{{Far-right groups and antifascists scuffled Saturday during rival demonstrations to mark the killing of British soldier Lee Rigby more than a week ago.}}<\/p>\n
Police kept about 150 British National Party supporters carrying anti-Islam placards apart from a larger group of anti-racist demonstrators outside Parliament in London after the two sides traded insults and occasional blows.<\/p>\n
Police said several people were arrested after the antifascists refused to move to let the other group pass.<\/p>\n
Smaller right-wing protests were held in other British cities, but the turnout fell far short of the show of strength organizers had hoped for.<\/p>\n
Police had earlier rejected a plan by the BNP \u2014 which claims to be anti-extremist but which opponents say is racist and anti-Islam \u2014 to march from the site of the killing in southeast London to a nearby Islamic center.<\/p>\n
Police, politicians and activists have reported a rise in anti-Muslim incidents since Rigby was hacked to death on May 22 by two men espousing militant Islam.<\/p>\n
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