Last year, a splinter movement arose to protest the Ministry of Education.
The victims' families say that both Mr. Murphy and Mr. Daly were members of the now-disbanded Real I.R.A., one of a number of republican splinter groups to emerge in protest of the signing of the 1998 Good Friday peace accord and the agreement by the I.R.A. to decommission its weaponry.
The protest calls have caused the splinter group to have a rift not only with mosque supporters, but with other "Tea-Party" followers who denounce both the protests as well as the Council of American Islamic Relations CAIRR).
One such example occurred on Tuesday afternoon, when members of the Westboro Baptist Church, a fundamentalist splinter group from Kansas, entered a designated protest zone near the convention center.
Ms. Spero was active in the Art Workers Coalition, and in 1969 she joined the splinter group Women Artists in Revolution (WAR), which organized protests against sexist and racist policies in New York City museums.
His comments continued what appears to be a two-pronged effort to defuse street protests with concessions, while simultaneously attacking the protesters' already splintered leadership with accusations of foreign backing.
The protesters were members of the Westboro Baptist Church, a fundamentalist splinter group in Topeka, Kan., that travels around the country staging protests that reflect a long list of intolerances and a talent for offending.
Professor Nigel Copsey told The Independent that the electoral decline of the British National Party (BNP) and the splintering of street-based protest organisations such as the English Defence League (EDL) had created a potentially dangerous political vacuum on the far right.
The group believed to be behind the protests, calling itself Ahle Sunnah al Jamah – a splinter group from the banned extremist group al-Muhajiroun – said it was planning more demonstrations.
Last month, a prison officer, David Black, was shot dead in Northern Ireland, and a republican splinter group said it carried out the killing to protest conditions at a jail where guards perform strip searches on detained dissidents.
