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Sacked Muslim officer wants police protection

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The Muslim firearms officer who was sacked from an elite Scotland Yard unit guarding dignitaries, including Tony Blair, is seeking special police protection after he was forced to move to a secret location amid fears for the safety of his family.

Pc Amjad Farooq, 39, is suing the Metropolitan Police for race and religious discrimination after he was removed from Scotland Yard’s Diplomatic Protection Group (S016) when he was told he had failed a security check because his children went to the same mosque as an imam suspected of having links to terrorism.

Yesterday, friends of Pc Farooq said a house where he had been staying had been visited by an unknown man who made unfounded accusations linking Pc Farooq’s friends to al-Qa’ida. Pc Farooq also feels harassed after an article was published yesterday that he believes links him to the international terrorist group. Friends say that the officer, his wife and five children have been exposed to a possible backlash from far right groups after his legal action against the Met was made public on Tuesday. He denies any links or sympathies with any extremist group.

In a letter to Dr Tim Brain, Chief Constable of Gloucestershire Police, Pc Farooq’s lawyer, Lawrence Davies, has officially requested police protection for his client and his client’s family. The letter makes the police aware of an incident in which an “unnamed person approached the person with whom our client is temporary staying at a secret location and falsely accused that person of having links to the same imam which is entirely untrue”.

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Fascists acquitted again

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bnp-islam-posterBNP leader Nick Griffin and party activist Mark Collett have been cleared of inciting racial hatred after a retrial at Leeds Crown Court.

Mr Griffin, 46, from Powys, Wales, had denied two charges of using words or behaviour intended to stir up racial hatred in a speech in Keighley. Mr Collett, 26, of Leicestershire, was cleared of four similar charges. The pair were charged in April 2005 after the BBC showed a secretly-filmed documentary “The Secret Agent” in 2004.

Mr Griffin smiled and nodded as the foreman of the jury read out the unanimous not guilty plea. Mr Collett, the party’s head of the publicity, said: “This is the BNP – two, BBC – nil.” He branded the BBC “cockroaches” and added: “The BBC have abused their position. They are a politically correct, politically biased organisation which has wasted licence fee payers money to bring two people in a legal, democratic, peaceful party to court over speaking nothing more than the truth.”

During the trial, the jury heard extracts from a speech Griffin made in the Reservoir Tavern in Keighley, on 19 January 2004, in which he described Islam as a “wicked, vicious faith” and said Muslims were turning Britain into a “multi-racial hell hole”. At the same event, Mr Collett addressed the audience by saying: “Let’s show these ethnics the door in 2004.”

In his closing argument, Nick Griffin’s barrister said his client’s speech was a “campaign speech of an official and legitimate party”.

BBC News, 10 November 2006

Muslim officer sacked from guarding Blair

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Muslim officer sackedAn experienced Muslim firearms officer has begun race and religious discrimination proceedings against the Metropolitan Police after he was removed from a close-protection unit guarding senior dignitaries, including Tony Blair.

Amjad Farooq, 39, a father of five, was told he was a threat to national security because his children had attended a mosque associated with a Muslim cleric linked to a suspected terrorist group. The officer was also told that his presence might upset the American secret service which worked closely with the Met’s close-protection group.

PC Farooq’s solicitor, Lawrence Davies, of the law firm Equal Justice, said last night he was unable to comment in detail about the case, but did say:

“We live in a society where it is possible to point a finger at a Muslim abroad and say that they have WMD and are a threat to national security and no questions are asked. Now those who ‘protect’ us feel emboldened to point the same finger at British Muslims. Muslims are labelled guilty by association. Doubt is insufficient to save them. They are assumed guilty before being proven innocent. We are very close to living in the days of Salem. If the head of counter-terrorism becomes a Witch-Finder General then any Muslim or Muslim-looking person or sympathiser best take cover.”

Independent, 7 November 2006

Update:  The fascists claim that the case “highlights the difficulties facing our security services as they wrestle with the need to maintain national security against a threat of global Islamic jihad, while at the same time having to play ball with the multiculturalists who have scant regard for Britain’s national security. The multiculturalists demand that ethnic and religious minorities need to be more ‘represented’ in the Police, security agencies and the military, yet a dilemma arises when it is clear to the very same security and intelligence agencies that a sizeable fifth column of dangerous extremists lurks within the 1.8 million strong Muslim community who want to wage about a jihad (holy war) against the non-Muslim population.”

BNP news article, 7 November 2006

BNP and leader ‘no longer racist’

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BNP Islam Out of BritainThe leader of the British National Party (BNP) has told a court that neither he nor his party are racist. Nick Griffin, 47, told Leeds Crown Court that in the early 1990s “the party could be described as racist” and himself “to a certain extent”. But he said this was no longer the case and said a speech in which he described Islam as a “wicked, vicious faith” was not intended to stir racial hatred.

The married father-of-four said he had studied the Koran for many years, and his research had led him to the conclusion that the problems he perceived in local communities were not racial, but cultural and religious.

The jury was shown extracts from the Koran, books on Islam and reports about the religion, which Mr Griffin used to claim support for his view of Muslims. He said the Koran provided an excuse for terrorists and radical Muslims, such as Egyptian-born cleric Abu Hamza. “He’s not a crazy extremist who is perverting Islam. He is getting this from the book.”

BBC News, 7 November 2006

BNP backs bish

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The fascist British National Party has applauded the anti-Muslim comments by the Bishop of Rochester. They are particularly taken with the Bishop’s observation, in relation to Muslims, that “there can never be sufficient appeasement and new demands will continue to be made” – which is of course what the fascists themselves have repeatedly asserted.

The BNP’s Kent correspondent adds: “It is increasingly apparent that there are a growing number of people within the Church of England who are prepared to publicly express their concerns on issues related to the growth and influence of Islam in Britain in these troubled times – this is all to the good!”

BNP regional report, 5 November 2006

Charles Johnson is equally enthusiastic about the bishop’s call for an end to the appeasement of Islam: “This is exactly right, and has been borne out time and time again. It’s a primitive, tribal mentality that exists outside of rationality.”

Little Green Footballs, 5 November 2006

Anti-fascists express disgust at BNP

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BNP NoAnti-fascist campaigners waving flags and placards gave BNP leader Nick Griffin a noisy reception as he arrived at Leeds Crown Court to answer race-hate charges yesterday. Mr Griffin was also greeted by a handful of far-right supporters as he arrived with co-defendant Mark Collett.

The BNP leader is charged over a speech he made in West Yorkshire in 2004, which was filmed by an undercover BBC reporter. Mr Collett faces four similar charges relating to two speeches that he made in the town during the same year.

Rodney Jameson QC opened the prosecution’s case by detailing the alleged racist remarks. He said that Mr Griffin had told a crowd at the Reservoir Tavern in Keighley, on January 19 2004, that Islam was a “wicked, vicious faith.” Mr Griffin is also alleged to have said that Asian Muslims were turning Britain into a multiracial “hell” as they tried to conquer the country. Mr Jameson said that Mr Griffin had urged the gathering to vote BNP to ensure that “the British people really realise the evil of what these people have done to our country.”

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Self-immolation – a new trend among Islamophobes?

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“Angered and distressed by the threat of the evils of Islam to his country, his homeland, his family and his kinfolk a German vicar committed suicide by setting himself alight on Tuesday (31st) in protest. The 73 year old Roland Weisselberg poured petrol over himself and set fire to himself in the Erfurt monastery, where Martin Luther took his monastic vows in 1505. Tuesday was a national holiday in parts of Germany to celebrate the Protestant Reformation. Despite robust efforts by many on the scene who rushed to extinguish the flames, Mr. Weisselberg later died of his injuries. In a farewell letter to his wife the vicar wrote that he was setting himself on fire to warn against the danger of the Islamification of Europe.”

BNP news article, 2 November 2006

We can only hope that Nick Griffin and the entire BNP leadership are inspired to follow Mr Weisselberg’s example.

BNP not racist shock

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bnp-islam-poster“46-year old Nick Griffin is the head of the British National Party, which is sometimes described as ‘far-right’ and demonized in the media.

“Two years ago, he was talking about what he thought about Islam and asylum-seekers. Unbeknownst to Mr Griffin, he was being secretly filmed by the BBC. The comments were then screened on ‘The Secret Agent’, a documentary which was more of a PC smear campaign than an objective assessment of the current BNP party policy….

“The BNP had a previous history of racism from when it first began, but Nick Griffin has moved the party forward like no other figurehead before, and overt ‘racism’ has not featured in any of its documents or policies since he became leader. The party is against immigration, against the culture of giving tax-payers’ money to so-called ‘asylum-seekers’, and most importantly, it is against the spread of Islam.”

Western Resistance, 2 November 2006

Worth noting that the proprietor of this site is also a great admirer of Peter Tatchell.

Anti-fascists to gather at Griffin and Collett retrial

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BNP Islam Out of BritainYorkshire anti-fascist activists will gather at Leeds Crown Court this morning when two leading BNP members arrive to face a retrial on race-hate allegations. BNP leader Nick Griffin and party activist Mark Collett have been summoned to reappear at the court, which cleared the pair of two charges back in January but failed to reach a verdict on two other indictments.

The case arose from remarks made by each individual during speeches to supporters back in 2004, which were secretly recorded by a documentary team and broadcast on national television. After describing immigrants to Britain as “cockroaches,” Mr Collett ended his address by appealing to fellow party members to “show the ethnics the door in 2004,” while Mr Griffin was filmed branding Islam a “wicked, vicious faith.”

Anti-fascist campaigners have called on local people to show their opposition to the racist politics of the BNP by rallying outside the court building this morning from 9am. Urging the largest possible turnout, Yorkshire and Humberside UAF chairman John Campbell said: “It is vital that we have a large united presence at this peaceful anti-fascist rally.”

Teaching union NASUWT general secretary Chris Keates added: “These public demonstrations against the BNP and its leaders send a clear message that the pernicious views and activities of such groups will not be tolerated. NASUWT is participating in this demonstration because those who support racist and fascist agendas must be exposed and opposed.”

Morning Star, 1 November 2006

Fascists defend right to incite hatred against Muslims

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“The retrial of the Free Speech Two, Nick Griffin and Mark Collett starts in Leeds tomorrow (November 1st). Both men are facing charges of using words likely to incite racial hatred for daring to criticise the failed experiment of multiculturalism and describe the alien religion of Islam as a ‘wicked faith’. A charge which seems utterly ludicrous in the context of all that has been perpetrated in the name of Allah at home and abroad in recent years, never mind the centuries of conflict and bloodshed in the Middle East, North Africa, Iberia and the Balkans.

“For daring to stand up and tell the truth about the threat in our midst the two accused could face up to seven years in prison in a court in a supposed western democracy where ‘the truth is no defence’; a situation akin to the Inquisition or the witchcraft trials of the 17th century.”

BNP news article, 31 October 2006