Tag Archives: BNP

The BNP: Political party or quasi-religious cult?

By Guest | Published: January 15, 2010
This is a cross-post by Edmund Standing **** Commenting on the time he had spent with Mark Collett and the BNP while filming for the Dispatches programme ‘Young, Nazi, and Proud‘, film maker David Modell stated: To me, this organisation is no army, or even really a political party, more a fundamentalist movement – a cult. This analysis of [...]
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Terrorist? What Terrorist?

By Faisal | Published: October 22, 2009
The Times reports on a rally organised by United Against Fascism (UAF) at BBC Headquarters tonight to protest Nick Griffin’s appearance on Question Time. Speakers at the rally will include Ken Livingstone and Peter Hain. Mr Livingstone is to be applauded for employing his stentorian voice to rouse the 1,000 protestors expected. The UAF website interview [...]
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Is Ashley Cole British?

By Guest | Published: October 14, 2009
This is a guest post by Tariq **** Having listened to the two young ignoramuses put forward by the BNP to represent them on BBC’s Radio 1 last week, I began to think of a debate I had with some of my friends a few years ago. You see, all my life up until then I had never [...]
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Keeping the Pressure on the BNP

By Guest | Published: September 4, 2009
This is a guest post by Lucy James, a research fellow at Quilliam **** Last month, on the back of a paper entitled In Defence of British Muslims: A response to BNP racist propaganda (pdf), I called for Muslim communities, and the British public as a whole, to take a more united ideological stand against the BNP; [...]
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BNP’s “Reverend” West Refuses to Answer Questions About His Ordination

By Guest | Published: July 12, 2009
This eyewitness account is cross-posted from Hope not Hate, Norfolk **** Three Hope not hate campaigners went to meet the fake Reverend Robert West in Norwich today. The three campaigners approached Robert West and asked him to explain where he got the right to use the title “Reverend”. The BNP activists, who were rallying in a car [...]
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How to defeat white racist terrorism – the IPPR approach

By Guest | Published: July 6, 2009
This is guest post by Al-Qanaas Al-Masri ****************************** During the weekend, the British police announced that they had arrested 32 white extremists in Northern England and uncovered huge stocks of rocket-launchers, hand grenades and explosives. The men, at least one of who appears to be a member of the British National Party, were apparently planning attacks on [...]
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Mainstreaming Extremism

By Faisal | Published: July 3, 2009
Abdullah Hasan writes his views on how the government can tackle Islamic extremism on the Islamic Forum Europe (IFE) blog: The ways the government can eradicate extremism is by acknowledging that their foreign policy and their draconian laws against Muslims play an immense part in radicalising Muslims. They need to work with mainstream Muslim organisations such as [...]
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Increase legal action against BNP leaflets

By Faisal | Published: July 1, 2009
Chances are you’ve seen this BNP leaflet circulated or have  had it passed through your letterbox: It is a pernicious piece of race-hatred and anti-Muslim bigotry that has been around for years and has long required some form of legal action taken against it. The good news is that senior prosecutors are calling for laws on race [...]
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Knifey Spoony with Islamophobia

By Retired | Published: May 25, 2009
In a recent article on Harry’s Place, Edmund Standing quoted approvingly from this attack by Paul Sikander on the term “Islamophobia”: ‘Islamophobia’ is a constructed model designed to protect Islam and Islamic politics from criticism. It has little or nothing to do with protecting individual Muslims from discrimination. [...] Anti-Semitism when it was expressed, the earlier racism [...]
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Daily Express – With extremists, against law and order.

By Retired | Published: May 20, 2009
Why is it that the media keep paying so much attention to the tiny group of extremists al-Muhajiroun/whatever name they’re going by this week? It is very clear that the only beneficiaries are Anjem Choudary and his chums, who get free publicity for their views, and an array of other people of varying degrees of [...]
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