Churches Challenge Britain First "Christian Patrol"

Last Saturday Britain First held one of its notorious ‘Christian Patrols’ in Luton. In typical paramilitary garb, 20 activists led by Paul Golding and Jayda Fransen marched though the heart of Bury Park, the commercial centre of the town’s Asian community.  ... 

You can read more here: Churches Challenge Britian First ""Christian Patrol". 

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Britain Firsts video of their action had over 25million views on its Facebook version alone. It was taken down by FB on Sunday 31st. It still remains on YouTube. [i do not link to their material as a matter of principle as it involves highly provocative activity.  The story and our action have attracted a lot of attention.

Some of the coverage:

• My short speech in Bury Park. 
•  David Kesterton and Anne Adams talking to woman abused by Britain First 
• my short interview with Inspire FM
• Another video of our activity  - also,embedded below
• Press release from Mosques in Luton  
• There was great piece in Huffington Post about our work.   :Britain First's Bury Park 'Christian Patrol' In Luton Condemned As 'Intimidating' And 'Inflaming Tensions
• Which was followed up by a nationwide condemnation of Britain Firsts action:    Britain First Denounced By Every Major Christian Denomination In The UK 

Added 5th February. Washington Post today posted an article on story.  Muslim group picks a fight in British Muslim neighborhood, and gets one

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Article by Bishop Richardvof Bedford from Luton on Sundat

Re-Launching ReconciliationTalk.com

My blog, badly neglected for some years, finally died last year. I was sick and failed to renew the domain name ReconciliationTalk.com, and around the same time my typepad subscription was not renewed. (Credit card not valid) A crying shame, as its key focus was a journey of peacemaking in Luton during the first few years we were plagued by the English Defence League. Several times recently people have asked me why I'd not written on our work here, and it never dawned on me that I had! Then a number of pieces I'd written began to show up as "on this day" memories on Facebook, and reading them I realised the hours of reflection and a search for understanding they represented.

So when a new friend who'd been reading them offered to help me get up and blogging again I jumped at it. Thanks Sam!  I have started here on Squarespace as reconciliationtalk.squarespace.com, and have now registered it as ReconciliationTalk.org. Additionally I've resurrected the typepad blog as reconciliation.typepad.com/ for now. Its a bit of a mess but I'll be planning to export all the posts and get them here - though its a bit complex as there is no direct typepad export to squarespace. If you are a friend on Facebook most posts are also there as notes.

There's a lot to comment on just now. Not sure I'll have time to write the essays I used to, but will be trying to challenge the hatred out there, and chart a way through the conflict.