Friday, the holy day for Muslims.11th Sep 2009, 8th anniversary of bombings in New York on the World Trade Centre.
Also from 21st August till 19th Sep 2009, it's Ramadan, a holy month of fasting for Muslims.
English Defense League (EDL) and Stop Islamisation Of Europe (SIOE) couldn't chose a better day for protesting against new mosque being build in Harrow, North West London. As the protest was announced and everyone was aware, more than a thousand people, mainly Muslims and few some anti-fascist, gathered at the mosque from 1pm.
One brave EDL member was spotted right in the middle of the Muslim's crowd taking photos of them and then sending them to his mates who were sat in the pub down the road. What a tactics!
The EDL protest never happened but few EDL members tried to cause some small meaningless trouble. Within seconds hundreds of Muslims run after them only to be stopped by the police.
EDL was taken to safety, questioned and then led away to back streets where their cars were paked. Few of them were arrested.
One other arrest was made near the mosque and as soon as young Muslims noticed, they made a run for it chasing policemen arresting another guy on the bridge.
The biggest trouble were on the bridge. I overheard one guy shouting: "If there is no BNP let's f*** up the police instead." Bottles, bricks and fireworks were thrown at the police and at the press.
Youths clashed with the police on a couple of other occasions, near the mosque and at a nearby car park, again throwing bottles.
By 8pm most of the people had dispersed and everything was back to normal.
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