UK police arrested 22 members of a radical Islamist group during a protest outside the US Embassy in London today.
20 United Ummah protesters were held on suspicion of being members of the banned group Muslims Against Crusades while another two were detained for obstruction and violent disorder.
Reuters reported:
Police said they had made more than 20 arrests at a demonstration outside the U.S. embassy in London on Friday.
Twenty people had been held on suspicion of being members of a banned group while another two were detained for obstruction and violent disorder.
A Metropolitan Police spokesman declined to confirm a report that the protesters were members of Muslims Against Crusades (MAC), a fringe Islamist group.
MAC, which was banned by Home Secretary Theresa May last month, was best known for a 2010 protest during which it burned poppies on Remembrance Day and chanted “British soldiers, burn in hell.”
It had previously held a demonstration outside the U.S. embassy on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on America.