Perhaps Cameron's speech was a subtle ploy to undermine the EDL and draw their membership away. For all that they are always portrayed as an extremist group, and no doubt have members who have extremist views, the EDL's stated position doesn't seem to be different in substance from what Cameron was saying yesterday, except perhaps that their target is more explicit and more specific: as they put it, 'Militant Islam'.
Perhaps Cameron's speech was a subtle ploy to undermine the EDL and draw their membership away. For all that they are always portrayed as an extremist group, and no doubt have members who have extremist views, the EDL's stated position doesn't seem to be different in substance from what Cameron was saying yesterday, except perhaps that their target is more explicit and more specific: as they put it, 'Militant Islam'.