A message of support from the British National Party: “Well done to Anthony Browne for putting across the case against Political Correctness so well….”
BNP news article, 4 January 2006
The Metro article that the BNP applauds, which plugs Browne’s views on political correctness, in fact features a photograph of Anthony Browne the children’s fiction writer! Hopefully, he’ll sue.
A Muslim political leader in the Netherlands on Wednesday dismissed as “ridiculous” a motion in parliament to forbid women from wearing burqas in public, calling it an overreaction to an issue that barely exists in the country.
A motion to ban burqas robes that cover the entire body and veil the face passed in an 80-70 vote in parliament late on Tuesday, and the government is drafting a Bill to make the proposal into law. The immigration minister has promised to report back to the 150-member parliament by February.
It is “an overreaction to a very marginal problem” because hardly any Dutch women wear burqa, said Ayhan Tonca of the Muslim political organisation known by its acronym CMO. “It’s just ridiculous,” Tonca told The Associated Press.
The idea was proposed by maverick lawmaker Geert Wilders, a politician known for his criticism of religious fundamentalism and for his anti-immigration policies. Burqas are “medieval, and unfriendly to women”, Wilders said in a telephone interview.
“This measure will serve to promote integration by preventing Muslim women from separating themselves from Dutch society, and by giving comfort and support to moderate Muslims.”
The Dutch immigration minister says she will look into the legality of banning the burqa, the robes worn by some Muslim women to cover their bodies. Rita Verdonk made the pledge after a majority in parliament said it would support such a ban. The proposal was put forward by independent politician Geert Wilders.
“That women should walk the streets in a totally unrecognisable manner is an insult to everyone who believes in equal rights,” he said. “This law is a comfort to moderate Muslims and will contribute to integration in the Netherlands,” he added in a statement.
His proposal is supported by two of the parties in the governing centre-right coalition, as well as the opposition right-wing party founded by the late Pim Fortuyn.
Mrs Verdonk did not say when she might complete her investigation. If the Netherlands does decide to ban the burqa, it will be the first European country to do so.
Five white supremacists have been arrested carrying material to build petrol bombs, enabling police to claim they were vindicated after locking down more than 200km of beaches to prevent a repeat of Sydney’s ugly race riots.
The men, dressed in camouflage gear, were caught yesterday in the southern suburb of Brighton-le-Sands carrying equipment to make Molotov cocktails including 25l jerry cans filled with petrol, as well as commando-style utility belts and Kevlar helmets.
The lockdown occurred on a perfect summer weekend when many Sydneysiders were winding down ahead of Christmas and forced Premier Morris Iemma to deny the gangs had won the battle. Police officers also found car stickers promoting the white supremacist movement in the men’s car.
The Australian, 19 December 2005
Meanwhile, in today’s Observer, Australian novelist Gabrielle Carey explains: “The war is essentially between one group of macho men and another. The hatred and bigotry shown by the blond Cronulla boys is equalled by that demonstrated by their enemies, ‘the Lebs’.”
The fascists have picked up on the leaked Pentagon briefing paper warning of the Islamic threat to western civilisation:
“As the Pentagon finally sees the light, and has now begun to view the religion of Islam for what it is, when defining strategic plans in the War on Terror, will the New Labour government follow suit? Of course not. The pandering to the Muslim minority in Britain will continue. The British people, in four years time will have to face the indomitable truth. That truth is a simple choice – do we, as a once proud people lie down and accept foreign rule from a medieval and barbaric religion or should we make a stand? Should we fight to win against the forces of Jihad? Should we try and win back our country from those that would steal it from us?”
“Islam has indeed played an important role in British history for several hundred years although not in the positive way the apologists for multi-culturalism claim. The southern coasts of England, Cornwall and Wales were throughout the 17th, 18th and early 19th centuries particularly attractive to sea faring Muslims from north Africa. Their intent was not to settle and integrate, not to settle and build mosques but to steal away the population; forcing women and girls into sex slaves and the menfolk into becoming galley slaves and taken to markets in what is now Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco to be sold, exploited, abused and to face a life of agony and mental suffering from which death was the only escape. This dark period of British history has been swept under the carpet in recent years as the recounting of the horrific stories makes uncomfortable reading for those declining numbers of supporters of multi-culturalism.”
Hang on, I recall reading this somewhere else. Now, where was that? Ah yes, it’s coming back to me. It was here.
Australian Prime Minister John Howard called for ethnic and religious tolerance on Monday after racial violence, spurred on police say by white supremacists, erupted in parts of Sydney.
Racial tension sparked violence on Cronulla Beach on Sunday when around 5,000 people, some yelling racist chants, attacked youths of Middle Eastern background, saying they were defending their beach after lifesavers were attacked there last week.
Violence then spread to a second beach, Maroubra, where scores of men armed with baseball bats smashed about 100 cars.
“Attacking people on the basis of race and ethnicity is totally unacceptable and should be repudiated by all Australians, irrespective of background and politics,” Howard told a news conference on Monday, by which time the violence had subsided.
At Botany Bay, riot police confronted hundreds of youths and police said a man was stabbed in the back in a southern Sydney suburb in what media reports said appeared to be racial violence. New South Wales (NSW) police said a group of Neo-Nazis and white supremacists stirred on the drunken crowd at Cronulla.
“There appears to be an element of white supremacists and they really have no place in mainstream Australian society. Those sort of characters are best placed in Berlin 1930s, not in Cronulla 2005,” NSW Police Minister Carl Scully told reporters.
On Sunday, mobs of drunken and angry youths, some draped in Australian flags, shouted “No more Lebs (Lebanese)”. The mobs chased and attacked Australians of Middle East appearance, rushing onto a train at one stage to fight. More than 20 people were injured and 12 arrested.
Arabic and Muslim leaders said the violence had been expected as Muslims had been subjected to racist taunts, especially since the Iraq war and bombings on the Indonesian island of Bali where many Australians were among the dead.
“Arab Australians have had to cope with vilification, racism, abuse and fear of a racial backlash for a number of years, but these riots will take that fear to a new level,” said Australian Arabic Council chairman Roland Jabbour.
A few days after the Danish People’s Party (DF) punished its Copenhagen mayoral candidate for publishing racist remarks on her website, removing her from the post as the party spokesman on educational affairs, her successor went ahead and described the Muslim religion as a terrorist movement.
Defeated mayoral candidate Louise Frevert’s website compared Muslims with tumours, causing a public outrage. Though she blamed the statement on her website editor, DF punished her by removing her from a number of spokesman posts in parliament, including the one on educational policies.
Her replacement, Martin Henriksen, however, has also been criticised for having a website that is equally anti-Muslim. “From its beginning, Islam has been a terrorist movement”, Henriksen stated on his website, warning against letting Muslims run for office in parliament and municipal councils.
Another plug from the British National Party for Patrick Sookhdeo of the Barnabas Fund, whose warnings about the “threat of Sharia law” in Britain they repeat. (Rather belatedly – the original report was in the Church of England Newspaper back in September.)
BNP new article, 7 December 2005
We look forward to the BNP, Sookhdeo, Outrage and the Worker Communist Party of Iran launching a joint campaign on this issue.
