English Protesters stage massive anti-Islam demonstration in London

Of course it was only a matter of time before the ticking time bomb of English tolerances when off, with chanting " we will never surrender to Islam" and waving English flags and signs reading "No more mosques" and "Islam is the devil a few protesters mistakenly waving the British union flag which is not the English flag?" as thousands of protesters demonstrated just north of London enough is enough.

The protest in Luton was organized by the English Defence League (EDL), an English organization that pushes out the anti-Islamic message. It was formed in the summer of 2009 after a group of radical Muslims protested during a homecoming parade for English and British troops.

The crowd at the Luton protest numbered into the thousands, and the protesters included members from the Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch and Scottish defence leagues. They marched to St. George's Square in central Luton, where speeches were given and protesters chanted.

Luton has had a renewed focus in England after it emerged that Taimour Abdulwahab, an Iraqi-born terrorist who blew himself up on a Stockholm street in December, had lived there over the past few years and studied at a local university.

A U.S. pastor, Terry Jones, who had organized a "Burn the Qur’an" event last September 11, had been invited to speak at the rally, but Jones' visit was cancelled after British authorities said they might not let him in the country. Jones, of Gainesville, Florida, did not carry out his plans to hold the Qur’an burning amid increasing pressure from U.S. and international leaders.

Police deployed some 1,800 officers, along with dogs and horses, for security. Once the protesters had reached the square, they were held there behind mobile metal doors.

The protests came on the same day that British Prime Minister David Cameron spoke on Islamist extremism and the threat it poses to security at the global Munich Security Conference in Germany. Islamist extremism differs from Islam, Cameron said, and "the ideology of extremism is the problem. Islam, emphatically, is not."

Cameron said those who advocate the West shutting itself off from the Muslim world should look to recent events in Tunisia and Egypt as an example of how Western values and Islam can be compatible.

He said in his speech that British-Britain (England) has been far too tolerant of extremism, however.

"When a white person holds objectionable views racism, for example we rightly condemn them," Cameron said. "But when equally unacceptable views or practices have come from someone who isn't white, we've been too cautious, frankly even fearful, to stand up to them, This hands-off tolerance has only served to reinforce the sense that not enough is shared.

"All this leaves some young Muslims feeling rootless," he said. "And the search for something to belong to and believe in can lead them to this extremist ideology."

He said that instead of ignoring extremist ideology, "we as governments and societies have got to confront it, in all its forms. And second, instead of encouraging people to live apart, we need a clear sense of shared national identity, open to everyone."