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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fox C2" data-source="post: 15043728" data-attributes="member: 370633">By Costas PitasLONDON (Reuters) - Around a thousand far-right  protesters shouting "Muslim killers, off our streets" marched through  central London on Monday against a backdrop of swelling anti-Muslim  feeling following the killing of a British soldier last week.Lee  Rigby, a 25-year-old soldier, was hacked to death in broad daylight in a  south London street by two men who said they killed him in the name of  Islam. The attack has shocked Britain and stirred an anti-Muslim  backlash, including attacks on mosques.In a tense but largely  peaceful demonstration, supporters of the far-right English Defence  League (EDL) rallied in London outside Prime Minister David Cameron's  residence waving placards and shouting anti-Islamic obscenities."Islamic  extremism is probably the number one threat to Britain," said one  protester, Ben Gates. Other demonstrators chanted "Muslim bombers off  our streets".Another protester, Samuel Hames, said, of Rigby: "He  survived his tour of foreign lands and comes home to his family and  what happened to him is disgusting."Nearly 2,000 people marched  at a similar demonstration in the northern city of Newcastle on  Saturday. Two men were arrested overnight for throwing firebombs at an  Islamic cultural centre in Grimsby, in the northeast of England. Similar  attacks were recorded last week.As anti-racist groups warned  there could be more reprisals, Cameron came under intense pressure on  Monday for going on holiday, with pictures of him relaxing in Ibiza  prompting newspapers to question his leadership at a time of unease."Is Ibiza chillaxed (relaxed) enough for you, Prime Minister?" asked the right-wing Daily Mail newspaper.Faith  Matters, a charity working to defuse religious tensions, said it had  registered a spike in reports of Islamophobic attacks in calls to its  hotline, describing incidents as "very focused, very aggressive  attacks".Two war memorials in London were vandalised with red  graffiti overnight, including the word 'Islam' spray-painted onto one  monument.Suspects Michael Adebolajo, 28, and Michael Adebowale,  22, allegedly ran over Rigby with a car near his army barracks and  butchered him with knives. Police shot the two, and they remain under  armed guard in separate London hospitals.In a dramatic video clip  shot by an onlooker and shown on British television, one of the two  men, his hands bloodied, says he killed the soldier in retaliation for  the deaths of Muslims killed by British troops in faraway lands.Police have arrested 10 people in connection with the murder. Three people have been released on bail.The  attack prompted an emotional outpouring of sympathy in Britain, with  well-wishers laying hundreds of flowers in the street where Rigby was  killed. But some were openly angry."We've had enough of our soldiers being abused... We'd had enough of the plots and the violence," EDL wrote on its website.In  an attempt to counter the right-wing rally, anti-fascist group Unite  Against Racism held its own demonstration nearby but was heavily  outnumbered by EDL protesters.A handful of far-right  demonstrators threw bottles and coins at the anti-fascist rally. Police  vans and officers blocked the two groups from approaching each other."They  are a minority and a very scary growing minority," an anti-EDL  protester who gave her name as Clara said. "I feel ashamed to be a  Londoner today. This is disgusting."              (Editing by Maria Golovnina and Michael Roddy)<a href="http://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/-/latest/17350446/protests-over-murdered-british-soldier-pressure-on-cameron/" target="_blank">http://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/-/latest/17350446/protests-over-murdered-british-soldier-pressure-on-cameron/</a></blockquote>

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