Extramural Activity

“Sorry it was all for nothing – It’s on each and every one of us to save what our forefathers fought and died for.”

According to this Facebook post, the perceived threat being warned against here is “Communistic Islamification”. The “Islamification” is represented by a partial flag of Pakistan (an Islamic republic) being carried by yelling Caucasian figures in long black robes, advancing through a graveyard, in which an elderly man – perhaps King Charles – kneels in front of a headstone bearing a red Christian cross. That the cemetery is a military one is indicated by the medals on the mourner’s chest and the line from Binyon’s ‘For The Fallen’, which provides a referent for the apology and the word “forefathers”.

A feature of recent (anti-immigration) protests is the presence of Christian flags. Here a pair of ‘Jesus is king’ flags fly on either side of the board in opposition to the “Islamic” flags carried by the invaders; the final image below shows a rally from late November, 2025, in Sandy Row, south Belfast, in which a flag reading “Jesus – the way, the truth, the life” flies above a St Patrick’s Saltire and in the midst of a number of Flags Of Zion.

How the “communistic” threat is conveyed is less clear.

Two men were cautioned by the police for displaying offensive material (Sunday Life). The Cloughfern Young Conquerors declined to play at the launch and family fun-day (Sunday Life), but the event went ahead (on May 8th) (youtube).

Doagh Road, Cloughfern, Newtownabbey

Update: the board was paint-bombed; Concerned Parents accused three immigrants in a silver Fiat (Fb) of attacking the “war memorial” but Lasaır Dhearg claimed responsibility (ig).

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