Far-right groups from the US and Europe host anti-Muslim rally in Sweden that flops again
On August 4, far-right anti-Islam fringe but vocal groups from across Europe and the United States staged a rally in the Swedish capital, Stockholm, which attracted only 200 people, according to Reuters news agency while the Associated Press put the numbers to 100 only. This was the second flopped rally of the Euro-US far-right groups. On March 31, 2011, an anti-Islam gathering in Denmark's second city, Aarhus, had attracted fewer than 200 supporters compared with thousands of counter demonstrators.
Reuters said the Stockholm rally by European and U.S. far-right groups seeking to create a global "counter-jihad" movement attracted fewer than 200 people who were outnumbered by anti-racist protesters. Police said the rival demonstration was kept apart from the far-right rally and drew a few hundred people, a small number of whom were detained.
In February 2012, the British newspaper, Independent, quoted Weyman Bennett, spokesman for pressure group Unite Against Fascism, as saying: " We should not forget that it was the Norwegian Defense League that gave us [Anders] Brevik. The growth of a Euro-league in a time of economic crisis threatens to resurrect fascist street armies such as those that destroyed European democracies in the 1930s. The development of this network allows fascists and right-wing populists to share ideas, finance and experience in a way that should worry us all.
Nottingham University's Matthew Goodwin, an expert on British far-right militant groups, was quoted by AP as saying that the Stockholm meeting was of strategic importance despite the modest turnout. "The attending are quite significant figures within the anti-jihad movement. It signifies the strengthening links between counter-jihad groups and anti-Muslim groups within Europe and the United States."
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"US anti-Muslim bloggers and co-founders of Stop Islamization of America, Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller participated in the rally."
The far-right never stops agitating against anyone who does not look or think like them. True in Europe and in the US.