Hitler had an SS division from India, which did almost certainly contain Sikhs. Ernst Roehm, the head of the SA, was gay as were probably many other Nazis. So yes, Hitler had Sikh and gay allies. The EDL doesn’t actually have a Sikh ‘division’, it has Guramit Singh who is a racist (he calls for Muslims to burn in hell and calls people P*kis). I mean where is this Sikh Division other than on Facebook? It’s never visible at any demos. The EDL’s gay division is also hardly very prominent. The EDL’s Jewish, gay and Sikh divisions’ Facebook groups are mostly made up of people who aren’t those things.

There are approximately 30 different things the EDL has in common with the early Nazi Party, as in pre-Third Reich.

Also the EDL’s lineage, based on the fact it was founded by BNP members, goes English Defence League; British National Party; National Front; League of Empire Loyalists; British Union of Fascists. There is a direct lineage going back to Oswald Mosley and through him to Hitler.

The Pope of the time condemned Hitler and the Nazis murdered a great number of the Catholic clergy in Poland. The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem was an insignificant statesman, about as relevant as saying that Nazism was Christian if Hitler had allied himself with the Grand Duke of Luxembourg.

Your leader Tommy Robinson was photographed at a BNP meeting at which Richard Edmonds, an anti-Semitic organiser for the BNP and NF, was giving a speech. Edmonds denies the Holocaust ever happened. Also there was John Pater, a member of the openly neo-Nazi November 9th Society. The BNP are neo-Nazi and Tommy Robinson was a member and attended meetings by open neo-Nazis and Holocaust deniers.

Your other leader Kev Carroll says he nominated a member of the BNP to stand as a local councillor “by accident”, despite having “never heard of” the BNP, and although he’d “never heard of” the BNP (but was happy to nominate complete strangers from parties he’d never heard of), he asked if they were a racist party. Why would he ask if they were racist if he’d never heard of them before? A bit of an odd question under the supposed circumstances! Oh yes, and to demonstrate he’s “not racist”, when confronted with the above evidence in a TV interview he phoned a (very humiliated) black girl to come and appear with him in the interview. He said he wasn’t racist because she was his daughter. Actually as it seems like she’s his step-daughter, that proves absolutely bugger all. He also lied about there being no playground facilities for white kids, only Muslims.

Both your leaders have been involved in neo-Nazism, as have a few other high-ranking EDL members.

Islam borrows heavily from Judaism, has Jesus and the Angel Gabriel as major figures in its philosophy and follows the God of Abraham. It is an Abrahamic faith, regardless of what nonsense you wish to believe.

The EDL does not have 50,000 members; it has 50,000 people on its Facebook group (real life and Facebook as explained above are quite different). Many of those people are actually people with more than one profile, anti-EDL trolls, or people who were curious for 5 minutes or were invited and joined, but don’t have any real interest in the EDL and probably don’t even go on the group. As the EDL has never managed more than 2000 people at an event and about 700 – 1000 at the last three, that gives an idea as to the numbers of active EDL.

In my experience the idea that the EDL is a general reflection of the demographics of society is a mixture of propaganda and wishful thinking. The EDLers who make their opinions known tend to be racist, violent or religious maniacs. You get the odd one who genuinely is concerned about Islamic extremism, but most aren’t. On the EDL Facebook group topics of conversation involve the persecution and killing of Muslims (the admins do not delete these), hatred of immigrants and regurgitating what it says in the Daily Mail and Daily Star and getting into a rage about it. Which of course sparks off more hatred against Muslims and other minorities. Even on here we can see that. One of the admins said the EDL were going to take Leicester back for white indigenous people.

Then finally we have the stereotyping of opponents, as demonstrated by yourself and others (ironic seeing as you accuse others of stereotyping you). These are always the following:
1. Opposition is “Neo-Marxist”
2. They want Britain to become an Islamic state
3. They are all students with no life experience
4. They are filthy and don’t wash
5. They support paedophilia
6. They are ignorant and haven’t “woken up”
7. They are “dhimmis” who want to be dominated by Islam

That is generally what the EDL say about anyone who questions them. Of course it’s as true as saying the EDL are all hardcore neo-Nazis (although there is probably more truth in that). There is no “Neo-Marxist agenda” here, just people like you trying to create an “enemy” against which you must fight to “save” Britain.

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“did Hitler have a gay division or a Sikh division”?

A number of senior nazis were gay (most famously the SA leader Ernst Rohm) and there was an Indian Legion in the German army.

Any your point is?

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