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Methodists back Muslims over mosque

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Mount Zion chapel (2)After years of searching for a place to worship, Muslims in the northern English town of Clitheroe have won planning permission to transform a former Methodist chapel into a mosque.

Local Methodists and other faith groups have been among the mosque’s supporters, standing alongside their Muslim neighbors as they faced vocal opposition and even racial abuse from those who campaigned against the proposed mosque.

“This is a basic issue of human rights,” said the Rev. Christopher Cheeseman, superintendent minister of the Clitheroe Methodist Circuit. “These are people of faith who wish to find a place to worship.”

Cheeseman and fellow Methodists, along with other local Christians, Jews and Buddhists, have made it their business to counter the efforts of the far-right British National Party in Clitheroe. Many feel the party has exploited divisions in this community over the new mosque, deliberately fanning the flames of racial hatred for their own political gain.

During local elections in 2003, British National Party campaign fliers depicted the town dominated by a domed mosque with minarets, even though the new mosque and community center plans contain no alterations to the exterior of the church building.

The Rev. Dale Barton, interfaith officer for the Lancashire Churches Together organization, said the basic right to religious freedom is at stake in Clitheroe. He recalled attending an independent inquiry about the mosque application where openly racist insults were directed against local Muslims. Deeply disturbed by what he saw and heard, Barton said it was “the most racist meeting I’ve been to in my entire life.”

A spokesperson for the local council told United Methodist News Service the council had received a number of letters opposed to the mosque proposal that were so racist and offensive they couldn’t be made public.

United Methodist Church news report, 1 May 2007

Mark D. Tooley is not happy: “the Christian clerics who promoted the mosque sometimes seemed blissfully unaware of the demographic trends that prophesy their own potential demise in Britain and in an increasingly Islamicized Europe. Amid their quickness in painting mosque opponents as semi-fascist, they showed little sadness over a once vibrant Christian church becoming a place of worship for Allah….. do Christian leaders who celebrate the removal of the cross from a church in favor of the Islamic crescent really honor their own faith? Or have they succombed to a new religion in which politically correct multiculturalism has displaced the Deity?”

Front Page Magazine, 3 May 2007

Row erupts over BNP mosque letter

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BNP Islam Out of BritainA row has broken out in Lincoln over a letter sent by a British National Party representative to the council leader criticising a new mosque in the city. Richard Foster, the BNP’s regional representative in Lincoln, wrote claiming the mosque, on the site of a former church, could “teach terrorism”.

Council leader Ric Metcalfe said the letter was being shown to the police to determine whether it broke race laws. “I think it is absolutely outrageous and exposes the BNP for the party it’s always been known to be and a party holding overtly racist views,” said Mr Metcalfe, who is Labour leader on the council.

But Mr Foster defended his words, saying his opinions were nothing new.

“The building would become an Islamic centre, rather than just a mosque and this can mean that the Islamic form of ‘getting your own way’ – terrorism – could be taught there. I don’t know if you’re aware of the programme ‘The Undercover Mosque‘ but anything I have put in this letter, in that documentary far, far, far worse things have been said about the [Muslim] community.

“I don’t need anybody to tell me that the only thing to happen in these places is worshipping their god because we all know that isn’t the case. Not all Muslims are terrorists but most terrorists are Muslims,” he said.

BBC News, 2 May 2007

Video here.

Meanwhile, the BNP are congratulating themselves on the soft ride they’ve been given by the media. Thankfully, not all the media.

How to stop ‘the Islamification of Great Britain’ – a fascist explains

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bnp-islam-poster“… we know that the Islamification of Europe was planned back as early as the 1950’s by people who wished to create a Eurabia, prior to the creation of a one world government. Their plans are now well advanced…. In Our Country, The Cult of the Dead Paedophile have created, whilst the British People slept an Islamic Government with its own Parliament and Judiciary and is now starting to act as a nation within a nation….

“They have their own communication channels and carefully select their areas for colonisation. Once firmly embedded they then seek to change their environment to suit them. The original inhabitants are then ‘encouraged’ to move. They can then control the political process in that area with their block votes and their casual attitude towards electoral fraud…. But no one can say that we were not warned. What parts of ‘Islam will rule the World‘ or them saying ‘This is our country now‘ and ‘The flag of Islam will fly over England‘ do we not understand? …

“Our only chance is for a British National Party government. These Assembly and local elections are our launchpad. We must succeed. I leave you to imagine the alternative.”

Home of the Green Arrow, 1 May 2007

‘When will the British stop appeasing terror?’ demands Mad Mel

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Londonistan“Islamist extremism in Britain must be stopped and British values reasserted and stoutly upheld. To defeat such extremism, we have to make it abundantly clear that we will not give an inch to those who want to destroy our values. But we appear instead to be doing nothing to stop the spread of radical Islamism. Indeed, in a myriad different ways we are giving out the lethal message that we have neither the will nor the courage to defend our way of life….

“Despite the Prime Minister’s promise to outlaw the radical group Hizb ut Tahrir (which believes that Britain should be an Islamic state), the Government refuses to do so….

“Above all else, we should absolutely refuse to countenance the spread of Sharia law, which is not only inimical to our own deepest principles but aims to supplant our own laws. Yet we are turning a blind eye to the steady Sharia-isation of our country. We have ignored the development of informal parallel Sharia jurisdictions, enforced by Sharia courts, in areas heavily populated by Muslims….

“Now Gordon Brown has said Britain should become the centre of global Islamic banking. But this is heavily backed by Saudi Arabia which will use it to further its objective of Islamising the West and may even provide a cover for the financing of further terror.

“This craven appeasement of extremism gives Islamists the unmistakable message that Britain is theirs for the taking….. all of us are put in infinitely greater danger not just from terrorism, but from a culture that still seems to be sleepwalking to oblivion.”

Melanie Phillips in the Daily Mail, 1 May 2007

You can see why BNP supporters say Phillips is one of their favourite newspaper columnists, can’t you?

‘Now Muslims Get Their Own Laws’

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Now Muslims Get Their Own Laws“Muslim radicals have established their own draconian court systems in Britain. Controversial Sharia courts have been set up in major towns and cities to impose Islamic law and enable Muslims to shun the legitimate British legal system. Last night religious leaders and politicians expressed outrage that Sharia law is gaining an increasing foothold in our society.

“The Daily Express can reveal that one of the controversial courts has been set up in the home town of the 7/7 London bombings ringleader. Mohammed Sidique Khan was responsible for the Edgware Road Circle Line explosion which killed six people and injured 120. Our investigation has found that the Sharia court system has been set up in the heart of Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, and that it is the model for others across the country which are operating outside the British legal process….

“Philip Davies, the Tory MP for Shipley, said: ‘I am absolutely appalled and find the prospect of such courts totally terrifying. Places like this should be closed down…. It simply can’t be tolerated’.”

Daily Express, 30 April 2007

Of course, the Jewish community has been operating its own Beth Din courts for years. But you can imagine the outcry that would rightly follow if the Express ran a front-page story headlined “Now Jews Get Their Own Laws in Britain”.

In the same issue of the Express Leo McKinstry whips up further Islamophobic hysteria in a comment piece that begins: “The wail of the mosque is signalling the end of traditional British justice.” Using language that could easily have been taken from a BNP election leaflet, McKinstry continues: “In a political climate of craven appeasement towards Muslim extremism, the Islamification of our country is steadily accelerating.” He observes: “Muslims continually bleat about so-called ‘Islamophobia’ but the isolation they experience from mainstream society is of their own making. British society has bent over backwards to accommodate Islam.” Indeed, “unlike in France, the hijab headscarf is allowed in schools” – a situation that McKinstry would evidently rectify if he could.

(Note, by the way, that McKinstry pays tribute to the role played by Homa Arjomand of the Worker-Communist Party of Iran in blocking the introduction of faith-based arbitration for Muslims in Ontario.)

Predictably, the fascists are full of enthusiasm for the Express report, which of course plays straight into their hands:

“The story should be a wake-up call for all British voters. It is now or never to turn back the tide of Islamic colonisation. Successive Labour and Conservative governments have betrayed the British electorate by opening the doors to waves of bogus asylum seekers, predominantly from Islamic countries in Africa and the Middle East but under Blair’s regime, Labour have not only held the door wide open, they have allowed Muslim immigrants to rearrange the furniture and displace the original occupants.

“Voters can punish the Labour traitors on Thursday by voting for the only party which will use its influence on local councils to stop any planning applications to convert houses, former pubs and other buildings into Islamic community centres, mosques or Sharia courts. A nationwide swing to the BNP will send a loud signal of protest to the establishment that we will not tolerate the creeping Islamification of our country.”

BNP news article, 30 April 2007

For a letter of complaint to the Express from Inayat Bunglawala of the Muslim Council of Britain, see MCB news article, 30 April 2007

Fighting fascism

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Fighting fascism

By Ken Livingstone

Morning Star, 28 April 2007

THE local elections next month provide an opportunity to reject the racist politics of the fascist British National Party.

The BNP is a fascist organisation.

At the general election, the fascists stood convicted criminals as candidates in some seats, only removing them when they were exposed as such.

The BNP is racist. The BNP stands for an all-white Britain, which could only be achieved by using violence.

David Copeland, who carried out the London nail bombings in Brixton, Brick Lane and Soho, said: “My aim was political. It was to cause a racial war … then all the white people would go and vote BNP.”

Six million Jewish people were murdered in the nazi Holocaust, but BNP leader Nick Griffin was convicted for inciting racial hatred after a magazine that he published denied the reality of the Holocaust.

The BNP has scored more electoral success than any other British fascist party in history and it is essential that the anti-fascist vote is mobilised.

The BNP wishes to present itself as a respectable party but, in fact, this is just a lie – it is engaged in a deception of the public and the media.

Writing in 1999, Griffin revealed his strategy for the BNP, which was to cloak the party in respectability in order to take the fascists closer to their ultimate objectives.

“Politics is the art of the possible, so we must judge every policy by one simple criterion – is it realistically possible that a decisive proportion of the British people will support it?

“If not, then to scale down our short-term ambitions to a point at which the answer becomes ‘yes’ is not a sellout, but the only possible step closer to our eventual goal.”

Griffin sees short-term fake respectability as a tactic towards ultimate goals that have not changed.

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Race hatred behind No.10’s mosque petition

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English_RoseLester Holloway exposes the race hatred of far-right blogger Jill Barham, the woman behind the “mega mosque” petition.

Blink is urging its readers to email Downing Street to urge that this petition is amended to remove the reference to “terrible violence and suffering” and that the words “KILL ALL NIGGERS” are removed from the signature list.

Blink news article, 26 April 2007

Update:  The “English Rose” blog is now back online under the rather more straightforward title of “White Information Link“.

Fascists wake up to threat of Islamic finance

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“Another day and yet another concession to Islamic forces in Britain from the Labour regime. In a desperate bid to woe [sic] Muslim voters the Treasury want all types of government-sponsored savings products to be accessible to those who adhere to Islamic Sharia law…. Mr Balls is expected to announce the moves today at a conference hosted by the Financial Services Authority.”

BNP news article, 26 April 2007

Er … except that Ed Balls announced his proposal (for a new Sharia-compliant government bond) three days ago, on 23 April. I ask you, how can we expect to resist the Islamification of our glorious island nation if the defenders of our cultural heritage are so slow on the uptake?

BNP mosque leaflet dismissed as ‘rubbish’

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A plea for racial tolerance has been made after a British National Party leaflet claimed people in a West town had been denied the chance to comment before a “mosque” was given planning approval.

Plans for an Islamic centre above and behind a kebab shop in Yeovil was given planning permission in 2003 after an application was made for a change of use from office to religious meeting rooms.

The BNP leaflet claimed the public should have been told the use was specifically for an Islamic centre or mosque, and that failure to do so showed a “culture of institutionalised silence and deceit” by officials and councillors. The leaflet, promoted by Robert Baehr, a BNP candidate in South Somerset district council elections, has already been delivered to hundreds of homes in Yeovil.

Candidates from other parties yesterday dismissed the BNP’s claim as “rubbish”. John Grana, one of 12 candidates standing under the banner of the Central Committee, Local Residents Working Together, said:

“This sort of leaflet is laughable and divisive. We stand for religious tolerance and freedom of thought. Yeovil welcomes people from everywhere. If I trace my own ancestry, I find Italian, Irish, Scottish and English blood. There is a richness in the mix we have.”

Simon Gale, the council’s head of development and building control, said: “In planning terms there is no requirement to state the distinctive religious use.”

Western Daily Press, 25 April 2007