L’English Defence League expose sur son site (en anglais), en termes enthousiastes et amicaux, sa participation aux côtés du Bloc Identitaire, au “Rassemblement pour la Liberté” du 14 mai 2011.

EDL Leadership Team attends March of the Pigs

France is well known for its cuisine, as it plays a major role in their culture. So imagine the shock and anger of the French when a popular burger chain withdrew all pork products from its establishments.

The restaurants in question, Quick (which is the French equivalent to McDonalds), faced demands that all pork products be removed from 22 of its outlets. France may have a much larger Muslim population than the UK (around 12%), but that in no way justifies these demands. Why is it that a minority group should have so much influence on what ordinary French people can and can’t eat?

What makes matter worse is the fact that Quick actually caved into the pressure! Perhaps, then, it shouldn’t have come as a surprise that Quick burgers are halal. Of course, Quick customers have been consuming halal meat for years, but it was only after the wave of controversy following the ban on pork that this actually came to light. Like in Britain, French consumers have been deceived.

As France is slowly flooded with Muslim immigrants, the demand for halal meat is steadily rising. This might not have been a problem had it not been for the hard-line and uncompromising Islamic jurists who are not only breeding hostility against the people of France, but are using the issue of halal meat as a political weapon. They are purposefully defining halal in such strict terms that it cannot even be served in the same establishment as food that it is considered haram (or not permitted). They have made the issue of halal meat and no-pork restaurants into a front in the battle against radical Islam.

Luckily, there are groups in France who will stand up against radical Islam in all its forms. Bloc Identitaire (who joined us for our Luton demonstration) are one such group. And on Saturday 14th May, in Lyon, they made a stand.

De gauche à droite Philippe Vardon, Tommy Robinson, Fabrice Robert.

La Marche des Cochons (the March of the Pigs) was France’s answer to continued Islamisation, radical Islam, and the politicians’ continued failure to seriously address the problem. Members of the EDL Leadership Team (including Tommy Robinson and Kevin Carroll) were in attendance.

The demonstration drew upwards of 1000 people, and Tommy was invited to join Bloc Identitaire President Fabrice Robert in addressing the crowd.

He quoted both Charles de Gaulle and Winston Churchill – leaders who once fought an evil ideology, but who never gave up their faith in either Britain or France, and who helped both our countries achieve a lasting victory.

Today we face a new enemy. But the ideology of radical Islam is just as dangerous and repulsive as that of the Nazism, if not more so.

Luckily, the French have taken to the battle against radical Islam with good humour. They’ve used Facebook to organise street parties that celebrate French culture – a direct response to Muslim groups regularly illegally blocking the streets for prayers.

And at Saturday’s demonstration fluffy pigs and pink balloons were the order of the day.

Unfortunately anyone demonstrating against the Islamofascist ideology of radical Islam is often met by the same shabby collection of so-called counter protesters. In Britain we have the UAF and the MDL, and in France, it seems, they have their own equivalents.

After Tommy’s speech, as the crowd dispersed, a group of Muslim youths and far-Left agitators clashed briefly with a section of the crowd that Tommy found himself in the middle of. Luckily the police were on hand to remove the troublemakers and separate the two groups. Tommy and a large group of French patriots were put onto buses by the police, and held for a couple of hours whilst the crowds near the demonstration site dispersed.

We would like to thank the local police for their even-handedness in taking every precaution to avoid confrontations.

The spirit of the French resistance is very much alive. Bloc Identitaire and the people of France have made that very clear.

But the next time you visit France look out for Quick restaurants, and should you choose to venture inside, make sure to ask whether they serve any pork products. If that’s not a question you think is worth asking, then all that’s left to consider is whether you’d like [french] fries with that submission to Islam…