Nigel Farage has compared masked Muslim protesters marching through the streets of east London to a “foreign invading army.”
Today, the leader of Reform UK spoke out against the individuals in balaclavas who said they were “uniting” while chanting a series of messages in Arabic.
He said that Saturday’s Tower Hamlets protest, which came after police stopped a planned UKIP protest to “reclaim” the neighborhood, was “one of the most terrifying things I’ve ever seen in my life.”
A lot of young guys dressed in black, their hoods up and their faces covered, walked about carrying flags from Bangladesh and Palestine where UKIP had planned to march.
A protester at the Whitechapel demonstration took the mic and promised to “stand firm” in protecting his neighborhood.
“They came specifically to attack Islam,” he claimed. ‘ They stated, “We are going on a crusade,” and “We need to take back our streets.”
“We stand firm to let them know that if you come, we will stand firm and be ready to protect our elders, our women, and our community.”
“We’ve never claimed we were going to crusades or to your neighborhoods to cause you trouble.
Today, Nigel Farage spoke out against the balaclava-wearing guys who said they were “uniting” while chanting a series of messages in Arabic.
People in east London are out on the streets, and one man raises his fist in the air while the other talks into a microphone.
As one man talks into a microphone, another man raises his fist in the air. People from the community are out on the streets of east London.
“You want to give us difficulties by intruding into our homes. What is wrong with us getting up?
“Today is the day we come together.”
Before the march, a community leader sold £5 balaclavas to his “Muslim brothers” and told them to get ready.
He told protesters to conceal their faces so the police couldn’t see them and stated, “No face, no case.”
The seller said, “What’s going on with my people?” If you need it on Saturday, inshallah, it will be £5 apiece in all of our stores. Please start buying them now, brothers. I don’t want you to come the day before and find out we don’t have any left.
“I want to be able to help with this for the ends, inshallah.” I like this one because the others make Muslims appear like criminals with the eye and all that.
“Please, my brothers, come and buy it now so I can get more in stock to help everyone for the day… get them on.”
Mr. Farage said that Tower Hamlets, which has the highest concentration of Muslim residents in the UK, was experiencing “proper racism.”
People from the Bangladeshi community praying during a counter-protest outside a mosque in East London
People from the Bangladeshi community praying outside an east London mosque during a counter-demonstration
Reports said that guys wearing balaclavas chanted, “We will honor all our martyrs.”
“God is great.” “Get the Zionist scum off our streets.”
Mr. Farage said, “This was intimidation to the point of basically calling for the mass killing of a lot of Jewish people.”
“It’s one of the scariest things I’ve ever seen in my life.”
“Maybe one day the deluded left will wake up and realize they’ve been with some very strange people.”
He said, “It was like an army from another country marching through our streets.”
“And I dare anyone in this room to say that’s wrong.”
Mr. Farage also talked about the angry reaction to one of his MPs, Sarah Pochin, who had said that there were too many black and Asian individuals in TV ads.
After declaring “it drives me mad when I see ads full of black people, full of Asian people,” Reform MP Sarah Pochin apologized.
The party head claimed that Ms. Pochin’s words were “wrong,” “ugly,” and “phrased poorly,” but he wouldn’t call them “racist.”
Zia Yusuf, the head of party policy, said yesterday that the comments made by his “close friend” should be taken in context and that she had made a “valid point.”
After winning in Runcorn and Helsby in May, Ms. Pochin became the party’s first MP to win a by-election.
But on Saturday she said she was sorry and said that what she said last week was “phrased poorly.”
Talk TV aired the comments in response to a viewer who didn’t like the way modern advertising targets certain groups of people.
Ms. Pochin agreed with the caller, adding they were “absolutely right” and “it drives me crazy when I see ads full of black people and Asian people.”
Wes Streeting, the Secretary of Health, termed the comments “disgraceful” and “racist.”
The Liberal Democrats, on the other hand, wanted Ms. Pochin to lose the party whip, which would mean she would have to sit as an independent MP in the Commons.
Ms. Pochin subsequently remarked, “A study paid for by Channel 4 as part of its Mirror On The Industry project found that Black people were in more than half of all ads in 2022, a big jump from 37 percent in 2020 after the Black Lives Matter movement.”
The 2021 Census says that Black people make up about four percent of the population in England and Wales.
“Representation in advertising should reflect the diversity of modern Britain, but it should also be proportionate and include everyone.
“I made those comments in that context, and I still believe that equality should mean fairness for everyone.”
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