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Post by Professor Cold Heart on Aug 12, 2010 14:35:11 GMT -5
The English Defense League - a group dedicated to peacefully protesting militant Islam, who have an unfortunate tendency to start riots - are planning to take their business to the Muslim-heavy city of Bradford on August 28 to protest the building of a mosque, or something. Quite the debate going on - right to protest vs. likelihood of a massive riot.
A bunch of EDLers have posted promo videos on youtube hyping the event. This one's my favourite - odd choice of music for a peaceful protest, dontchathink?
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Post by cestlefun17 on Aug 12, 2010 14:41:17 GMT -5
English Defense League?? Sounds like an Official-English group, not an anti-Muslim group. Worst of luck to them though!
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Post by Thejebusfire on Aug 12, 2010 14:42:15 GMT -5
I was exepcting death metal.
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Post by Dragon Zachski on Aug 13, 2010 20:31:35 GMT -5
They sound like a bunch of racist Anonymous-wannabes.
Also, I'm not sure, is the Mosque being built by actual Islamic extremists? I highly doubt that.
Either way, this is going to be a huge waste of money and resources.
Also, boo to them for using a great song for their annoying campaign.
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Post by tolpuddlemartyr on Aug 13, 2010 20:51:23 GMT -5
Looks like a clothing outlet marketing their wares to football hooligans.
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Post by scotsgit on Aug 14, 2010 0:38:29 GMT -5
If they're the English Defence League, why is there motto in Latin, the language of a people who came to these shores with far from peaceful intentions?
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Post by Dragon Zachski on Aug 14, 2010 1:28:41 GMT -5
If they're the English Defence League, why is there motto in Latin, the language of a people who came to these shores with far from peaceful intentions? Because using an ancient, dead language makes you seem intelligent or scientific. |
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Post by scotsgit on Aug 14, 2010 10:48:44 GMT -5
If they're the English Defence League, why is there motto in Latin, the language of a people who came to these shores with far from peaceful intentions? Because using an ancient, dead language makes you seem intelligent or scientific. What's wrong with Gaelic, Manx or Welsh then? |
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Post by safaraz on Aug 14, 2010 12:53:53 GMT -5
Because using an ancient, dead language makes you seem intelligent or scientific. What's wrong with Gaelic, Manx or Welsh then? Or Old English? |
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Post by tehpogo on Aug 14, 2010 13:33:46 GMT -5
I once saw an EDL video which used Revolution by The Beatles as its theme music. These guys honestly have no sense of irony.
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Post by Professor Cold Heart on Aug 14, 2010 13:44:19 GMT -5
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Post by Dragon Zachski on Aug 14, 2010 14:10:54 GMT -5
Because using an ancient, dead language makes you seem intelligent or scientific. What's wrong with Gaelic, Manx or Welsh then? Those are PAGAN languages!! Used by witches and warlocks and satanists! |
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Post by Sandafluffoid on Aug 14, 2010 14:57:53 GMT -5
Well, if you want a precursor to English, presumably the English Defence League would, then you're going to want something somewhere between Old-English and Proto-West Germanic. You could argue for Proto-Indo-European or Proto-Germanic but that's being a little silly really. If, however, you take 'English' to refer to the geographical region of England rather than the culture loosely assembled from various vaguely-Germanic and slightly-more-Italic-than-Germanic peoples then you probably want the language of the Beaker culture. It might be related to Basque and Iberian, but then again it might well not be, nobody really knows. It's almost certainly not related to Modern English in any meaningful way, but that's about all we can say with any degree of certainty.
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Post by scotsgit on Aug 15, 2010 0:02:16 GMT -5
What's wrong with Gaelic, Manx or Welsh then? Those are PAGAN languages!! Used by witches and warlocks and satanists! I'd love to see someone from the EDL arguing that with some members of the Highland regiments. Personally speaking, I'd give them one chance in a million of surviving. |
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Post by Professor Cold Heart on Aug 20, 2010 13:27:21 GMT -5
Any UKers catch the Channel 4 news report where the EDL leader, who uses the pseudonym Tommy Robinson, revealed himself to be Stephen Yaxley-Lennon? Hope Not Hate has already outed Yaxley-Lennon. Bizarrely, the EDL webpage has a report claiming that Tommy Robinson is actually Paul Harris, amidst ravings about "the unpatriotic Anti-English, Anti- Democratic, Anti-Jew and Islamist loving ranks of the unwashed". God knows what's going on there. EDIT: Apparently C4 used the name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon by mistake and at the end (which I didn't catch) acknowledged that his name's Paul Harris. Somebody really screwed up there. |
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