re: #382 MandyManners

A group of Muslim protesters heckled British soldiers and brandished placards opposing the war in Afghanistan during a homecoming parade for troops in east London.

I worry that something bad is going to happen in London. This shit won’t be tolerated much longer.

More on the protests…

Screaming hate and brandishing vile placards, Muslim extremists and far-Right groups clashed yesterday in ugly scenes that marred a parade by soldiers.

Around 40 members of a group called Muslims Against the Crusades (MAC) arrived with inflammatory banners featuring slogans such as ‘Butchers return’ and ‘What are you dying for? 18k’.

They were soon confronted by 100 people, some wearing English Defence League T-shirts, who shouted ‘scum’ and ‘Muslim bombers off our streets’.

Police, who had received intelligence warning of trouble at the march in Barking, Essex, separated the groups behind barriers on opposite sides of the road.

But violence flared after 200 soldiers from 1st Battalion Royal Anglian Regiment - who lost five men in a recent tour of Afghanistan and had been granted freedom of the borough - marched past thousands of well-wishers.

MAC supporters shouted slogans such as ‘murderers, murderers’ and ‘British troops go to hell’, while the mainly white crowd opposite, some of whom are believed to have been BNP supporters, threw frozen pork sausages and chanted ‘scum’ and ‘Allah, Allah, who the f*** is Allah?’

The anti-MAC contingent then stormed the barriers and traded punches before around 100 officers, including some on horseback, broke up the mob.

The clashes came little over a year after Muslim extremists screamed ‘baby killers’ and ‘rapists’ at soldiers from 2nd Battalion Royal Anglian Regiment parading through Luton after a tour of duty in Iraq.

Members of the public who travelled to Barking yesterday to cheer the troops said they were ‘disgusted’ by what happened.