It was heralded as the start of something big: the opening salvo in the formation of a pan-European coalition of anti-Islamic groups that opponents feared might replicate a network of street armies similar to those that undermined European democracies in the 1930s.

Instead, attempts to orchestrate a new European anti-Islamic group by Tommy Robinson, the head of the English Defence League, appeared to falter in the weak Danish sun.

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