Bradford West MP George Galloway
BRADFORD West MP George Galloway (pictured) was among the speakers at a counter-demonstration to Britain’s first anti-Islam Pegida rally which took place in Newcastle on Saturday.
Five people were arrested during a major police operation to keep demonstrators on each side apart.
Pegida’s German acronym means ‘Patriotic Europeans against the Islamisation of the West’.
Northumbria Police said 375 people were on the Pegida rally, while 2,000 joined the opposing Newcastle Unites protest.
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