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Masked Muslim youths take to east London streets to 'defend our community' after police banned UKIP march to 'reclaim' the area

2025-10-26

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A group of masked Muslim youths took to the streets of east London today vowing to be 'ready to defend their community' after police banned a planned UKIP protest to 'reclaim' the area.

Many young men dressed in black, with hoods up and their faces covered, could be seen as Bangladesh and Palestine flags were waved at the demonstration on streets where UKIP had originally intended to march. One protester at the Whitechapel demo took to a microphone promising to 'stand firm' in defending their community from far-right protesters.

'They came specifically targeting Islam,' he said. 'They said, "we are coming on a crusade", they said "we need to take back our streets".

'We stand firm to let them know if you come, we will stand firm and will be ready to defend our elders, to defend our women, to defend our community.

'We have never once said we were going on crusades or going into your areas to cause you problems.

'You are coming into our homes and you want to cause us problems. What is wrong with us standing up?

'Today is a day we unite,' he said to a crowd chanting a series of messages in Arabic.

On Tuesday, the Met had imposed restrictions on the UKIP demonstration, banning supporters from entering the borough of Tower Hamlets in a bid to prevent 'serious disorder' and instead directing them to Marble Arch.

Left-wing counter-protesters were told to continue their protest as planned in Whitechapel and not enter areas of central London where the UKIP march would be taking place instead.

But at the Marble Arch meeting four left-wing protesters, believed to be supporters of campaign group Stand Up To Racism, were arrested by Met Police officers in Hyde Park Corner after defying the police ban in an attempt to confront UKIP protesters.

Elsewhere, outside the London Oratory, a Catholic church in Kensington, 75 UKIP activists gathered at 1pm before their march towards Marble Arch, with many holding Union Jacks, crosses and signs reading 'Islamist invaders not welcome in Britain'.

They were led by UKIP leader Nick Tenconi, carrying a banner which read 'Islamist invaders not welcome in Britain' while others at the protest carried wooden crosses.

They could be heard chanting, 'hail the nation, deportation” and “send them home,' as well as 'who's the King of Britain? Christ is King!'.

Tenconi also rejected allegations of fascism, telling protestors that his grandparents had fled fascist Italy.

Attending the protest was TV personality Narinder Kaur, who was pictured being led away by police officers after she confronted far-right protesters. She took to Twitter (formerly X) after the incident, writing: 'Love how they were more interested in me than little Nick from Ukip.

'They tried to get me arrested but managed to just get the police to protect me.'

UKIP protest attendee Martin Ponting, 45, said the march was about 'sending a clear message'.

'We live in a two-tier country. Why couldn’t we be in east London?,' he said. 'But we’re here instead and we’ve had enough.'

A Met Police officer told the Daily Mail that the turnout for the protest was much smaller than expected. The protest finished with a speech by Tenconi under Marble Arch, where he called for a 'ninth crusade' against Islamism and Communism.

During the speech, a man wearing a keffiyeh, a type of scarf commonly associated with the pro-Palestine movement, entered the area. Police were forced to quickly intervene during the confrontation, as the man was chased across Oxford Street. It is unclear whether the man was a counter-protester or had entered the area unintentionally.

Earlier this week, Met imposed Public Order Act conditions on UKIP demonstrators, preventing them from holding the protest anywhere in the borough of Tower Hamlets on Tuesday. Previously, the force banned the demonstration from its planned site in Whitechapel, an area with a large Muslim population, with officers saying there was 'realistic prospect of serious disorder'.

The march is part of a series of events taking place across the UK which were promoted as a 'mass deportations tour', with organisers calling on attendees to 'reclaim Whitechapel from the Islamists', UKIP's X profile said.

The counter-protest, organised by Stand Up To Racism (SUTR) and other local groups, amassed from 12pm in Whitechapel, east London.

A spokesperson for the force said: 'Four counter protesters who appeared along the route in breach of the conditions in place and refused to leave have been arrested.'

UKIP leader Nick Marcel Tenconi said earlier this week on X: 'We will confront the communists at Hyde Park Corner.

'We will march to Marble Arch and I will give my historic address with the communists and Islamists flaying in the background outraged that we have once and for all finally stood up to them.

'They will be met with Christian courage and it will be glorious. Patriots, this is just the beginning. Saturday the 25th of October (tomorrow). The Crusade begins.

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