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EDL leader Tommy Robinson, who today said he

Controversy as EDL leader asked to speak at Oxford Union

Tommy Robinson, co-founder and current leader of the English Defence League, has been invited to debate at Oxford Union.

Sermons preached in mosques will do nothing to prevent child sex abuse in south Asian communities

There is no doubting the good intentions of Together Against Grooming, but their actions will only reinforce anti-Islamic assumptions and distract from the real issues

EDL leaders bailed after attempt to visit spot where Drummer Lee Rigby was killed

Two English Defence League (EDL) leaders arrested as they attempted to visit the spot where Drummer Lee Rigby was murdered have been released on bail.

Nigel Farage is facing further questions about Ukip’s vetting tonight after it emerged that two of his party officials attended a demonstration organised by a far-right group

Nigel Farage faces further questions over Ukip’s vetting as two officials linked to far-right party rally

Nigel Farage is facing further questions about Ukip’s vetting tonight after it emerged that two of his party officials attended a demonstration organised by a far-right group.

Why is the left so blinkered to Islamic extremism?

A report calls out the left for embracing fundamentalists

Anti-Ground Zero Mosque campaigners Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer, pictured in 2012, have been barred from entering Britain

Anti-Ground Zero Mosque campaigners Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer barred from entering Britain to speak at an EDL rally

Theresa May said activists' presence in the UK would 'not be conducive to the public good'

Right-wing American speakers planning to join the EDL's Woolwich march 'should be banned from entering the country'

Keith Vaz calls on the Home Secretary to ban the founders of Jihad Watch and the American Freedom Defence Initiative who hope to join the EDL's march in memory of Drummer Lee Rigby

EDL leader Tommy Robinson, who today said he

EDL leader Tommy Robinson 'utterly condemns' attacks on Muslims

Robinson also says his groups tactics are 'completely questionable' but claims it contains no Nazis

The EDL and Islamic extremists are two different problems - but the solution is the same

The root cause that separates people in any society is ignorance leading to fear of unknown. We must use the knowledge of local communities at a national level

Fire at London Islamic school: Four teenagers arrested over blaze at Darul Uloom Islamic boarding school in Chislehurst

Four teenagers have been arrested over a fire at an Islamic School which saw 182 staff and pupils evacuated and two treated for smoke inhalation.

(L-R) Jewel Uddin, Mohammed Saud, Mohammed Hasseen, Zohaib Ahmed, Omar Khan and Anzal Hussain pleaded guilty to plotting to attack an EDL rally

Islamist gang of six jailed for at least 18 years each for plotting bomb attack on EDL rally

Attack of this kind risks starting spiral of tit-for-tat violence, says judge

Woolwich: Muslims are just as afraid as non-Muslims that these attacks will never stop

It's two weeks since the murder of Lee Rigby and every time I've turned on a news programme since, it isn’t long until the conversation turns to that day

Michael Adebolajo, taking part in an Islamist demonstration in 2007

Police charge Michael Adebolajo with murder of Drummer Lee Rigby and attempted murder of two police officers

Police have charged a second man with the murder of the soldier Lee Rigby in Woolwich last Wednesday.

BNP leader Nick Griffin urges supporters to ignore police ban on planned march at scene of Drummer Lee Rigby's brutal murder

BNP leader tweets: 'Ignore reports of march ban. See you there on Saturday'

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