Gary Younge in today’s Guardian traces the upsurge in anti-Muslim bigotry to Jack Straw’s attack on the niqab in 2006:
Three years ago this month Jack Straw argued his case for urging Muslim women who attend his MP’s surgery to remove their niqab. He said that he wanted to start a debate. In this, […]
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Melanie Phillips: The true cause of the BNP’s rise
Melanie Phillips had this article published yesterday in the Daily Mail (also on her home page) and she comes out with her usual line about the BNP being a vile, racist party, but that politicians are to blame for its rise because they do not address the […]
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The BBC is being called on to investigate how two senior members of the British National Party were allowed to appear semi-anonymously on the youth-targeted Radio 1 Newsbeat programme. Mark Collett, BNP publicity director, and Joseph Barber who runs the BNP’s record label Great White Records, were presented as simply “Mark and Joey”. […]
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BBC - BBC Radio 4 Programmes - File on 4, 22/09/2009
File on 4 investigates the football hooligan racists who have been going around causing trouble in various British cities. They claim to be against “Muslim extremism”, but their chants include phrases distinctly offensive to any Muslims, “extremist” or otherwise, and people who have tried […]
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Mark Steel: So has anyone really been ‘Islamified’ against their will? - Mark Steel, Commentators - The Independent
Mark Steel tears into the ridiculous myths about the ‘Islamification of Europe’ peddled by some on the far right (HT: Julaybib):
The arguments of the far-right groups are already obviously ridiculous. The latest slogan they march under […]
Martin Sullivan at Islamophobia Watch on his ongoing debate with Edmund Standing, a contributor to Harry’s Place and author of a recent think tank report which plays up the BNP’s anti-Semitism and plays down its Islamophobia, explains that the BNP’s shift towards Islamophobia is not just a vote-winning move:
I also agree with the […]
Fear and Hatred on the Streets of Luton from the Sunday Times
A very long and comprehensive article (you can also see it in four parts here: [1], [2], [3], [4]) on the unrest in Luton prompted by the tiny protest by al-Muhajiroun against the soldiers’ parade in March. You will notice that it includes […]
The rise of British racism may be horribly close — The Spectator
Fraser Nelson goes “on the stump” (meaning, out knocking on doors) with BNP activists in Hertfordshire and discovers that people are no longer convinced that the BNP are the same racist thugs they were ten years ago, and that even local Black people are […]
The story is starting to come out regarding the display of thuggery and bigotry in Luton last Sunday, in which a group of about 200 broke away from a bigger march and headed for the town centre, clearly intending to reach the Bury Park area to attack local Asians. As is common with these […]
The Sun today featured the story of a former British soldier whose image was featured in a British Nazi Party election leaflet, in uniform next to the words, “we’re fed up with being sent ill-equipped into foreign wars. The BNP will bring our troops home and ensure that British troops will not be abused […]
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