Richard Dunbar, Youth and Community Work student at Bradford and an IDYW supporter sends the following passionate message of concern.

Hello everyone

As you maybe aware the English Defence League are planning to spread their racist messages as they plan to march in Bradford City Centre on Saturday 28th August. Put simply any sane person would know that this is wrong and would threaten any progress Bradford has made in terms of cohesion work since the Bradford riots of a decade ago. If the Home Secretary allows this march to go ahead the consequences would be disastrous and it is quite scary to think what could happen as I am sure you would agree.

Please can you sign the petition and leave any comments you may have at http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/march/

This is a new campaign launched  by the Bradford Telegraph and Argus.

Martin Luther King said ‘Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere’ and it is for this reason why we all should do our bit to stop this march of hate.

Please take just a few minutes to add your name to the petition and leave any comments you may have. It would be really good if you could then forward this email onto as many of your contacts as possible.

Thanks for your time

Richard Dunbar

In fact not everyone would agree with Richard’s argument. Calling on the State to ban certain groups or activities has always been a sore subject for debate. Thus we find two contrasting arguments in the Guardian’s COMMENT columns.

Whilst Marsha Singh insists:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/aug/20/english-defence-league-ban