Category Archives: Far right racists

‘Killing Muslims, blowing up mosques’ – Nazi’s plan for race war

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Martyn GilleardA Nazi fanatic with a terrorist’s armoury in his flat was preparing to wage a race war to stop Britain becoming a multi-ethnic society, a court heard today. Martyn Gilleard, 31, was a white supremacist who idolised Adolf Hitler and urged sympathisers to “stop talking and act” or the “purity of the white race will be lost forever”.

When police raided his flat they found a terrifying arsenal of weapons, including four nail bombs hidden under his bed, bullets and an assortment of bladed weapons including swords, knives and a machete, Leeds Crown Court heard. They also discovered DIY bomb manuals, a guide to how to make your own sub-machine gun and internet instructions on “how to assassinate people and get away with it by using poison”.

Detectives found a document in his flat which was a “blueprint” for the formation of an extremist group with its own “mobile strike force”. In a notebook they found a speech aimed at racist sympathisers. He wrote: “Be under no illusions, we are at war. It’s a war we are badly losing. I am sick and tired of hearing nationalists talking of killing Muslims, blowing up mosques and fighting back only to see these acts of resistance fail. The time has come to stop the talking and start to act.”

Daily Mail, 16 June 2008

Atheism as a cover for racism

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“I don’t much care if people think I’m thick because I believe in God. But what’s really nasty here – and it’s a part of a growing phenomenon – is the way religion is being used as a subtle code for race.

“Belief in God is alive and well in Africa and in the Middle East and declining in western Europe. Writing about the intelligence of religious believers has, for some, become a roundabout way of commenting on the intelligence of those with darker skins whilst seeking to avoid the charge of racism. Religion is being used with a nod and a wink, cover for some rather dodgy and dangerous politics.

“The BNP, for example, has started using religion as a category of racial designation so as to deflect charges of racism. For instance, they seek to defend something called ‘Christian Britain’. But what they really mean is ‘no Muslims’ – and that really means ‘no Asians’. The fact that these categories are not in any way equivalent does not detract from the message the BNP is sending by using them in the way they do….

“The debate between believers and non-believers – a debate that gets terribly hot on this site sometimes – is not made any more civil by the addition of this unpleasant inflection. Which is why believers and unbelievers (even those who think people like me are idiotic enough to have given their life to the great flying spaghetti monster) ought to unite against this way of thinking about our differences. ”

Giles Fraser at Comment is Free, 12 June 2008

Netherlands: 65% support ban on large mosques

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According to a large survey prepared by TV program Netwerk and newspaper Nederlands Dagbald, 65% of the Dutch ‘agree’ or ‘completely agree’ that there should be a stop to the building of large mosques.

Most Dutch are concerned about the growth of Islam in the Netherlands and its influence on society.  At the same time, a majority are also concerned about the negative manner in which Geert Wilders and his Party for Freedom (PVV) speak about Islam.

59% of the Dutch think that in 40 years Islam would be at least as an important aspect of the Netherlands as Christianity is today.  57% say the increase in the number of Muslims threatens Dutch culture, and 53% say it threats freedom of religion.

The concern about Islam crosses political boundaries.  56% of Labor Party voters, 65% of Socialist Party voters, 67% of Christian Union voters and 87% of Political Reformed Party (SGP) voters, support stopping the building of large mosques.

Islam in Europe, 5 June 2008

BNP says call to prayer at Stoke mosque will ‘provoke neighbours’

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BNP Islam Out of BritainA new mosque will be built on a former pottery works, despite warnings that the call to prayer may offend non-Muslim neighbours.

The new place of worship will replace the nearby Ghelani Noor Mosque and be built on the old Denton Works, in Chaplin Road, Normacot. The plan was approved by Stoke-on-Trent City Council’s development control committee yesterday by eight votes to two, with two abstentions.

But the mosque committee’s intention to ring out a call to prayer every Friday and during holy festivals was challenged by BNP councillor Phillip Sandland, who warned it could lead to flash points with non-Muslim neighbours.

As part of the planning conditions each call to prayer – or Adhan – must last no longer than two minutes and only be amplified between 7.30am and 8pm.

Mr Sandland told the committee: “I’m happy to see a house of God built, whether it’s Christian, Muslim or whatever. But there are people who will take exception to this call to prayer and for the time being it should not be allowed.”

Committee chairman, Councillor Mike Barnes, asked him: “Do we take the same account of bells when the Lord Mayor is appointed?” But Mr Sandland hit back: “It’s different as well you know – don’t provoke your neighbours, as this thing does.”

Sentinel, 5 June 2008

Bardot fined over racial hatred

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Brigitte BardotA French court has fined former film star Brigitte Bardot 15,000 euros (£12,000) for inciting racial hatred. She was prosecuted over a letter published on her website that complained Muslims were “destroying our country by imposing their ways”. It is the fifth time Ms Bardot been convicted over her controversial remarks about Islam and its followers. This is her heaviest fine so far.

BBC News, 3 June 2008

Islamophobia forces Danish Muslims to consider emigration

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Pia Kjærsgaard DFPia Kjaersgaard’s Danish People’s Party has a genius for attracting attention. Over the past month its campaign to ban public employees from wearing Islamic headscarves has dominated the headlines and also triggered squabbles within most of the country’s other political parties.

The campaign began with a poster of a burka-clad woman wielding a judge’s gavel. The implicit message was that Danes risk having their courts invaded by Muslim hordes and sharia law. Birthe Ronn Hornbech, the immigration minister, denounced theDPP as “fanatically anti-Muslim” and said the judiciary was capable of policing its own impartiality and dress code. Stig Glent-Madsen, a high-court judge, confirmed that the judiciary had always managed this itself.

Yet the government, which relies on the DPP‘s support to stay in power, has decided that a new law is needed to ban the wearing of all religious symbols by judges – from Christian crosses to Jewish skullcaps and even Sikh turbans. The hapless Ms Ronn Hornbech will have to frame the law. And the DPP is now calling for even broader bans. Muslim headscarves, says Ms Kjaersgaard, are a “symbol of political Islam and the discrimination against women”. She wants them “out of schools, off the streets and outside the doors of parliament”.

Many Danes share Ms Kjaersgaard’s sentiments. A poll by Megafon for TV2 found 48% in favour of a ban on public employees wearing “religious garb”, and only 39% against.

One response has come from Danish-born Muslims. A poll by Politiken, a daily, of 315 young Muslim students, found that two-thirds of them were considering emigrating after graduation. Most gave as their reason “the tone of the Danish debate about Muslims”.

Economist, 29 May 2008

Bishop of Rochester ‘doing the BNP’s work’

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nss2The Bishop of Rochester, the Rt Rev Michael Nazir-Ali, this week claimed the influence of Christianity had been practically wiped out in recent decades, destroying Britishness and leading to the breakdown in family life and an increase in drunkenness and violence.

The bishop, a leading conservative who believes the Church of England should be doing more to convert Muslims, then warned that radical Islam is starting to fill the “moral vacuum” left by the decline in Christianity, which could lead to different values taking hold.

But his words have been condemned by some groups who have accused him of spreading fear and intolerance, and of putting across a similar message to the far-right British National Party.

Terry Sanderson, president of the National Secular Society, said: “Dr Nazir-Ali’s remarks are ill-advised, dangerous and manipulative. He is playing a very dangerous game with these repeated scaremongering tactics against Muslims, and risks doing the BNP’s work for them. He risks creating even more hostility towards the Muslim community in this country – and community relations are already very fragile in some places.”

The NSS, which campaigns against what it calls the privileged position of religious groups in society, called on the Archbishop of Canterbury to discipline the bishop for his remarks and prevent him from making “further inflammatory statements”.

Daily Telegraph, 30 May 2008

We couldn’t agree more. However, we can’t avoid noting some double standards here. If the National Secular Society is genuinely concerned about irresponsible attacks on Islam giving assistance to the fascists they could start by dissociating themselves from NSS member Pat Condell, whose Islamophobic rants on YouTube have been applauded by Terry Sanderson. It would appear that the incitement of hostility towards the Muslim community is OK with Sanderson when it’s done by fellow secularists.

See also Inayat Bunglawala at Comment is Free and the excellent leader in today’s Guardian.

For the BNP’s endorsement of Nazir-Ali, see here.

Fears of ‘the Islamic problem’ brought BNP success at polls

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The principal strategy of Nick Griffin, its Cambridge-educated leader, has been to escape the jackbooted, knuckle-dragging image of street-fighting neo-Nazis and to become a popular anti-immigration party. The East End of London has become a stronghold, with the BNP installed as the official opposition on Barking & Dagenham council under the leadership of the artist Richard Barnbrook. Mr Barnbrook made a breakthrough by winning the BNP’s first seat in the London Assembly. The party’s electoral success came after it began concentrating its attacks on Muslims.

Times, 29 May 2008

See also “BNP seeks to make a martyr of activist killed by Muslim elder“. And yes, that’s a reference to Keith Brown, “an unemployed father of seven with a long criminal record” who was responsible for “a frightening campaign of intimidation, violence and racial abuse” against his Muslim neighbours – precisely the sort of racist thug who would make an appropriate “martyr” for the BNP.

Fascists expose ‘Islam’s 1,300 year war on Western Civilisation’

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jihad-book-final-cover-front.p65“Excalibur Books is proud to announce the launch of ‘Jihad: Islam’s 1,300 Year War on Western Civilisation’ by Arthur Kemp. This book, the first of its kind, maps out how, for centuries, violent Muslims have been trying to capture Europe for Islam.

“Sweeping out from its origin in Saudi Arabia, Islam has expanded through violent conquest into North Africa, the Middle and Near East – and very nearly into Europe itself, attacking through Spain, Italy, and the Balkans. Each time, the Islamic hordes were turned back by a united European military effort.

“Today, the Islamic invasion is not being carried out with sieges, scimitars, or cannon, but rather by immigration, birth rates, and demographics. Given current trends, Europe is set to be overrun before the end of this century.

“This book puts the current crisis into historical perspective, showing that instead of being a ‘religion of peace’, violent Islam has, in fact, been waging war on all its self-appointed opponents since its inception.

“Finally, this book dares to say what must be done if Europe is to avoid succumbing to the new invasion. The choice is hard, but is one which will determine whether Western Civilisation lives or dies.”

BNP news article, 27 May 2008

A fitting follow-up to Kemp’s earlier book March of the Titans: A History of the White Race.

For more on Arthur Kemp see here.