Who would you rather have in power, the EDL or MDL.

Just because you agree more with one doesn't mean the other is completely untrue. If they printed outright lies every week they would have been sued and closed down by now - printing controversial right-wing opinions doesn't make them lies. Newspapers often get things wrong, let's not forget the over exaggeration of the Guardian's, albeit heroic, investigation into phone hacking where they had to apologise and detract statements about the NOTW and Milly Dowler, much like the DM has made mistakes in the past. Every newspaper has its downfalls, the DMs is simply that it is right wing. It is no more or less propaganda material than the Guardian, just for a different side.

I don't understand how you can't see how your puppy love for the Guardian and intense hatred for the DM doesn't make your opinion biased and untrustworthy.

Puppy love? I don't generally read any newspapers, actually. But if I have to, I'd pick The Guardian over the rest. However, there are better places to find more accurate and unbiased news...

The Daily Mail hasn't been closed down because it's seen as such a joke by most intelligent people... it'd be like banning The Beano for printing fiction.

As above,

If you don't know, the MDL are the Muslim Defense League and are basically the people that the EDL always end up fighting against and are essentially a front for Shari'ah type groups. The same way the UAF are a front for the SWP.

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nah, im Muslim, no Muslims going to force you to do anything, we believe in respecting other peoples religions, but at the same time, showing them our point of view, we believe in equality and fairness, the media and edl fixate on this thing called "shariah law" << which is the law the county technically is in, such as, stealing is wrong, rape is wrong, and so on. it has nothing to do with forcing religions , and tbh wiv ya, im Muslim an id vote neither conservative all the way for me

The mdl doesn't exist, im muslim, and to see the poll results is disheartening, i mean why all the hatred, is there any need, edl want what?, we haven't done anything wrong?, i haven't done anything wrong?, i mean there were so many black people in the riots (not being racist), i don't turn around to any old black person and say "why are you all like this", because its stupid!, so many black people helped clean the streets after the riots. so just think about what you say.

nah, im Muslim, no Muslims going to force you to do anything, we believe in respecting other peoples religions, but at the same time, showing them our point of view, we believe in equality and fairness, the media and edl fixate on this thing called "shariah law" << which is the law the county technically is in, such as, stealing is wrong, rape is wrong, and so on. it has nothing to do with forcing religions , and tbh wiv ya, im Muslim an id vote neither conservative all the way for me

The Daily Mail outright lies in print, The Guardian doesn't. The Daily Mail encourages hatred, The Guardian doesn't. The Daily Mail is written by propaganda mercenaries; The Guardian is written by (generally) intelligent people. I don't even know how you can compare the two.

If i had to choose then it would be EDL purely because i cba with the shariah law nonsense here

Wonder how many people are taking into account what the EDL actually say, or are they just stereotyping the racist football hooligan?

Watched the interview of their leader with Paxman their main message was that they are against extremist Islam, which i am sure most people here are actually against.

But most people here will unfortunately take into account class and appearance and have skewed perspectives as usual.

Why on earth do we need a protest group against Islamic extremism? That's just about as moronic as an anti-murder protest group staging rallies and marches... Virtually everyone is already against "Islamic extremism", and the type of people who aren't against it are hardly going to be swayed by a protest...

They aren't against "extremist Islam" they are against Islam full stop. A view I can partially sympathise with as I think organised religion is the last major blight on this planet (though instead of attacking them as they do, I pity them for wasting their life), but if you think they are only against the "militant" elements of it then you need to get your head examined!

Though this is a moronic thread to start with anyway. As pretty much everyone has said, I despise both groups (well, I've never heard of the "MDL" but I can guess what they're about!) but as a straight, white British citizen - i.e. one of the majority - I'm clearly going to side with the group who won't radically change my way of life if I bizarrely had to chose between the two.