### [2010-10-10](/feed/2010/10/10/index.md)

##### Far-right
# Details emerge of contacts between the far-right English Defence League and extremist U.S. groups such as the American Tea Party in a "war on Islamification". 




### Sources:

1. [The Observer](http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/oct/10/english-defence-league-tea-party)

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