Anti-Islamic groups across Europe to attend far-Right rally

He described the planned gathering, in Aarhus on March 31, as the “first
proper European event”.

“We’re hoping this will be the launch of a wider European Defence League,”
he said. “We don’t expect it to be big, but our first event wasn’t that
big, and they’re just going to get bigger and bigger.”

Mr Lennon, who was convicted of assault in November 2011 after headbutting
another EDL member at a rally, said his members were prepared for violence.

“The likelihood is that the local Islamic community will come and attack
us, aided and abetted by the far-Left,” he said. “We come to
protest peacefully, it’s not our fault that when we come out, that they come
to try and bash our heads in.”

Imran Shah, the spokesman for the Islamic Society of Denmark,
urged Muslims to stay away from the rally and called on the Danish
government to act against the growing movement, especially in the wake of
last year’s massacre of 77 people by Norwegian
far-Right extremist Anders Behring Breivik
.

“We’ve seen what the rhetoric of hate can do in Norway. Do we want some
deaths here before we react?”, he said.

Breivik
was an early European supporter of the EDL
, attending a rally in
Bradford in 2010, and claiming hundreds of EDL members as his Facebook
friends.

Matthew Goodwin, an expert on the far-Right at Nottingham University, said
that the EDL’s move into Europe is worrying.

“It shows us something that I don’t think British commentators have
grasped, which is that elsewhere in Europe, the EDL is seen as being

quite a significant movement,” he said. “When you look at guys like
Anders Breivik and the Danish Defence League, we can see how groups in

Europe are looking at Britain and the EDL as a model.”

Weyman Bennet, a spokesman for Unite Against Fascism, said: “Everywhere
they’ve called a demonstration there’s been violence. Across

Europe, the Sweden Democrats and the Danish People’s Party, all of them are
growing by using this rhetoric. We see them as a group of

people who will try and encourage fascist politics they’ve simply swapped
anti-semitism for anti-Islam.”

Denmark is a natural choice for the EDL to launch its first European march.

The Danish People’s Party is one of the most electorally successful
anti-immigrant parties in Europe, winning 12.3 per cent in elections last
September. The Danish Defence League has grown rapidly since its founding a
year ago, with chapters already set up in more than 10 Danish cities.

: Anders Behring Breivik was a “male chauvinist” who did not know
how to treat women, his last known girlfriend has said.

Breivik met the woman, who the paper refers to as Natascha, on a dating site
in 2005, and then travelled to see her in her home town of Minsk, Belarus,
before bringing her to stay with him in Oslo.

The woman said discovering that her former boyfriend had killed so many people
had been “simply terrible”.

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