London cancelled the March anti-IslamMa the police prepares for possible clashes

Their goal was clear but – at least according to the British policy – dangerous: protest against ' Islamic ' in the London district populated by the largest Muslim community in the United Kingdom. Judging risky the project of the members of the English Defence League, now, it was Theresa May, the Minister of the Interior, who feared possible clashes and riots less than a month of riots that have affected the capital. So the March scheduled for tomorrow at Tower Hamlets has been cancelled. With great relief for the local population, the Mayor of the borough and for leaders of the Islamic and Jewish communities.

Yet on their site, sympathizers of the EDL you give anyway appointment in neighborhood pubs and promise – as the March is banned – a ' static ' event. The Indymedia network, Socialist Worker, and many other left groups promise of counter-demonstrations. So, tomorrow, the risk is that the police fulfil, on both sides, "kettling" technique of containment of the crowd already seen on the streets of London during the student protests when the protesters were encircled and left without water, food and toilet also for hours.

The English Defence League is a far-right group founded in Luton, North of London, in 2009. At the moment boasts a few thousand members throughout England. The EDL is said "non-racist Association, multireligious and multiracial ', but, by statute, is opposed to Islamic radicalism. Now the EDL, always on his site, claims that have prevented the manifestation of tomorrow was a "big mistake". And, with the post "ten reasons to prove at Tower Hamlet", suggests their subscribers to carry on anyway, on that day, some form of protest is not static. A March on London with cries of "Allah is the evil», to put it mildly.

But the decision of the Minister of the Interior, however, came after a request from the same Metropolitan Police who feared to racial unrest tomorrow. The May said it would defend ' communities and their property "and that the ban is the best tactic to prevent every problem. To applaud his decision also Nick Lowles, Searchlight, a magazine "against fascism and racism". Second Lowles, "this is a victory of common sense". Because, in many today in England, it cannot extinguish a fire buttandoci over gasoline.

Yet other associations were levelled against the ban, valid for the next thirty days. The fear is that oppose a group judged by many little democratic with equally undemocratic means is not the most productive move. And the Council for the future is to try to organize counter-demonstrations able to oppose the ideology underlying the EDL – certainly not in the direction of inclusivity and multiculturalism – showing the people what the true feelings of most Britons.

At the beginning of August the Minister, had banned a March at Telford who was holding the same, although without incident. Of course, that bond emerged with the right-wing terrorist Anders Behring Breivik, the slayer of Oslo and Utoya, does not help the members of the EDL. On his Facebook page and on his manifesto, repeatedly Breivik had praised the work of the group, however, after the Norwegians had immediately distanced himself. And on the website of the English Defence League continues to be followed with great attention the investigation.

di Matteo Impera