Carroll is a previous leader of the English Defense League. He left the EDL with Tommy Robinson in 2013. He has ties to Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer and is part of Stop Islamizaiton of Nations.
American Freedom Defense Initiative
The American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) is an Islamophobic hate group led by Pamela Geller. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) identifies the organization as an anti-Muslim hate group. At one time, SPLC considered Geller “the anti-Muslim movement’s most visible and flamboyant figurehead.”