But why demonstrate about these inequalities? Write about them, debate them, vote for change, set up a new political party if necessary to express your point of view (if you feel the mainstream is not listening) but why close down whole town centres on Saturdays when the poor old shopkeepers there are suffering enough anyway from the global recession without your presence there? If you want to stop extreme Islamism, join the British army and go murder the Taliban. If you can't join the army, then become an activist. Crowds are not as powerful politically as they used to be - you'll make more progress by setting up an EDL stall beside an Al Muhajiroun dawah stall on Tooting Broadway or Wimbledon High Street these days or taking down an Islamist website.

I have made clear in the past that the EDL's strategy is wrong.

Both the UAF and the EDL are being played and they should wake up and smell the coffee.

To become what they were set up to be, the UAF needs to distance itself from its Islamist allies and the EDL needs to demarcate itself completely from the BNP and other far right groups. These should be two straightforward steps. Alas, all that happens is the two groups try to smear each other.

If the two groups were clever, they'd see the Halloween Shari'ah March as an opportunity to ally against the real enemy amongst us. After all, the real fascists marching that day will be Islam4UK. If at the recent protests between the UAF and the EDL Hitler's Waffen SS had marched on by, would both groups have waved them on? This Halloween Islam4UK march is a perfect scenario to roll out the lesser of two evils principle and unite in abhorrence at what Al Muhajiroun is proposing.

The hypocrisies of the UAF will be on full show if the EDL do turn up on Halloween Saturday to protest against Islam4UK and the UAF support the extreme Islamists. Human rights, xenophobia, free-expression, feminism, homosexuality, democracy, abortion - all championed in the past by leftist politicians and incompatible with the Shari'ah law proposed by either Islam4UK or the UAF's Islamist friends. EDL will be strengthened massively if the UAF is shown to be cavorting with Islamonazis.

This is likely to become a big first test for the Black Red alliance; the odd Islamist Leftist compact that exists for lack of other bedfellows. A really uncomfortable day for them. Leftist friends from the past like Stonewall (the enemy of Islamists) will be looking on and will be furious unless the UAF articulates itself far more clearly than it has done in the past. It could be a fascinating Saturday if the authorities allow it to go ahead and all three factions actually show up.

Hopefully the Islam4UK march will be banned by the authorities and the UAF will not have to face such quandaries (which are capable of destroying its very soul). Social cohesion should and must always come first. Then everyone can enjoy Halloween for what it is - a secular festival which is an excuse to dress up, carve pumpkins, trick or treat and generally make fun of all things terror.

As for Trafalgar Square, well it does need a bit of sprucing up. With their designs, Islam4UK could have unwittingly provided the Aunt Sally town planners were looking for. Whilst Nelson must remain forever, why not a rainbow statue to celebrate Britain's gay community, a column for Cheryl Cole and other independently successful British women, and, finally, a fountain to celebrate all those thousands of immigrants who have come to Britain, added to the nation's rich fabric and assimilated into British Society, recognising it is one of the most liberated societies on the planet. If anything, Britain needs liberating further not having itself dragged back into the Dark Ages by a bunch of sadistic half-wits wearing black sheets, crazy beards and pyjamas cut above the ankle in expectation of floods. 

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