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Posts Tagged ‘Islamism’

Nick Griffin ally to attend Islamist conference in London

Friday, October 16th, 2009

Jobbik's militia

A leading member of the European fascist movement, Kristina Morvai MEP, is visiting Britain in December to speak at a pro-Hamas event, sharing a platform with Lady Tonge and Claire Short MP.
 
Nothing British regards her presence as a genuine, present and sufficiently serious threat to community harmony and therefore public security in the UK to warrant an intervention by the Home Office. We recommend that the Home Secretary should ban her in accordance with regulation 21 of the Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2006. We believe that her  exclusion is justified on grounds of public policy and public security and that she should be refused admission to the UK under regulation 19.
 
Nothing British has written previously of the BNP’s efforts to tap into the growing voter scepticism about the war in Afghanistan. We wrote about a proposed BNPMarch on London” that was going to include a veterans parade to call on policy makers to bring the troops home. While hiding their extremist political identities, they have written to several veterans charities including Afghan Heroes and The Royal British Legion asking for their support on the march.
 
This week we have learnt that Kristina Morvai MEP, leader of Jobbik in the European Parliament, has been invited by the Palestinian Return Centre to attend a rally in London on the 16th December 2009. The PRC is a Hamas front and has stood in opposition to peace between Israel and Palestinians. In November 2008 PRC director Majed Al Zeer shared a platform with Hamas leader Khaled Maashal in Damascus. 
 
hamasIn a Press Release to Nothing British the PRC says that it is hosting the conference to “commenerate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the United Nationas Relief and Works Agency”. It goes on to give the following anti-Israel statement:
 
“The enormous tragedy which UNRWA faces is unquestionable. More than Six decades have now passed since the collective dispossession and forced expulsion of Palestinians from their ancestral home in Palestine because of Zionist aggression. For 5 Million Palestinians, forced exile still continuous and their Nakba – catastrophy- is still a daily reality.”
 
Jobbik is an extremist neo-Nazi political party with a paramilitary organization with SS-style uniforms called the Hungarian Guard (it was recently outlawed by Hungary’s High court). It proposes to abolish abortion, re-establish the death penalty and create a special police unit to deal with “gypsy delinquency.” The Guard routinely takes part in menacing marches through Roma, or Gypsy, areas and has been accused by some Hungarian politicians for the murder of some Gypsys.
 
Speaking at its annual 1956 rally in Budapest, to commerate the uprising, Nick Griffin said that Britain had “betrayed” Hungary during this period and said he was “speaking on behalf of the people of Western Europe”. In his maiden speech he praised Kristina Morvai.
 
Kristina Morvai is a well known anti-semite who in June 2009 wrote on an internet forum: 
 
“I would be greatly pleased if those who call themselves proud Hungarian Jews played in their leisure with their tiny circumcised dicks, instead of besmirching me. Your kind of people are used to seeing all of our kind of people stand to attention and adjust to you every time you fart. Would you kindly acknowledge this is now OVER. We have raised our head up high and we shall no longer tolerate your kind of terror. We shall take back our country.” 
 
This 2009 Jobbik propaganda video which has been banned by Hungarian authorities:
http://www.jobbik.com/videos/3114.html
 
Also speaking at this rally are Liberal Democrat Peer Baroness Jenny Tonge and Claire Short MP. The PRC denied in conversations with Nothing British that they have invited Ms Morvai. The Palestinian Telegraph reported yesterday that she was. Nothing British spoken to Ms Morvai’s assistant, Zsanett Makkai, this morning she is intending on coming, commitments pending.

Important report rebutting BNP’s Moslem scare-mongering

Friday, August 21st, 2009

quiliam reportHats off to an important new report from The Quilliam Foundation (In Defence of British Muslims: A Response to BNP racist propaganda- Lucy James) which disects the BNP’s rhetoric against Moslems and the Moslem world.

The report analyses particularly well the BNP’s general attitude to Islam, for instance the way they conflate Islamism (the violent and political ideology) with the religion of Islam, how the  BNP routinely sensationalizes “unacceptable practices within Islam” and how they propagate dangerous falsehoods about the Muslim community in Britain. And it rightly reminds us that  the overwhleming majority of Moslems live peacefully alongside their fellow non-Muslim countrymen.

Lucy James’s bravely wrote in yesterday’s Guardian that simply dismissing the BNP’s ideology as racist or bigoted or resorting to violence isn’t working. “There needs to be a greater focus on intellectually undermining it through a systematic deconstruction of its arguments,” she says. We completely agree.

A couple of things are missing.

The report rightly reminds us that the total number of Moslems in Britain are often exagerated and the BNP’s scare-mongering about “national Islamification” are ridiculous. That said, the report overlooks the experience of people living in northern mill towns or the Thames estuary where high concentrations of Moslem immigrants have transformed communities in recent years. And it is no surprise that the BNP have made considerable in-roads amongst white working-class residents whose lives have changed as a result.

Secondly, the report rightly recognises that there is a wide-spread of opinion within the Moslem religion (as with any religion) and it helpfully reminds us of the tolerant and liberal attitudes that underpin mainstream Islam. However, its representation of modern Islam does not help explain where the inflamatory rhetoric and extremist  ideology fits in, and why we have home-grown bombers, tasteless demonstrations against war veterans and the repression of Moslem women. What we need to explain is how to differentiate between our commendable mainstream Moslem neighbours and the bad eggs who cause all the trouble.

What’s next?

 This useful rubuttal of the BNP’s anti-Moslem propaganda leaves the door open for a piece of work that provides answers to confused voters living in the streets of communities like Barking, Barnesley and Burnley. I’d like to see something a bit nitty-gritty that debunks the specific accusations made against Moslems (such as the grooming and drug-trading stories that Jane mentions) that could be used on the door-step in the next election.

Also read: The Centre for Social Cohesion’s helpful report on the BNP’s activities on the web.