Racist transnational alliances could infiltrate our US government. The English Defense League – which warns that Islamic fundamentalism will soon engulf Britain and which protests have sometimes turned into clashes with the police – is seeking alliances with some U.S. figures taking a similar Islamophobic stance. Figures like Rabbi Nachum Shifren, a long-shot Republican candidate for the California state legislature, plans to visit England next week in a trip sponsored in part by the EDL. The trip is organized by Roberta Moore, an English Defense League activist who has formed a “Jewish division” of the group. She said the rabbi will speak at an Oct. 24 rally in London. Shifren has given talks at Tea Party events. In a Washington Post article, he said: “I see England going down and I want to cry out and do everything I can to prevent that, to work with the EDL.” The English Defense League has also reached out to Pamela Geller, who started her crusade against the Islamic center near Ground Zero through her group, Stop Islamization of America.
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