Now to come to the EDL.
They are no more the voice of public opinion in the UK than you or I am. Their key membership is made up of a combination of a group of racist football hooligans who have grouped together under the name of
Casuals United. They are led by a bloke who goes under the pseudonym of Tommy Robinson, but is, in fact, Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, a former member of a neo-nazi racist party called the BNP (and, frankly,
a bit of a knob-end).
The law no longer allows people to be openly racist in the UK, but it still allows them to make inflammatory - and defamatory - statements about people according to their religion, so it is an ideal way of stirring up racial hatred, which is what these numpties do.