Mosques across the country could start sounding the daily call to prayer through loudspeakers following a series of unofficial pilot programmes. Scores of communities were allowed to use public address systems to alert the faithful during the holy month of Ramadan, which ended last night. Several councils gave permission for the call – known as… Continue reading Tommy Robinson Part 9
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Tommy Robinson Part 8
Tommy Robinson travelled to watch UEFA Euro 2016 in France and demonstrated with a T-shirt and English flag ridiculing the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Bedfordshire Police imposed a football banning order on him on his return; his solicitor Alison Gurden accused the police of equating the proscribed terrorist group with all… Continue reading Tommy Robinson Part 8
Jun 2020. The Facebook Boycott
June 2020. Mark Zuckerberg has dismissed the threat of a punishing boycott from major advertisers pressing Facebook to take a stronger stand on hate speech and said they will be back “soon enough”. According to a report by tech news site the Information, the Facebook founder and CEO sees the boycott from big brands including… Continue reading Jun 2020. The Facebook Boycott
Tommy Robinson Part 7
After Tommy Robinson’s release from licence at the end of his sentence in 2015, he returned to anti-Islam demonstrations with Pegida UK, a British offshoot of Pegida, a German anti-immigration organisation founded in Dresden amid the European migrant crisis. Addressing a Pegida anti-Islam rally in October 2015, Robinson spoke out against what he perceived to… Continue reading Tommy Robinson Part 7
Tommy Robinson Part 6
Tommy Robinson spoke at the Oxford Union on 26 November 2014. Unite Against Fascism (UAF) protested against his appearance, criticizing the Union for allowing him the platform when, according to UAF, he had not renounced the views of the EDL. Robinson told the audience he was not allowed to talk about certain issues because he… Continue reading Tommy Robinson Part 6
Protests in France Part 6
France will not be tearing down statues or rewriting its history in response to pressure from anti-racism activists, President Emmanuel Macron has said. “The republic will erase no trace or names of its history, it will forget none of its works, it will tear down none of its statues. We must instead lucidly look together… Continue reading Protests in France Part 6
Protests in France Part 5
The rolling transport strikes that crippled Paris through much of December and January have stopped, as empty pay packets post-Christmas took their toll. Instead there has been a change of tactic, with the more radical unions now planning sporadic days of action. President Emmanuel Macron’s bid to radically overhaul the post-war pension system reaches the… Continue reading Protests in France Part 5
Tommy Robinson with Jack Dawkins
In an interview with Jack Dawkins, Tommy Robinson says it as it so Patently is – “Fear is Paralysing, it’s Infected the Police, the Authorities; it’s the Islamization of Britain…the Government interfering with the Media, Pressurizing them to remove Dissident Voices, that’s Facism!”. He elaborates, “I’ve not got a Platform in the UK, they used… Continue reading Tommy Robinson with Jack Dawkins
Protests in France Part 4
Macron crystallizes the anger of all protestors and their language is getting more and more violent: “We’re going to hang the banker!” and “Macron, we’re coming to get you at your place!” It would seem the French want a king so they can cut off his head. While the 2019/2020 protests against pension reform –… Continue reading Protests in France Part 4
Protests in France Part 3
The government published an official decree on Saturday banning all non-essential gatherings, but hundreds of protesters, some wearing protective masks, began convening outside the Montparnasse train station, chanting anti-Macron slogans. The yellow vests, named after the high-visibility jackets they wear, were holding a 70th consecutive Saturday of action. The movement emerged late in 2018, triggered… Continue reading Protests in France Part 3