On Sunday the 11th June I attended the UK Against Hatred demonstration in Manchester. The demonstration was originally planned as a silent march to commemorate the LGBT victims of the Islamic terrorist who murdered 49 people in the Pulse gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. The event has been planned for a while by a bunch of LGBT patriots and conservatives and has been vehemently opposed by the LGBT Left. The LGBT Left has done all in its power to try to discredit this event and the organisers along with trying to divert attention to the truly murderous attitudes to LGBT people in the Islamic world. Sadly, the Pink News, one of the main organs of LGBT news in the UK has been cheerleading the Leftists and ignoring the plight of LGBT people who live under Islamic rule.
Although the event was originally planned to be a silent march about Orlando, public anger recent events such as the Islamic atrocities at Westminster, Manchester and London Bridge, along with the ongoing problems of Islamic Rape Gangs in many towns and cities, meant that this demonstration became a more general one about Shariah Law and other Islam-related problems. The mood of the demonstrators, as can be guessed from the scale of the problems that we are facing, could be fairly described as ‘seething but peaceful’. Yes there were a few football style chants targeting ISIS and chants targeting the police at the muster point, along with a bit of pushing at the front, when people were effectively ‘kettled’ under a railway bridge at the start. The anti-police chants, mostly on the lines of ‘you are not English any more’, were in response to a perception that the police are are doing very little to help the mostly working class communities, that are suffering under high levels of crime, including intimidation and sex crime from Muslims, whilst at the same time pandering to Islamic political and religious interests. On the whole the anti Sharia demonstrators of Unite Against Hatred were relatively peaceful, if a little loud.
The march eventually moved off about 20 or so minutes late and made it’s way to Picaddilly Gardens where a rally was held. On this route there were counter demonstrators from the Left, which was expected, and equally as expected it was the Left who were the most aggressive and violent. One Leftist threw a bottle at the march completely oblivious to the fact that there were a variety of ordinary people on this march, including families with children.
I must say that the police handled certain aspects of this event really badly. The muster point under the Piccadilly station railway bridge seemed to have been picked for the express reason that it would be intimidating to newcomers to demonstrations. The police also were officious and over zealous and kettled both journalist and demonstrator alike under the bridge.
The failures of the police were evident in how they dealt with the positioning of the anti-Shariah demonstrators and the far Left. The police allowed the far Left to hold their counter demonstration in the same public square as the anti Shariah demonstrators which enraged many of those attending the Unite Against Hatred march. The far Left was allowed to scream obscenities and smears at the speakers, which included ex Muslims, feminists and campaigners such as Tommy Robinson. Of course in a democracy, counter protests should be facilitated, but these counter protesters were placed in the worst possible place, whether this is by malice or incompetence on the part of the police, is debatable.
The crowd at the rally was huge when compared to previous rallies against Shariah Law, I’d guess that there were about 3000 people there, which compares well with the first PEGIDA march in Birmingham, which I observed and which drew roughly about one quarter of that number. There was only relatively minor violence at this event and what little there was seemed to be either perpetrated by the Leftist opponents or were the result of Leftist baiting and incitement along with the police’s obvious bad attitude towards this event. As a veteran of many demonstrations and similar events, I would say that the small amount of trouble that I saw could have been prevented by properly separating the opposing groups. That the police did not think to do this shows either incompetence or political bias.
I noticed a stark difference between the types of demonstrators on each side. The Leftists seemed to be mainly students, from the various LGBT groups at Manchester Universities. These groups I know have a stranglehold on LGBT activism in the area and among students and it does not surprise me to find that they are defending Islam, even though in many parts of the world the followers of this ideology are murdering LGBT people. Among the counter demonstrators of the far Left were the usual ‘brew crew’ types, the violent drunks and smack heads along with a few antfa and antifa ‘plastics’. I believe (at least it seemed so from my physical viewpoint on the edge of the rally) that the one serious incident, the throwing of a ‘flash-bang’, a military style pryrotechnic, was down to the Left.
It has to be noted that there were considerably less far Leftists than there were Unite Against Hatred demonstrators. On the other hand, the difference between the Leftists and the Unite Against Hatred demonstrators was stark. The UK Against Hatred demonsrators were not, as far as I could make out, made up of the professional protesting classes, something which the far Left present obviously were. The majority of the UK Against Hatred demonstrators were just ordinary people, decent people, who are angry and concerned about what the ideology of Islam is doing to their towns and cities, their children and their nation. I got the impression from talking to people and listening to them, that things had got so bad in the places that they lived, that they felt that they had to turn out even though they were not regular demonstrators. ‘I’m here for my child’s future’ was a refrain I heard several times and knowing of the existence of Islamic Rape Gangs in many parts of the country and the violent Muslims in the schools, I can well understand why they are saying that.
Apart from the, very localised, minor aggro, which appeared to be started by the Left and exacerbated by the actions of the Police, this event looks like a stunning success for the organisers. They’ve managed to get many more people than have turned out for similar events and the diversity of people who marched is astounding. There were LGBT people, secularists, visible ethnic minorities, Jews, Christians, Hindus, Sikhs, ex Muslims and others, as well as working class White British people. I’m not surprised to see a large number of working class Britons there, as after all it is they who have so often had to bear the brunt of the Islam-related problems that have been dumped on them by the multiculturalists of both Whitehall and Town Hall.
The reporting of this event by the mainstream media has been disgracefully dishonest when compared to what I saw. The BBC for example tried to pass this off as an English Defence League event which is plainly was not, although some former members of the EDL were involved in planning the event.
Brietbart London covered on their site today the appalling dishonesty of the BBC in referring tothis event as ‘far right’. That the BBC said this despite the event being attended by and supported a very wide variety of people, many of whom would not be said at a genunie ‘far right’ march. It is testimony to the lack of trouble on the part of the UK Against Hatred demonstrators that a hijabed Muslim woman was able to stand with the demonstrators and debate with individuals and a Haredi Jew could watch the event from the sidelines and not be molested by the demonstrators. I’ve never seen a ‘far right’ demonstration where that happened.
Brietbart, quite rightly on this occasion, called the BBC ‘fake news’ and said:
The Unite Against Hate march, organised by Gays Against Sharia, has been branded a “far right” protest by the BBC, the broadcaster whitewashing reports of violent “anti-racists” throwing bottles and flares at the march organised by gay, Sikh, and black speakers.
The march through Manchester was organised to “honour the victims of hate” following the suicide attack by Salman Abedi who killed 22 and injured 116 at an Ariana Grande concert on May 22, 2017.
The march also marked the death of 49 people who lost their lives at Pulse – a gay club in Orlando, Florida, at the hands of an Islamic terrorist on June 12, 2016.
The event hosted black and minority ethnic (BAME) speakers, such as Sikh Awareness Society leader Mohan Singh, minister David Ramos, Shazia Hobbs, a Glaswegian who was forced into an arranged marriage at 18, and Mohammed Fiaz, a Christian convert from Islam.
“We will say ‘no more’, we will walk in silence through the city to honour the dead, we will rally to demand action, we will make ourselves impossible to ignore,” the organisers of Unite Against Hate wrote.
However, the BBC largely ignored the reported 3,500 diverse supporters attending the march that met in Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester, rather reporting falsely the event was an “EDL rally”, focusing on the “anti-racist” counter marches.
BBC North West tweeted: “Bottles and flares thrown during tense stand-off in Manchester after march organised by far right groups confronted by 100’s of anti-racists.”
Reports by the BBC imply bottles and flares were thrown by the so-called “far right” group of BAME and LGBT attendees, with others reporting from the ground saying the projectiles were thrown by the “anti-racists”, one allegedly hitting a 12-year-old child.
I’m appalled to see the BBC so eager to distort the truth about a situation like this. The BBC appear to have taken a press release from the far Leftists behind the counterprotest and have regurgitated it verbatim. This is blatant leftist propaganda by the BBC and it is scandalous that not only are they pumping this stuff out but that we are also forced to pay for it via our TV licences.
My overall impression of the event was that the UK Against Hatred demonstration has done just that. It has brought together many people from a variety of different backgrounds, lifestyles, skin colours and belief systems and united them against the hatred that is so prevalent and vehement in Islamic religious texts and which is increasingly found in Islamic communities both at home and abroad. This didn’t look or feel to me like the genuine far right demonstrations that I have encountered in the past. This was ordinary and decent gays, women, Christians, Jews, Hindus, Sikhs and others, recognising that they all have a common enemy in an ideology which so frequently and vehemently states that it wants such people dead or enslaved. Someone once said that one of the most valuable lessons that could be learned from the Nazi Holocaust was that when someone says ‘I want to kill you all’ then it would pay you well to believe them and fight them if possible. The UK Against Hatred demonstration was, in my view, plainly made up of people who understand that the violence espoused by Islam is no different from the violence and hatred expressed by the Nazis. They have recognised that it is wise to believe those who threaten you extermination and have bravely decided decided to take to the streets to fight back by saying ‘no more’.
There now follows a series of videos shot by various individuals at the United Against Hatred march
Tommy Robinson police stitch up video
Far Left allowed to harangue UK Against Hatred march on return to dispersal point
Brilliant speech by the author Shazia Hobbs
Racist antifascist protesters schooled by sorted patriotic Black man. Objects to being called a ‘Nazi’ by the antifa crusties.
Video shot by the Fahrenheit211 blog. Apologies for sound drop out but had some technical gremlins
Godless Spellchecker’s 25 minute video montage of the event. Interesting to see the mindless Left wingers and barely religiously educated Muslims who cannot debate but merely regurgitate platitudes and slogans or just plain BS. Also interesting to see are the ordinary people who refuse to be slienced by screamed accusations of ‘racism’. Notably the Leftists were considerably more middle class than the UK Against Hate protesters. Some of the protesters had had enough of Islam and this was plainly visible in their tone and their words.
Tommy Robinson’s speech
Lying press call Manchester rally ‘far right video by Simon Harris
