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British National Party leader detained [arrested] after calling Islam 'wicked faith'
AFP via Yahoo ^
| 12/14/2004
| Staff
Posted on 12/14/2004 5:36:48 PM PST by sarah_f
LONDON (AFP) - The leader of the rightwing British National Party(BNP), Nick Griffin, was arrested Tuesday after he called Islam a "vicious, wicked faith" in a television documentary.
Griffin, 45, was arrested on suspicion of "incitement to commit racial hatred" and held for questioning by police in northern England before he was released on bail several hours later.
When asked if he considered Islam a "vicious, wicked faith", Griffin urged reporters to study the Koran for themselves before saying: "There are aspects of that religion which are wicked."
He then condemned the treatment of women under Islam.
The BNP, which won 800,000 votes but no seats in the European elections in June, charged the arrest was part of a "crude" bid by Prime Minister Tony Blair (news - web sites)'s government to win back Muslim votes lost over his war in Iraq (news - web sites).
A BNP spokesman said four non-uniformed police officers raiding the family farmhouse in Wales "awoke the Griffin household from their sleep" early Tuesday.
Griffin was the 12th person arrested in connection with the investigation into the BBC documentary aired in July.
The BNP's founding chairman John Tyndall, 70, was arrested on suspicion of the same offense on Sunday following a speech he made in the northwestern city of Burnley in March.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bnp; eurabia; griffin; hatespeech; islam; johntyndall; muslimwomen
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To: sarah_f
Its amazing isnt it ? your eyes open to the threat of islam and you get arrested for seeing it for what it is !
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posted on
12/14/2004 5:55:14 PM PST
by
ATOMIC_PUNK
(Lets keep God and Ban Liberals !)
To: Kurt_D
And of course... this will only ADD votes to this vicious party. What a faux pas of the British government!
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posted on
12/14/2004 5:55:25 PM PST
by
Kurt_D
To: sarah_f
How does criticizing religion amount to "racial hatred"?
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posted on
12/14/2004 5:55:32 PM PST
by
Sloth
(Al Franken is a racist.)
To: sarah_f
Confusion will be my epitaph.
Keep yer powder dry folks. That's the only thing I'm not confused about.
FMCDH(BITS)
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posted on
12/14/2004 5:55:59 PM PST
by
nothingnew
(Kerry is gone...perhaps to Lake Woebegone)
To: Kurt_D
Griffin is leading the BNP from much of the rascism of the Tyndell era.
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posted on
12/14/2004 5:56:03 PM PST
by
rmlew
(Copperheads and Peaceniks beware! Sedition is a crime.)
To: sarah_f
I'd like to send him an email, or would an email thanking him for speaking the truth, get me in trouble? Could I be arrested as an accessory to hate speech? (s)
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posted on
12/14/2004 5:56:05 PM PST
by
MontanaBeth
(NEVER FORGET)
To: sarah_f
WICKED FAITH, WICKED FAITH, WICKED FAITH. :-p
To: All
I suppose the English will have to use stale crumpets and jagged tea cups to defend themselves against the jihad nightmare.
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posted on
12/14/2004 5:57:25 PM PST
by
383rr
(Those who choose security over liberty deserve neither-)
To: GaryMontana
Why is it lawful for the Islamic religion to spread its hatred (i.e. Koran states that the Arab race is superior to all other races) and it is acceptable for Mohammad and other Islamic fascists to rape young girls (as young as nine years old according to the Koran), but it is wrong to call this religion what it is -- the enemy of the human race -- the true cancer destroying the human soul! But, but, you don't understand--it's their culture. (sarcasm off)
To: dubyaismypresident
Don't be so fast to say it's just Britain -
Canada also has similar "anti-hate" (anti-free speech) laws now. There is a sizable number here in the US who would have the same here. IF we are not ever vigilant, it WILL come here too.
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posted on
12/14/2004 5:57:55 PM PST
by
TheBattman
(Islam (and liberals)- the cult of Satan)
To: LibFreeOrDie
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posted on
12/14/2004 5:58:11 PM PST
by
sarah_f
(Know Islam, Know Terror.)
To: All
Oh, I forgot to add my WICKED FAITH. Shame on me.
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posted on
12/14/2004 5:58:50 PM PST
by
383rr
(Those who choose security over liberty deserve neither-)
To: nothingnew
Keep yer powder dry folks. That's the only thing I'm not confused about.Yeah. I must not have kept mine dry, because it's starting to itch.
To: TheBattman
Don't be so fast to say it's just Britain - Canada also has similar "anti-hate" (anti-free speech) laws now. There is a sizable number here in the US who would have the same here. IF we are not ever vigilant, it WILL come here too.True it is not just Britian. And yes we have to keep it from happening here, because it will if the Left has its way
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posted on
12/14/2004 6:00:54 PM PST
by
NeoCaveman
(There is no dufu but DUFU and PJ Comix is its writer)
To: sarah_f
Amazing! & no protest from anyone in the UK.
Yet, someone could trash Christ on the BBC and no one would say boo.
Just amazing. Thank God for the First Amendment.
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posted on
12/14/2004 6:01:15 PM PST
by
rcocean
To: sarah_f
Amazing! & no protest from anyone in the UK.
Yet, someone could trash Christ on the BBC and no one would say boo.
Just amazing. Thank God for the First Amendment.
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posted on
12/14/2004 6:01:15 PM PST
by
rcocean
To: sarah_f
"British National Party leader detained [arrested] after calling Islam 'wicked faith'"
The more Islamics push for more-than-equal rights, the deeper they dig the hole.
Benjamin Franklin once said: "The sting of any criticism comes from the truth it contains."
Just like the Nazis, the Islamic extremist just can't help crowing and
alerting sane people to their end-goals.
Thank G-d.
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posted on
12/14/2004 6:05:03 PM PST
by
VOA
To: GaryMontana
If one wants to get on the race 'issue.' It is quite clear that Indo-Europeans were there around 2000 BC, it is likely much earlier than that but most of the authors I have read talk in code (ie. "It is a controversial subject but it can be said that Indo-Europeans were in the area at least 4000 years ago"). I guess you don't want Tenure wiped out by the PC police.
Anyway, the entire Muslim faith may be a throwing off of millennia old Indo-European rule as Hammurabi speaks of "dark haired, skinned and eyed people that must be dealt with very harshly and then that will not even placate them."(paraphrase) This seems to indicate that he was not Arabic.
If they had been under Indo-european heels for thousands of years then culturally and perhaps even genetically they could be the antithesis of the west.
Another interesting thing to consider is the Janissaries, which were European slaves offered to the Turks as tribune every year as infants. The Turks were very clear on the characteristics of the children and made them slave warriors.
You could also cite Bin Ladens general order that as many 'white devils' be killed as possible.
There does seem to be a real race component to this but it is not spoken of very often.
To: sarah_f
Have they nothing equivalent to the First Amendment? I have seen on TV radical Muslim Clerics calling for terrorists attacks in the streets of London and they are not arrested.
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posted on
12/14/2004 6:20:17 PM PST
by
msnimje
To: VOA
Thank G-d. What is this? I see it on FreeRepublic from time to time and do not know what it means.
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posted on
12/14/2004 6:21:45 PM PST
by
msnimje
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