Last night's incident was the second of the day involving young Islamic radicals out to disrupt the general election campaign. Earlier, a mob of protesters believed to be followers of the radical cleric Omar Bakri Mohammed stormed into the Regent's Park mosque in central London and disrupted a press conference by the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB)...
Mr McKay said that he believed the same group, the now disbanded El Muhajiroun, was responsible for both incidents.
"We believe it was the same group, the same people that actually carried it out," he said. "It was clearly a concerted plan to cause as much disruption and get as much publicity as possible.... It was the language of El Muhajiroun, the language of bigotry..."
Mr Bakri Mohammed, a Syrian-born hardliner, has been touring the country promoting the message that voting is un-Islamic and sinful, attracting hundreds of Muslim youths still angry at the invasion of Iraq and anti-terror laws which are perceived as anti-Muslim.
BTW, the shoe bomber Richard Reid was seen at several el-Muhajiroun meetings in Ilford in the months before his failed attempt to bomb American Airlines Flight 63. This group also organised rallies across Britain in September 2003 to celebrate those it called "The Magnificent 19", (the 9/11 hijackers).
Interesting.