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Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (born 27 November 1982), known by the pseudonym Tommy Robinson and also going by Andrew McMaster and Paul Harris, is the co-founder〔''(The EDL: Britain’s Far Right Social Movement )'', The University of Northampton's Radicalism and New Media Research Group. 22 September 2011. Retrieved 2 February 2012.〕 and former spokesman and leader of the English Defence League (EDL) "street protest" movement, and also founded the European Defence League. For a short time in 2012 Robinson was joint Party Vice Chairman of the British Freedom Party. He led the EDL from 2009 until 8 October 2013, when he was persuaded to leave the organisation and to discuss alternative ways of tackling extremism with the think tank Quilliam. He has continued to indulge in anti-Islam activity.〔Cahal Milmo, ("EDL founder Tommy Robinson addresses Pegida anti-Islam rally in Holland" ), ''The Independent'', 13 October 2015 - Matthew Goodwin, ("The fight against Islamophobia is going backwards" ), ''The Guardian'',19 October 2015〕 ==Background== Robinson was born Stephen Christopher Yaxley in Luton, to an English father and an Irish mother.〔 His mother, who worked at a local bakery,〔 remarried when Stephen was still young to his stepfather, Thomas Lennon, who worked at the local Vauxhall car plant.〔 According to Robinson, after he left school he applied to study aircraft engineering at Luton Airport: "I got an apprenticeship six hundred people applied for, and they took four people on."〔 He qualified in 2003 after five years' study, but then was convicted for drunken assault of an off-duty police officer〔 who, according to ''Searchlight'' magazine, had intervened to stop a domestic incident between Robinson (then called Lennon) and his girlfriend Jenna Vowles.〔Copsey, 2010, pp. 13–14.〕 Robinson served a twelve-month prison sentence,〔 and promptly lost his job at Luton Airport due to security measures imposed since the September 11 attacks.〔 He joined the British National Party in 2004: when questioned about this by the BBC's Andrew Neil in June 2013, Robinson claimed he had left after one year, telling Neil "I didn't know Nick Griffin was in the National Front, I didn't know non-whites couldn't join the organisation. I joined, I saw what it was about, it was not for me."〔 He married in 2011 and is the father of three children.〔(EDL founder Stephen Lennon guilty over football brawl ), ''BBC News''. 25 July 2011. Retrieved 4 January 2012.〕 Robinson owns a sunbed shop in Luton. As leader of the EDL, Robinson regularly wore a bullet-proof vest when appearing in public, telling the BBC he has had his business and his home attacked, and has been personally attacked by "armed Muslims".〔 Despite being accused of anti-Semitism, Robinson has declared his support for the Jewish people and Israel, calling himself a Zionist. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tommy Robinson (activist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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