Islamophobia colours Austrian elections

Islamophobia is coloring the election campaigns of right-leaning parties, vying to court the votes of anti-immigrant voters in the October parliamentary polls. “Far-right candidates play Islamophobia and xenophobia because they do not have real political programs,” Tarafa Baghajati, Deputy Chairman of the European Network Against Racism (ENAR), told IslamOnline.net.

Amid the aggressive campaigns, an explosive charge was planted outside the Austrian Muslim Youth (MJO) building in Vienna on Monday, but it was destroyed in a controlled explosion. A neo-Nazi slogan found on the package read “July 4 1926, Weimar” – an apparent reference to a key meeting that allowed Hitler to increase his control over the Nazi party.

In pamphlets widely circulated in the streets and election booths, the Freedom Party (FPÖ) dismisses Islam as a threat to the Christian identity of Austria. It claims that several parties, which it did not name, were trying to Islamize Europe and render its natives a minority in their own countries.

One of the FPÖ ads replaces the cross atop the famous Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna, the oldest church in the country, with an Islamic crescent with the comment: “This is the true hidden desire of Muslims.” Another one shows a group of hijab-clad woman with a comment that Austria must be a social state not a country of immigrants.

Islam Online, 14 September 2006

Fascists reject ‘appeasement’ of ‘barbaric medieval desert religion’

BNP Islam Out of Britain“This is a conference of appeasement to the communities which harbour individuals who will stop at nothing to bomb our cities and kill innocent people to force their religion on an unwilling population…. Thousands of Londoners and visitors alike still bear the physical and mental scars of the 7/7 Islamic terror attacks on the Tube yet our well paid senior police officers sit down to cornflakes and toast with so-called community leaders representing ethnic and religious minority groups that are prepared to bomb, kill, rape and maim to get their way.”

The British National Party takes exception to the news that Tim Godwin, Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, will be the special guest at the Second Annual London Peace Talks, a breakfast meeting for leaders of communities, faith groups, and public services at the Greater London Authority on Monday 11 September.

Instead, the fascists call for “a firm policy which can only come from a nationalist government that our capital city and our country is not up for discussion, not open to questions of ownership and that we are not going to make one single concession to those who choose to temporarily live here who adhere to a barbaric medieval desert religion”.

BNP news article, 8 September 2006

Minaret ban in Switzerland?

Projects to build minarets in several communities in German-speaking Switzerland have come up against strong opposition from local residents.

On Monday the Zurich cantonal parliament said it would look into banning the construction of minarets across the canton. The decision came after parliament accepted an initiative from the rightwing Swiss People’s Party calling for the canton’s planning laws to be altered to forbid minarets.

The move has been condemned by centre-left and centre-right parties as well as by a leading Muslim organisation in the canton.

The Swiss Federal Commission against Racism last week called for more tolerance towards Muslims. It called on local authorities to show greater flexibility over building and zoning restrictions to allow the construction of religious buildings and to “reduce populist pressures”.

Swissinfo, 5 September 2006

Muslims are ‘death cult warriors in suicide belts’ says Nazi leader

Nazi scumNick Griffin explains the problem with Muslims:

“It’s not just about Israel, or Palestine, or lraq (where, after all, the vast majority of civilian deaths have been at the hands of sectarian Muslims). It is also about their conviction that it’s their mission to Islamify Europe in general and Britain in particular. They see our lands as halfway towards falling into their hands, and read every attempt by the liberal Establishment to keep ‘moderate’ Islam onside as a further example of the weakness and decadence of our society. To them, our allowing their religion to be taught in our schools is not about multiculturalism or teaching ‘respect’, it’s a symptom of a society that has lost its way, that has forgotten its own roots – a society that it is Allah’s Will shall and must turn to the Way of the Prophet Mohammed (‘Peace Be Upon Him’, as our children will shortly have to say and write in schools).

“This is the problem for those who say that all we have to do to dodge the Clash of Civilisations is to change our policy in the Middle East. This is the line from all sorts of people, from leftists and liberals right through to neo-Nazis. But they are all either mistaken, fooling themselves, or lying. It’s too late for that; they don’t just want to get ‘the West’ out of Muslim lands, they also want to impose Islam on the West. The combination of ignorance and cowardice among our ruling elite that leads them to try to appease this unappeasable monster only serves to encourage them.

“There is no point in the cowards and apologists gesturing towards moderate strands of Islamic thought…. We have to deal with Islam as it is, not as liberals would wish it to be. Which means we have to deal with death cult warriors in suicide belts, not ascetic Holy Men wandering around in loin cloths.”

Chairman’s Column, 5 September 2006

‘Winning the War on Terror’ – fascists offer their advice

The British National Party responds to the deaths of British soldiers in Afghanistan:

“If we are to bring about a victory in the War on Terror, then we must do so the British way. Uncuff the hands of the soldiers, and ensure that no lawyer in this country, can bring about any charges of any kind against any soldier for his/her actions in a foreign land…. We can win this war, and in doing so, put the fear of God into those British born, hate filled Muslims, that the only recourse for them, is to repatriate themselves back to their country of origin. Continual appeasement of the Muslim ‘community’ in Britain, by this treacherous New Labour regime, is the biggest crime of treason this country has ever seen. Whilst our boys are dying in a remote, inhospitable land, our politicians and senior policemen seek to ’embrace’ the Muslim community, rather than to fight it. ”

BNP news article, 4 September 2006

White extremists use terror videos to threaten Muslims

Far-right extremists have adopted the tactics of Islamic jihadists by posting videos on the internet in which they threaten to behead British Muslims.

The films show balaclava-clad white British men brandishing guns, knives and clubs, calling on all Muslims to leave the United Kingdom or be killed. One appears to be a soldier who has served in the Gulf. In one film a man tells Muslims to “go home” or risk being burnt alive. He threatens: “I’ll cut your head off,” and claims to have “comrades” across Britain who have “had enough”.

The videos have all been made since the arrest three weeks ago of suspects connected to the alleged plot to blow up transatlantic jets. Their style mimics the “martyrdom videos” of Islamic radicals talking about their plans for terrorist outrages against the West.

The release of the videos on YouTube, an American-based open-access website, coincides with reports of a rise in the number of attacks on mosques. Massoud Shadjareh, chairman of the Islamic Human Rights Commission, said the videoed threats were extremely worrying. “There is no question there has been an increase in attacks on mosques and Muslims,” he said.

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Fascists in Belgium – they’re not far-right racists but Muslims!

Vlaams BelangThe Wall Street Journal carries a piece by Bret Stephens reporting favourably on developments in the Belgian far-right party Vlaams Belang (formerly the Vlaams Blok, which officially dissolved itself in 2004 after being convicted of inciting racial hatred). Noting that the party has a history of Nazi sympathies and Holocaust denial, Stephens adds:

“But that’s changing. Younger party leaders, realizing their anti-Semitic taint was poison, began making pro-Israel overtures. And the party’s tough-on-crime, hostile-to-Muslims stance began to attract a considerable share of the Jewish vote, particularly among Orthodox Antwerp Jews who felt increasingly vulnerable in the face of the city’s hostile Muslim community. Today, Vlaams Belang is the largest single party in the country.”

Stephens continues: “Meanwhile, the real fascists in Belgium are gaining strength, largely protected from scrutiny by the country’s ‘anti-racism’ legislation. At Brussels’s Imam Reza mosque, a preacher commemorated the 17th anniversary of the Ayatollah Khomeini’s death: ‘The enemies cannot extinguish the light of the Islamic Revolution.’ And in Molenbeek, the newspaper Het Volk published a study of the local Muslim population: The editor, Gunther Vanpraet, described the commune as ‘a breeding ground for thousands of Jihad candidates’.”

Wall Street Journal, 22 August 2006

‘British Muslim leaders’ and ‘sharia law’

Shahid_MalikAfter some thirty Muslim representatives met with Ruth Kelly on 14 August, the media spin on the discussion was that “Muslim leaders” had proposed that holidays should be introduced to mark Muslim festivals and that Muslim communities should be allowed to operate Islamic legal codes for marriage and family life.

This was reported in the Daily Mail  under the headline “Muslims call for special bank holidays“, while the Daily Mirror headlined their report “We must not give in to Muslim blackmail“. The Daily Star informed its readers that “British Muslims have demanded special bank holidays for religious festivals…. They also called for the UK to have Sharia law, which in the Middle East includes penalties such as stonings and amputations”, and the fascists of the British National Party echoed the Mirror with “Labour ministers threatened with Islamic blackmail“.

Ever eager to grasp the opportunity for a spot of self-promotion, Labour MP Shahid Malik contributed an article to yesterday’s Sunday Times, headlined “If you want sharia law, you should go and live in Saudi“, in which he wrote that he had been “asked by the media whether I agreed that what British Muslims needed were Islamic holidays and sharia (Islamic law). I thought I had walked into some parallel universe. Sadly this was not a joke. These issues had apparently formed part of the discussion the day before between Prescott, Ruth Kelly, the communities minister, and a selection of ‘Muslim leaders’. I realised then that it wasn’t me and the media who were living in a parallel universe – although certain ‘Muslim leaders’ might well be…. When Lord Ahmed, the Muslim Labour peer, heard my comments – I said essentially that if Muslims wanted sharia they should go and live somewhere where they have it – he accused me of doing the BNP’s work.”

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‘We will ban MCB’, fascists boast

“The recent letter by various Muslims in the UK and Muslim organisations demanding changes to British foreign policy is an act of unparalleled arrogance…. UK foreign policy has nothing to do with causing Islamic terrorism in the world today as the apologists say – it is solely Islam that is the basis of Islamic terrorism not UK foreign policy…. The BNP intend to ban all so called ‘Religious Organisations’ such as the Muslim Council of Great Britain that openly support an overt political agenda, get involved in political campaigns or that interfere in political issues.”

BNP news article, 15 August 2006

‘BNP call to ban Muslims from our skies’

BNP demonstration“Once again, British people are being inconvenienced by the activities of home grown Muslim terrorists who, it appears, have conspired to plant bombs on passenger planes leaving the UK…. The British National Party Executive’s solution to this problem is to ban immediately, ALL MUSLIMS from flying out of (and in to) Britain until the security situation has been fully resolved.”

BNP news article, 10 August 2006

In a further item on the subject, the fascists write:

“Many Muslim leaders who claim to be community spokesmen have tried to reassure the population at large that there is not a significant terrorist threat in this country from their community. They have gone out of their way to emphasis that recent high-profile raids have wrongly singled out members of their community. In words tantamount to blackmail they have suggested that if this targetting of their communities continues there is a risk of unrest. As such it should be obvious to all that there is an orchestrated and devious attempt to obstruct the job of our security services in a calculated Islamocentric and politically motivated manner.

“The raids today which appear to have been carried out after lengthy and detailed intelligence operations may have thankfully saved several thousand innocent lives and spared thousands more the grief of losing a family member or friend in an horrific orgy of murder and carnage over the Atlantic. The raids once again undermine the stance of the Muslim spokesmen who claim there is no threat from their community.

“Our readership should observe very closely the way in which Labour and the BBC put the security of this country at risk by downplaying the real threat in an attempt to preserve ‘community cohesion’.

“Further let’s demand an apology from these so-called community spokesmen made directly to the non-Muslim majority population for the massive disruption, fear and financial damage that members of their community have inflicted upon us today.”

BNP news article, 10 August 2006