UK: Muslim bookstall in Cradley Heath market in West Midland.

1“We have the bookstall to raise awareness of our work in Britain and in the local community we are proud to be British Muslims and this incident saddened us. Our motto is 'Love for All - Hatred for None' and we do not meet violence with violence so we just stood there and did not respond to the provocation."

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By MOL/PKH |  October 18, 2011

At least 25 thugs from the British far-right anti-Muslim English Defence League (EDL) group have attacked a Muslim bookstall in Cradley Heath market in West Midland.

The EDL thugs launched a shocking raid on the local Ahmaddiya Muslim bookstall and Qur'an exhibition this weekend, triggering hatred among shoppers, many of them women and children, British media reported.

Toby Ephram, Ahmadiyya outreach worker, described the incident, which happened at 2:30 pm on Saturday.

"About 25 of the EDL group stormed our stall in Cradley Heath pushing, shoving and threatening our members.”


“We have the bookstall to raise awareness of our work in Britain and in the local community we are proud to be British Muslims and this incident saddened us. Our motto is 'Love for All - Hatred for None' and we do not meet violence with violence so we just stood there and did not respond to the provocation", Ephram said.

The incident was condemned by Halesowen and Rowley Regis MP, James Morris, who branded it as an ignorant and mindless attack.

"The people storming the stall may claim that they are defending their English identity, but tolerance for other people's views and beliefs has long been a key part of what it means to be English. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Cradley Heath actively works to help different sections of our society to live peacefully alongside each other, whatever their religion," said the MP.

"This mindless attack is absolutely deplorable and can only have been caused by ignorance of the views and action of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community locally," he added.

The English Defence League is the most significant far-right street movement in Britain, which has been established to target UK's Muslim communities. The group has so far sparked some of Britain's most violent street clashes through its members' anti-social behaviour. It was recently implicated in a terrorist attack in Norway, in which dozens of people were killed.


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