The real danger of the EDL: being blown up by their enemies Academics have no trouble talking about the danger of the white Right: A British university has established a dedicated centre to study the extremist far right, with a particular focus on the increase in violent anti-Islamic sentiment and the possibility of a lone, Anders Behring Breivik style attack. The Centre for Fascist, Anti-Fascist and Post-Fascist Studies at Teesside University will be formally launched later this month... Beginning with two academics, Professor Nigel Copsey and Dr Matthew Feldman, the centre will specialise in both the history of far-right radicalism in this country, and current trends and dangers. The two main UK public fronts for far-right sentiment, the British National party and the street-based, anti-Islam English Defence League, are both in apparent decline... [But Feldman argued] this should not obscure a more gradual shift from race-based far-right activism towards "cultural nationalism," notably against Islam. As it turns out, the real danger of the EDL is of being nearby when they are blown up by some of the very people they worry about: Six Islamist extremists admit planning a bombing attack on a rally organised by the far-right English Defence League. The plot, involving a nail bomb, a partially assembled pipe bomb, shotguns, swords and knives, failed because the rally in Dewsbury ended earlier than planned. These Islamists don't even drive responsibly: The planned attack was only uncovered because a traffic officer stopped Uddin and Khan on the M1 as they travelled back to their home town, Birmingham. He made checks on their Renault Laguna, which came up as being uninsured, and the car was impounded. Any chance of the pompously named Centre for Fascist, Anti-Fascist and Post-Fascist Studies studying the true fascist movement of the 21st century? The one that's going "bang"? Never jump to conclusions when a bomb goes off. After all, one of the FBI's 31 most wanted terrorists is not a Muslim. Damn animal rights extremists. Thanks to reader Electric Zorro.