Charlie Flowers

Charlie Flowers is the leader of the Fighting Cocks, described in a review by the Yorkshire newspaper, the Selby Times as an "Essex gypsy band":
::There's a real anti extremism/terrorism element to the music as well, so handle with care as it's purposefully designed to offend. As the Cock's mastermind Charlie Flowers states "our guitars kill Al Qaeda"! Quite!The Fighting Cocks: Music For Lapdancers, Selby Times, 7 May 2008.
Flowers attended the counter-demonstration against a cancelled protest by Islam4UK in Piccadilly Circus on 31 October 2009. Two separate counter-protests were organised by British Muslims for Secular Democracy and by English nationalists.Sunny Hundal, Pictures from Today's anti-Islamist Demo, 'Pickled Politics, 31 October 2009. Flowers appears in the bottom left of the second photo. 
==The Cheerleaders==
Blogger Tim Ireland has accused Flowers of being part of an online campaign of harassment against him:
::Charlie Flowers (aka 'Ludas Matyi') is the ringleader of a group who call themselves the 'Cheerleaders*'; they turned up at the beginning of the Jenvey saga, and continued to pester myself and others until Dominic Wightman intervened. Now it's in Wightman's interests that I suffer for what he did to me (!) these 'Cheerleaders' have suddenly/mysteriously returned with a vengeance, and have been repeatedly publishing my home address online and broadcasting it to audiences that are hostile to me alongside claims that I am a bully, a stalker, a Nazi, and an ally of religious extremists.Tim Ireland Meet Charlie Flowers (aka Ludas Matyi), Bloggerheads, 30 September 2009.
In December 2009, Shooter Kirpachi published on the Cheerleaders Facebook page a picture of Flowers with English Democrats supporters Darren Marsh and Bill Baker. Flowers appeared to be holding a poster for the One Law For All campaign.Photos from Cheerleadered!, Photo 30 of 56, Facebook, accessed 6 February 2010.
In February 2010 this picture was noted by the TalkIslam blog, which suggested Flowers had links with the English Defence League (EDL).johnpi, Cyber-stalker Charlie Flowers’ English Defense League connection, Talk Islam,1 February 2010.
Shortly afterwards, Kirpachi published a picture of Flowers with Marsh and two members of the EDL, one of whom was the group's youth leader Joel Titus.Photos from Cheerleadered!, Photo 2 of 56, Facebook, accessed 6 February 2010.Richard Bartholomew, English Defence League Faction Meets with Charlie Flowers and “Cheerleader” Friends, 6 February 2010.
==Meeting Alan Lake==
According to blogger Richard Bartholomew, Flowers posted on Facebook in late 2010 about having a two hour meeting with Alan Lake, a counterjihad activist later revealed to be a funder and strategist of the EDL, Abdullah al-Andalusi of the Muslim Debate Initiative and Paul Williams, likely the Family Security Matters contributor.Alan Lake and a Couple of Friends, Bartholomew's Notes on Religion, 16 December 2010
==Affiliations==
*Cheerleaders
==Contact==
*Facebook Charlie Flowers
==External Resources==
*Tim Ireland Meet Charlie Flowers (aka Ludas Matyi), Bloggerheads, 30 September 2009.
*Richard Batholomew, More on the Cheerleaders, Bartholomew's Notes on Religion, 2, October 2009.
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