The International Civil Liberties Alliance and its supporters continue to post material from the ICLA meeting at the European Parliament earlier this week.

A video of EDL leader Stephen Lennon's speech is now online. Not that it provides any fresh insights into the mindset of this whining, self-pitying little bigot, although it does underline the fact that he's a lying toerag. Lennon got a round of applause for his claim that the EDL repudiates the neo-Nazis of the National Front ("Islamism and Nazism, opposite sides of the same coin to us"). You can only suppose his audience was unaware of the EDL's joint demonstration with the NF in Newcastle last month during which they launched a violent attack on a peaceful anti-Jubilee party.

Assisting "Tommy" with the microphone in the above screenshot is Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff, who was convicted on a charge of anti-Muslim hate speech in Austria last year. Another participant was Lars Hedegaard, whose own conviction for inciting hatred against Muslims in Denmark was recently overturned on a technicality. Hedegaard was presented with the ICLA's "Defender of Freedom Award" at the meeting in recognition of his role in stoking Islamophobia.

Another speaker, whose warning to the meeting on the dangers of sharia ("Freedom of religion, if it means that any form of religion can have its way, is a recipe for civil war") is being enthusiastically promoted on the ICLA website, was Hans Jansen, a man who openly advocates the use of violence against Muslims. No doubt he and Lennon found they had a lot in common.

Lars Hedegaard reports that the room for the meeting was booked by the Belgian far-right party Vlaams Belang, which recently made the news when some of its members were accused of intimidating children during an anti-halal protest at a school barbecue.

It would be difficult to assemble a more poisonous collection of European Islamophobes.

National Front and EDL hold joint demonstration in Newcastle last month – apparently 'Tommy' knows nothing about it

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Far right members from organisations in Germany, Sweden and the UK attended a meeting in the European Parliament on 9 July at which literature was sold to attendees.

While one keynote speaker described how "The pansy left are auditioning to be the Muslim's prison b*tch" and said the mainstream media represented "a threat to life and liberty."

The same speaker stated: "A society which becomes more Muslim becomes less everything else."

There was a surprise for Members of the European Parliament this morning when a secret meeting of Europe's far right was held in the parliament. The meeting, listed as Non Inscrit Meeting, and not appearing on the usual schedules, was a gathering of Islamaphobes and included as guest speaker, Tommy Robinson, leader of the English Defence League (EDL), and used the name of International Civil Liberties Alliance as a cover.

Robinson, looking sweaty and nervous, claimed that Luton was the centre of a plot by the Islamic world to bring Britain under their authority.

The EDL has been in decline recently, with smaller crowds at their more infrequent demonstrations and a series of splits. Robinson was speaking as Deputy Leader of the British Freedom Party, whose leader couldn't make the gathering. The party is believed to have less than 200 paying members.

Richard Howitt MEP who has criticised attempts to form different European 'defence leagues' by the EDL using their Facebook page said about today's meeting:

"This is yet one more failed attempt by the EDL to find European partners as they just cannot spread their roots in the UK.

"In the same way Nick Griffin and the BNP tried to use the European Parliament as a spring board and failed abysmally, the EDL will find they are badly out-of-their-depth.

"I have written to the President of the European Parliament to complain about the use of our facilities to raise funds for such hate organisations and to investigate whether other meetings are planned."

New Europe, 9 July 2012

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