Category Archives: Far right racists

Attacking Islam hinders integration: Danish Muslims

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Muslim activists blasted recent anti-Islam remarks by a Danish lawmaker, cautioning that recurrent attacks on their faith by politicians and some media hinder the minority’s integration into society.

“The Muslim minority has for sometime been suffering from anti-Islam and anti-Muslim statements which send shockwaves through the minority,” Qassim Saeed Ahmed, the media officer of the Copenhagen-based Scandinavian Wakf, told IslamOnline.net.

MP Martin Henriksen of the People’s Party has recently described Islam as a “terror network,” describing Muslims and their faith as enemies of Western civilization. “Such statements infuriate Muslims and stymie their integration into the Danish society,” Ahmed said.

He stressed that the Scandinavian Wakf, the main Muslim organization in Denmark, is coordinating with other groups the possibility of taking the lawmaker to court.

Henriksen’s attack on Danes who revert to Islam have also triggered rebuke. “I think such statements would eventually having their toll on Muslim reverts,” Ahmed. The Danish legislator described Danes who embrace Islam as morally inferior, accusing them of betraying their roots and culture by becoming Muslims.

“This is unacceptable and violates Danish laws,” Abdul Wahid Pedersen, a Danish-born imam, told IOL. “Such statements demonstrate utter ignorance of the true teachings of Islam,” he added. Pedersen, who embraced Islam 28 years ago, shrugged out any influence of such hostility on himself. “But new reverts might be affected.”

Both Ahmed and Pedersen agreed that the more the Danes understand Islam, the more they will respect the Muslim faith and its believers.

Islam Online, 4 December 2005

BNP bottom of pile

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The British National Party came bottom of the poll in the Essex heartland of Thurrock last night. The neo-Nazi outfit trailed in last place in a council byelection held in the Homestead ward, Thurrock. The BNP had high hopes of winning a seat but were trounced by Labour’s Tony Benson. The party led by Nick Griffin came third in another byelection, in the Grays Riverside ward behind the winner, Labour’s Val Cook, and second-placed Sharon Ponder.

Sabby Dhalu, Unite Against Fascism Joint Secretary, said: “This is a great result particularly after a racist hoax leaflet attempting to stir up Islamophobia was distributed in both of the Thurrock wards. The vast majority of people abhor the BNP – a fascist, racist and homophobic organisation that is full of criminal thugs – and this majority made their voice heard.” BNP activists have been blamed for a hoax leaflet purporting to be from the “London East Islamic Movement”, an invented name.

BLINK news article, 2 December 2005

‘Muslim food – last straw for angry parents’ say fascists

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“Outraged parents in the West Midlands have called it the ‘last straw’, an insult to Christians and evidence that our country has ‘sold out’ to an alien religion. Several hundred pupils of the George Salter High School in West Bromwich were recently given a letter to take home to parents advising pupils and parents alike that Halal products would be on offer in the school canteen.”

BNP news article, 28 November 2005

‘Giant mosque planned by extremists for London Olympics site’

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The Sunday Times report that the Muslim proselytising organisation Tablighi Jamaat is hoping to raise finance for the construction of a new mosque as part of the Olympics redevelopment in London doesn’t find favour with the extreme Right. One website quotes that reliable source the Middle East Quarterly (founder: Daniel Pipes) to the effect that Tablighi Jamaat provides the ideological inspiration for al-Qaeda. “No wonder they want to erect a giant mosque and Islamic complex at the Olympic Games 2012. And the multiculturalist appeasers in Newham council, assisted by the appeasing fools in Blair’s government, will probably be jumping for joy to prove that Britain is tolerant of Islam by encouraging the construction of this proposed temple of terrorist ideology.”

Western Resistance, 26 November 2005

Complaint against extreme-right leader for ‘islamophobia’

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DewinterA multicultural youth association and an anti-racist movement in Belgium have lodged a complaint against the leader of an extreme-right party for his recent comments made in an interview with a Jewish American magazine.

“Kif Kif” and “MRAX” (Movement against Racism, Anti-Semitism and Xenophobia) requested the Antwerp prosecutor to press with charges against Filip Dewinter, head of the Flanders-based Vlaams Belang (or Flemish interest) party for “inciting hatred”. They also demanded that his parliamentary immunity be lifted and that public subsidies to the extreme-right party be cancelled.

In an interview with the New York-based “Jewish Week”, published last month, Dewinter admitted that his party has an “Islamophobia”. Asked why Jews should vote for a “xenophobic” party, Dewinter replied: “Xenophobia is not the word I would use. If it absolutely must be a phobia, let it be islamphobia.”

“Yes, we are afraid of Islam. The Islamisation of Europe is a frightening thing. If this process continues, the Jews will be the first victims. Europe will become as dangerous for them as Egypt or Algeria”, he added.

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‘The first step to Britishness is your poppy’

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Carol Gould claims she got into an altercation with “a young Arab man” on London’s Edgware Road because she was wearing a Remembrance Day poppy. Fortunately help was at hand, in the form of a BNP-sympathising taxi driver:

“I hailed a taxi and, thankfully, my pursuer, who was by this time shouting, did not get into the taxi. The driver was enormously sympathetic but told me that I had been ‘asking for it’ by walking in what he called ‘Little Beirut’. He then told me that we were in World War III. His white, working class anger at what he perceived as ‘the Islamic takeover’ of Britain was palpable. He was not the first London cabbie who has told me he would gladly join the far-right British National Party if pushed.

“(It is worth noting in this context that London Mayor Ken Livingstone is trying to institute an initiative to bring ethnic minorities into the taxi fleet, to tackle its almost exclusively white domain. Keeping in mind that Washington D.C. has one of the worst taxi systems in the world, in part because most drivers can barely speak English and do not know the meaning of the words ‘cordial’ or ‘polite’, especially where female passengers are concerned, one prays the Livingstone initiative will be approached with caution.)

“The driver dropped me at Marble Arch. I decided to walk back slowly should my scary have made his way in my direction. As I walked, I realized that not one of the hundreds of Middle Eastern and British-born Muslims who run all of the establishments along Edgware Road was wearing a poppy.”

Front Page Magazine, 25 November 2005

Why Britain needs a religious hatred law

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bnp-islam-posterWhy Britain needs a religious hatred law

By Murad Qureshi

Morning Star, 21 November 2005

This month anti-racists celebrated the fortieth anniversary of the introduction of the first race relations legislation in Britain.

Among its other provisions, the ground-breaking 1965 Race Relations Act made it an offence to use threatening, abusive or insulting words with intent to stir up racial hatred. However, while the Act marked an important first step in providing legal protection to minority communities from racism, it proved difficult to secure convictions for this particular offence.

In 1968 four members of a far-right organisation calling itself the Racial Preservation Society were prosecuted under the Act after publishing an anti-immigration newsletter in which they warned against “racial mixing” and accused politicians of encouraging “racial levelling.”

Even though the material plainly had the effect of inciting racial hatred, the prosecution was unable to prove that this was what the defendants intended – as was required by the 1965 Act. The defendants claimed that their intention was not to incite hatred but merely to educate the public about the consequences of immigration. As a result, they were acquitted.

In his inquiry into the death of Kevin Gately at an anti-fascist protest in London’s Red Lion Square in 1974, Lord Scarman argued that the racial hatred law needed “radical amendment to make it an effective sanction, particularly in relation to its formulation of the intent to be proved before an offence can be established.”

Subsequent legislation amended the law along the lines proposed by Lord Scarman. Part 3 of the 1986 Public Order Act improves on the original 1965 law by criminalising words and actions that have, or are likely to have, the objective effect of stirring up racial hatred. The 1986 Act allows the defence that the incitement of hatred was not intended, but, rather than the prosecution being required to prove intent, the onus is now on the defendant to demonstrate the absence of intent.

This is hardly a draconian law and, under the 1986 Act, it is still far from easy to mount a successful prosecution for inciting racial hatred. Earlier this year, the Attorney-General stated that, since 1987, when the Act came into force, only 65 people had been prosecuted for inciting racial hatred, resulting in 44 convictions. Indeed, the Commission for Racial Equality has complained that “the evidential test under the Public Order Act is extremely difficult to satisfy.”

A more fundamental weakness in the existing legislation, however, is that Jews and Sikhs are protected against incitement to racial hatred as members of monoethnic religions while multi-ethnic faith groups such as Muslims and Hindus are not.

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Nazi embraces Sookhdeo

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bnp-islam-posterBNP leader Nick Griffin warns of the threatening Muslim conquest of Europe, taking as his text an article by “Patrick Sookhdeo, the brave International Director of the Barnabas Fund”.

Der führer applauds Sookhdeo’s prescience: “Dr. Sookhdeo published his essay on ‘The Islamization of Europe‘ on August 11th, several months before the start of the weeks of carefully orchestrated violence by Muslim ‘youths’ in hundreds of French towns and cities gave us a glimpse into what we must all expect as the Islamists’ drive to take over our European homelands moves into its next phase.”

Griffin is not entirely uncritical, though: “Dr. Sookhdeo is to my mind downplaying his case – perhaps on account of not being in a position to keep such a close eye as ourselves on the multi-culti Islamophile activities of Britain’s liberal elite.”

Still, overall it’s an enthusiastic thumbs-up to Sookhdeo’s analysis from the fascists.

BNP website, 21 November 2005

Sookhdeo must be really proud of himself. Invitations from Boris Johnson to write for the Spectator, applause from Melanie Phillips, and now endorsement from the BNP. Evangelical Christians, Tories, right-wing Zionists and Nazi racists all coming together in one big happy Islamophobic family.

Would-be führer speaks

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BNP Islam Out of BritainNick Griffin addressed the massed ranks of the BNP (all 130 of them) at the fascists’ conference in London this weekend:

“… he explained the true long-term significance of the Islamic riots and commando-style arson wave in France, and of less dramatic developments in Britain such as the presence on Britain’s airwaves of more than thirty Islamic community radio stations during Ramadan. We are entering, he said, the Intifada phase of a well-organised Islamic drive to conquer the whole of Europe. This will become the overriding issue of our Age, and the only way in which the BNP – the only effective defenders of our traditions, freedoms, Western civilisation and identity – can win in this struggle is through organisation, sacrifice and unity.”

BNP news article, 20 November 2005

Yes, take out the party-political reference to the BNP, and it does rather sound like Melanie Phillips, doesn’t it?

Fascists take advantage of loophole in racial hatred law again

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“We are all now only too familiar with the despicable practice of Muslim gangs preying on white schoolgirls in Keighley for purposes of ‘grooming’. A process leading to a life of prostitution, drug addiction and degradation for the unfortunate girls concerned. We are also equally aware of how this matter is being played down and minimalized by officialdom, purely to ‘preserve good community relations’.

“So why do Muslim gangs seek out white and/or Christian, rather than Muslim, girls to pimp and exploit? Although we know this is a question that the Muslim Council of Great Britain could answer by quoting extensively from Koranic verse, we are not naïve enough to believe that they will so do. This being yet another question about their ‘religion of peace’ they cannot, or perhaps more accurately, dare not answer.”

BNP news article, 17 November 2005