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In response to the protest against the
Royal Anglians a group calling itself the United People of Luton have
held a number of counter demonstrations against the "scum" that ruined
the soldiers' homecoming. When they held a protest last month a mob of
skinheads broke away from the police cordon and started attacking
Asians. Another UPL march is planned for the August bank holiday and
many young Muslims in the Bury Park area say they will do whatever is
necessary if the police fail to protect them.
"Everybody is getting
ready for a fight," said one 19-year-old man, who strongly disapproved
of Al Muhajiroun but was concerned that Luton's Muslims were being
targeted by anti-Muslim mobs. "We're fed up with girls in veils getting
spat at and having racist abuse hurled at us. If they come here again,
we'll fight."
Mr
Latif, meanwhile, hopes that their decision to turn on the extremists
within their own community will now prompt Luton's white community to
do the same. "I believe people on all sides are sick of the
extremists," he said. "I now hope the white working class will weed out
the fascists and hate mongers just like we now have. Otherwise things
will only get worse."
From http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...s-1695485.html
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