Under the headline “Pope’s quote echoes Nick Griffin’s concern”, the British National Party claims, not entirely unreasonably, that Pope Benedict’s attack on Islam bears a certain similarity to that made by BNP leader Nick Griffin:

“The Department of Public Prosecutions must be cursing the Pope after his remarks on Islam appeared to echo those of the British National Party chairman.

“In a speech to BNP members, Nick Griffin warned those present that Islam was a ‘wicked and vicious’ faith. These words and his chillingly correct prediction that 2nd generations Muslims living in Britain would become Britain’s first suicide bombers, led to him being arrested and charged with inciting racial hatred.

But now Pope Benedict XVI, in a lecture at a German University, has quoted a Byzantine emperor who characterized the Prophet Mohammed as introducing ‘things only evil and inhuman’ to the world and spreading Islam by the sword. As if to prove him correct, Muslims responded by burning down churches and killing a nun.”

Freedom, October 2006

“Reid is keen to dismiss the idea of a clash of cultures because it undermines everything he believes; he ignores the evidence and refuses to recognise that it’s happening now. And he attempts to explain it away by arguing that the ‘meaning of Islam has been hijacked by extremists who are using it to sustain a violent and indiscriminate war’. According to Reid the people who bomb, threaten, and kill are not Muslims ‘in the true sense of the word’….

“That the Home Secretary tried to enlist Britain’s Muslim communities to do more to combat the extremists in their midst is an indication of his lack of understanding of the situation. He makes the mistake of believing that everyone aspires to see the world through the liberal looking glass. It is self delusion of the most dangerous kind. Muslims view the world according to the dictates of their own beliefs; their truths and realities are not the truths and realities of Western middle class liberals. All Muslims have as their long term aim the subjugation of the world under an Islamic theocracy – ‘Muslims do not need British values. We believe Islam is superior, we believe Islam will be implemented one day’.

“Reid and the rest of the utterly gutless creatures that constitute the liberal establishment are trying to appease themselves out of a predicament with Islam that is entirely of their own making. They refuse to recognise that to the Muslim mindset appeasement and diplomacy as signs of weakness to be taken advantage of; Reid’s interventions are encouraging the very clash of cultures that they are designed to deny.”

Joe Priestley on the BNP website, 28 September 2006

Why Muslims are these men’s current target

By Geoff Brown

Morning Star, 20 September 2006

A sinister alliance has developed between far-right groups and Islamist extremists who are united in their hatred of Jews, Israel and zionism and are contributing to increasing anti-semitism in Britain.

At least that’s how Ruth Gledhill of The Times reported the findings of the all-party parliamentary inquiry into anti-semitism.

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“Smooth talking ‘moderate’ Muslims try to convince us non-believers that Islam is the religion of peace, a task made impossible by their co-religionists who have not heeded the peace message. In response to a quote made by Pope Benedict XVI in a speech on Tuesday Muslims have been busy burning effigies of the Pope and burning down churches, hardly the response of those who practice a religion of peace….

“The West is constantly asked to tolerate the presence of this pre-medieval desert faith but its practitioners have no understanding of tolerance themselves, no concept of free speech which allows comment and criticism of any faith, cult or political ideology, a concept which itself is in peril due to Marxist inspired political correctness and supine liberal appeasement to the fifth column of Muslims already here in the UK and in countries across western Europe.”

BNP news article, 16 September 2006