Malmö says “Nej tack” to the EDL

Dispatch International has invited English Defence League leaders Tommy Robinson and Kevin Carroll to visit Copenhagen and Malmö next month, providing Danes and Swedes with the opportunity to learn first-hand what the EDL stands for, rather than read the distorted version fed to them by the MSM.

The two Lutonians will appear as scheduled in Copenhagen, but the Malmö gig has been thrown into doubt by the venue, which cancelled the booking when they found out that two right-wing extremist racist xenophobic fascist neo-Nazi Islamophobes were going to be the feature attraction.

DI posted the following notice on Tuesday:

The Swedish Free Press Society and Dispatch International present Tommy Robinson and Kevin Carroll

Swedish and Danish media portray the grass root English Defence League, EDL, as a bunch of violent football hooligans and despicable racists. But are they? Come and hear what the EDL’s leaders have to say.

Tommy Robinson and Kevin Carroll will visit Malmö and Copenhagen to tell why they oppose England’s Islamization and how they go about it. After their speeches, the audience will have ample opportunity to ask questions.

We are looking for a new place for the meeting

Malmö September 28, 2013

  • Time: 14-16
  • 200 SEK

Copenhagen September 29, 2013

  • Odd Fellow Palæet, 28 Bredgade
  • Time: 15-17
  • 150 DKK

Ingrid Carlqvist followed up yesterday with this editorial:

Editorial: What does the English Defence League want?

by Ingrid Carlqvist

On November 6, 1881, August Palm called a meeting in Malmö, at Hotel Stockholm. Approximately 130 turned up to listen to the 32 year old tailor who wanted to explain what the Social Democrats stood for and how they wanted to change society. The title of his speech was: What do the Social Democrats want?

On September 28, the Swedish Free Press Society and Dispatch International had intended to hold a similar meeting. To be sure Hotel Stockholm is long gone so we booked a hall at Folkets hus (The People’s House) in Malmö. On the podium we intended to present the leaders of the English Defence League, Tommy Robinson and Kevin Carroll, to give them an opportunity to explain what the EDL stands for and how they want to change society. The theme of the meeting was: Who are the EDL?

But the inhabitants of Malmö are not supposed to know. Hardly had we posted the information, before we got a mail from the Malmö Conference Center (Malmö Konferenscenter):

Hi!

After being informed that your arrangement on September 28 is a presentation by the extreme right organization, the English Defence League … we have decided that we will have nothing to do with organizations of this type.

We therefore cancel your booking for the arrangement.”

The People’s House, which was established by the working-class Social Democrats at the end of the 19th century, will now prevent the working class activists Robinson and Carroll from coming here to tell how they want to change society…

Read the rest at Dispatch International.

3 thoughts on “Malmö says “Nej tack” to the EDL

  1. Recall the recent study/DoD document on ‘extremism’ – these people are exhibiting the very traits described in that document. Failure to explain themselves, inability to argue coherently and logically, fear of people who think differently than they do, etc …

  2. And btw they need to be challenged over their use of the descriptor “extreme right”.

    What exactly do they mean by that?

    And what possible reason do they have for applying it to the English Defence League?

    (Saying oh well other people have done it, so we did it as well SIMPLY WON’T DO.)

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