Delivering a speech at a conference on far-right extremism, security minister James Brokenshire said that the rise of movements such as the EDL was a “worrying phenomenon”, Bolton News reported.
He warned that the EDL and others have the potential to “stoke radicalisation” and could ultimately cross the line into an area that concerns counter-terrorism strategy.
The minister also revealed that more than 2,000 websites had been shut down since 2010 for breaching UK terror laws by the Counter-terrorism Internet Referral Unit.
Mr Brokenshire hit out at groups such as the EDL for “inflaming tensions and spreading hate-filled prejudice within communities.”
His speech came as a King’s College London report claimed the EDL was exploiting concerns surrounding grooming gangs to fuel its anti-Islam agenda, focussing less on those who aren’t necessarily ‘Muslim’ or ‘Asian’ (examples here).
The far-right group is using recent cases, such as the nine Asian men jailed last year for grooming girls in Rochdale, to build support and is building a far-right network with countries across Europe, according to the university’s International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation.
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