80 arrested after anti-Islam protest in Denmark (03-31) 10:22 PDT AARHUS, Denmark (AP) -- More than 80 people were arrested Saturday as protesters hurling rocks and bottles tried to interrupt an anti-Islamic demonstration by far-right groups from across northern Europe, Danish police said. There were numerous brief scuffles throughout the day as police tried to separate some 2,500 counter-demonstrators from a few hundred people attending the anti-Islamic rally in Aarhus, Denmark's second-largest city. One police officer received minor injuries after being hit by a bottle, police spokesman Georg Husted said. Police said about 200 to 300 people from Denmark, Britain, Germany, Sweden and Poland took part in what was billed as a "European counter-jihad meeting" to protest what they called the Islamization of Europe. They were met by a 10-times larger counter-demonstration by left-wing groups under the banner "Aarhus for Diversity." The anti-Islamic rally started with a moment of silence for the seven people killed by an al-Qaida-inspired gunman in France. Among the speakers was Tommy Robinson, the head of the English Defense League, a far-right group that has staged rowdy protests in Britain, and has inspired smaller offshoots in a number of European countries. Both demonstrations were peaceful until a group of black-clad, mask-wearing youth from the counter-demonstration tried to break through police lines, but officers in riot gear held them back. After the rally finished, protesters hurled rocks and bottles at a bus carrying the far-right sympathizers as police vans escorted it out of the city center. The defense leagues and other counter-jihadist groups that have sprung up in Europe in recent years distance themselves from neo-Nazis and say they don't accept racism or anti-Semitism. Opponents say they are just a new manifestation of xenophobia in Europe, targeting Muslims instead of Jews. Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian gunman who confessed to slaughtering 77 people last July, cited the English Defense League and other counter-jihadist groups in the anti-Muslim manifesto he released before the killing spree. Those groups have condemned his actions and dismissed him as a lunatic. Mari Linolkken traveled from Norway to join the counter-demonstration in Aarhus, 200 kilometers (125 miles) northwest of Copenhagen, saying she felt compelled to stand up against the far-right movement after what her own country had gone through with Breivik's attacks. "The English Defense League, Danish Defense League, the Stop Islamization of Europe we have experienced what their ideology means in practice," she said. Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/artic...31/international/i102247D56.DTL#ixzz1qnrnjdAJ Leftists are the opposite of tolerant to opposing political viewpoints. They have shown it time and time again. I believe Pim Fortuyn was assassinated by a Leftist for his political views. I find that pretty shocking for Western Europe. _
Was it necessary to add "(attacked)" to the thread title? Is small scuffles, a few trouble makers trying to cross through the police, and then throwing rocks at the bus enough to call this an attack. As for the part at the end of your post, I love how you completely ignore what the rightists (?) were protesting while condemning the leftists only. That is priceless.
-----------Snip------------ A number of counter jihad groups peacefully assembled today, led by Stop Islamization of Europe. SIO groups gathered from all across Denmark, Britain, Germany, Sweden and Poland for a European counter-jihad meeting. Kudos to Anders Gravers for helping to organize this pro-freedom conference. Contrary to the media reports, this was one of the most successful counter-jihad demos in Europe. Muslim groups and fascist elements attacked the demo and the police. No one from the counter jihad demo got physical in any way. Hundreds of Soldiers of Allah, various Palestinian groups and the fascist antifa forced and pushed the police. They threw bottles and rocks at the police and the pro-freedom demo. 82 of these savages were arrested. The news reports from the enemedia are propagandist lies. ---------snip--------------
Unless you protest against the government, then you get a face full of pepper spray and wake up sore in a jail cell the next day, right? And before you bring up Syria or Saudi Arabia or another dictatorship in the Middle East to make your government look better as it oppresses those who protest against it, just remember, they don't claim to be democracies.
Sorry, unlike in the barbarian middle east we don't appreciate public disorder that damages the economic and social stability of the urban center or the gross destruction of the public commons in the name of "pitchfork and torch" populism. America is not a proportional democracy, a small group of crazed youths is not a majority and does not have the right to tear up the Public Commons as a means of protest.
Yes. Throwing rocks at people can result in death. But I realize it's typical Sharia law behavior to stone citizens to death. So I'm not surprised you're so cool with it.
The "counter jihad" scum included the thugs from the EDL and other Nazi groups seeking a Europe-wide coalition of fascist dregs. I can see how they might be attracting the support of the usual suspects.
I observed from a cautious distance and they didn't seem to attract any real support here even with their new tactics showing an unusual degree of restraint.
What a load of horse(*)(*)(*)(*), the EDL is not a neo-Nazi organization and does not support fascism, racism, white supremacy, or even white nationalism. But continue your slander like we're all sure you will.
So in america. The yanks are allowed to interupt 'protests' by hurling rocks and bottles? Is this really true. Or this topic, Another trolling failure!
They have not called for the elimination of Muslims they support a Europe free of Islamic Imperialist oppression which the Muslims have been bringing to the west for decades.
Look sonny, I'm English, a Londoner who has been on the receiving end of these fascist thugs. You don't know what you are talking about.
I will observe from a cautious distance when the koranimals are raping and killing your family. And they will. Do you have a gun?
