Next time it’ll be 100,000: UK and EU cities see day of co-ordinated anti-Islamic rallies
UK PEGIDA has warned there will be “100,000 Britons marching on the streets against Islam” by the end of the year after a day of sometimes violent anti-Islamic migrant protests were staged across Europe.
By SELINA SYKES AND OLI SMITH
Express.co.uk
Sun, Feb 7, 2016
In Birmingham about 250 supporters of pan-European anti-immigration group PEGIDA faced about 60 pro-refugee demonstrators.
PEGIDA supporters carried placards with slogans including ‘Rape Culture is being Imported’ and ‘We will not stay silent as women are raped’.
The far-right group even claimed that 100,000 Britons will be marching alongside them “by the end of the year”.
PEGIDA leader Paul Weston said: “The next meeting we have is going to be double or treble the numbers.
“By the end of this year, and I’m been quite serious, I want to see 100,000 decent people on the street”.
Police in Birmingham were also forced to defend the number of officers deployed to the scene in Birmingham, with some protestors calling the response an “overreaction”.
A 39-year-old man was arrested at the rally for a public order offence.
The mile-long “silent march” in Birmingham was pushed out into the outskirts amid the heavy police deployment.
The event was the first to be organised by Tommy Robinson, the founder of the English Defence League.
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