It started as a gathering to protect a mosque from a rumoured far-Right demonstration.
But a peaceful counter-protest in the Bordesley Green suburb of Birmingham soon turned violent, ending in an attack on a pub and leaving one pubgoer with a “lacerated liver”.
Sean McDonagh, 51, was punched and kicked outside the Clumsy Swan pub after dozens of men, some carrying Palestine flags, broke off from the main group.
Footage on social media shows Mr McDonagh being punched by a man dressed in a black puffer jacket and balaclava in the pub’s front garden.
Mr McDonagh told The Telegraph he was taken to hospital after the attack and rejected a subsequent apology from the Muslim community.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/muslim-counter-protesters-went-defending-182838272.html?
But a peaceful counter-protest in the Bordesley Green suburb of Birmingham soon turned violent, ending in an attack on a pub and leaving one pubgoer with a “lacerated liver”.
Sean McDonagh, 51, was punched and kicked outside the Clumsy Swan pub after dozens of men, some carrying Palestine flags, broke off from the main group.
Footage on social media shows Mr McDonagh being punched by a man dressed in a black puffer jacket and balaclava in the pub’s front garden.
Mr McDonagh told The Telegraph he was taken to hospital after the attack and rejected a subsequent apology from the Muslim community.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/muslim-counter-protesters-went-defending-182838272.html?
