but they're the morals of a gang of brain-dead, neo-Nazi thugs who advocate violence against innocent human beings".

Islam would be tolerable if only it were not so antagonistic to post-Enlightenment values. Unlike Christianity which is just obnoxious but generally harmless, Islam is a more virulent aggressive form of cancer. At least the EDL have the guts to say "Boo!" no matter how politically incorrect this is believed to be.

Do we know how the EDL feel about Scots, Welsh and Northern Irish?