English Defence League scrap Walsall protest, plan new Birmingham march

The English Defence League has dropped its plans to demonstrate against a mosque in a Midland town The Birmingham Mail reports.

The controversial group had arranged to march through Walsall on June 19 to oppose proposals to convert a disused warehouse into an Islamic place of worship.

The scheme, put forward by the town’s Ahmadiyya Muslim Association, has been rejected.

The group is currently appealing against the decision.


And EDL spokesman Steve Simmons said their action had been “postponed” for “research to be carried out into the area’s Muslim population”. But he warned that a planned protest in July against mosque plans in Dudley was still going ahead. And he added that the group was also looking at returning to Birmingham with a protest in Alum Rock “sometime in the summer”. Read more






Left: Wright Road, Alum Rock 1980.











Below: Alum Rock 2005