British PM playing games on racism

Cameron said at the opening of a Downing Street anti-discrimination summit with former players and football bosses that they need to prevent the spread of racism from the pitch into the society by a ‘crushing’ response to emerging cases.

“If everyone plays their role, then we can easily crush and deal with this problem,” he said.

“What happens on the field influences what happens off the field. You see children as young as six imitating the behaviour they see on the field,” he added.

However, Cameron did not raise his own government’s failure to ban the English Defense League, which has emerged from the very roots he claimed he does not want to return to football and affect the society.

The BBC said back in October 2009 when the EDL were just seven months old that the group has evolved from the football hooligan clubs.

The EDL claim not to be racist but the fact that many of its senior members are former members of the far-right British Nationalist Party (BNP) considered along with the racist tone of much of their slogans and statements and the racist behavior at their rallies run contrary to such claims.

The EDL’s racism is so evident in the rallies that, the Guardian could reveal in as early as May 2010 that the group “claims it is a peaceful and non-racist organization” yet the paper’s undercover reporters have “witnesses racism, violence and virulent Islamophobia” in their rallies since February that year.

“At each demonstration I attended while making an undercover film for the Guardian’s investigative film unit, Guardian Films, I was confronted by casual – often brutal – racism, a widespread hatred of Muslims and often the threat of violence,” A Guardian reporter said.

This is while, the Home Office has so far refused to outlaw the group amid growing evidence of its links to terrorists and outspoken racist Zionists, describing the group’s obvious racism and hate preaching as their right to free speech.

Back in July 2011, and after the Norwegian self-confessed terrorist Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 people in cold blood in a bombing and mass shooting campaign, it appeared that the killer repeatedly praised the EDL in his 1,500-page manifesto saying he has spoken with “tens of EDL members” and has many others as Facebook friends.

At the time, the anti-racist organization Searchlight said Brevik was in contact with EDL members just four months before the attacks.

Meanwhile, EDL leader Tommy Robinson released a statement after the EDL were described as Nazis by some media “The EDL stands where it always has stood, which is side-by-side with Israel.”

“If Israel falls, we all fall. This is what our movement has been built on for two years,” he added.

Back in August and under government pressure, judges gave four years in prison to two men for inciting riots on Facebook while a student was given 12 months in jail for throwing two placard sticks at the police during March 26 strikes and a boy was sentenced to six months behind the bars for stealing a bottle of water.

However, judges released an EDL thug with a £200 fine after committing a “racist attack” on a mosque.

The British PM said on Wednesday that the government wants “to make sure football is all about a power to do good, rather than anything else.”

He did not make it clear whether the government considers a group of racist football hooligans with terrorist links as a force of “good” or whether government’s clemency toward the group is an instigator of good manners in society.

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