Fresh from spreading the inflammatory (and, needless to say, entirely false) rumour that a 7-year-old child had been gang-raped in the toilets of a Luton school, the English Defence League are now propagating the lie that Muslims in Oldham have taken to the streets to celebrate the killing of a British soldier in Woolwich.

Here, from the EDL’s Facebook page, are some of the predictable reactions this story provoked. And here is the equally predictable response of the police to the EDL’s racist rumour-mongering: