Tommy is a legend and a hero. Unfortunately the grave mistake of starting out as the EDL, which he later realized was not the solution and left, means he will never get rid of that far-right stigma, or be listened to by the other side. And he may have been careless at times talking about all Muslims, when really he means the ideology of Islam and not Muslims themselves, and gave people who have the knives out the kind of ammo they need to simply repeat the word 'hate' every time he says anything.
The truth is on Tommy's side, but saying that, the response to the problematic aspects of Islam has often bordered on moronic and ridiculous, rather than sensible, fair, genuine and honest. Such as Britain first walking around Muslim areas with crosses and union-jacks and stuff of that ilk. I can see where the left come from when they see most of the rhetoric from people with concerns about what Islam has done to this country and they violence that has been done in its name in just this country alone.
You can't treat all Muslims like **** and ridicule them and expect to get a fair dialogue. However, even the most respectful, sincere approaches don't work either.
The lunatic leftist ideology that has become dominant in society simply will not permit any depiction of Islam other than being a religion of peace. And many Muslims believe their religion is the perfect word of God and shouldn't be allowed to ever be criticised, with many claiming it is a religion of peace also. (Mods, I urge not to remove this post just because I pointed that fact out).
We just have to learn to live with the fact Leftist long-game of the 'long march through the institutions' has been the most success political coup ever and they have succeeded in destroying traditional British cultural values like freedom of expression, rationalism, logic, empiricism, real liberal tolerance and intellectual freedom and replacing it with repressive, neo-marxist, totalitarian ideologies like political correctness and all the rest, and try to deal with the cultural destruction that comes with it.
No one is going to change that situation.