They're at it again.
Well-established by now as the official 'anti-Muslim' Party of Britain the BNP wish us all to know that those Muslims (including the Welsh ones) - they're not us you know, they don't share our values, they hate our way of life and their insensitivity knows no limits.
Remember Luton back in March, when less than 20 utter morons, remnants of the proscribed Al-Muhajiroon group, hurled abuse at members of the Royal Anglian Regiment returning from Afghanistan? That disgraceful display has become iconic imagery of the supposed 'Muslim' attitude towards our soldiers. The plot to kidnap and behead a British soldier in Birmingham is another such example, but of course it is rarely mentioned that the intended victim was himself a Muslim. The BNP keep making reference to those events in Luton as if that repugnant behaviour was representative of Muslims in the UK. They would like us to believe that Muslims can't differentiate between the politicians who sent our troops into these disastrous wars and the soldiers themselves.
My grandfather served in the Navy in the Second World War and I have always worn my poppy in remembrance of my own family's personal sacrifices. My attitude and the attitude of those Muslims I have spoken to at length on this subject is that provided that our soldiers act honourably, treat civilians and unarmed prisoners humanely and do not descend into the kind of depravity witnessed at Abu Ghraib by the US troops, then when they return they should not be exposed to the kind of abuse they received in Luton. My personal view is these extremists should never have been allowed to protest there in the first place, the potential damage to community cohesion was obvious and indeed the Muslim community of Luton suffered a lot because of this one despicable act by 0.067% of the local Muslim population (that's assuming all those extremists were even local). If they were genuine anti-war protestors they should have been outside Downing Street or Westminster. Of course, what was hardly mentioned was that after Friday prayers hundreds of Muslim men surrounded these same yobs when the police wouldn't move them along as they set up a stall in the town.
The video is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX7Oh7YJMGo (you can fast forward to 2:13 to see the handful of extremists get surrounded by hundreds of local Muslim men who poured out of the mosque demanding that the police move them out of Luton).
Muslim communities across the UK are constantly standing up to, marginalising and disrupting the activities of these tiny fringe elements that are every bit as odious as their Far Right counterparts. Most of it goes unseen or unreported but we are as committed to challenging extremists who claim to be acting on our behalf in the same way that the mainstream society are committed to challenging the BNP, the EDL and the dross of society we call football hooligans, masquerading as 'patriots'.
So how are the BNP trying to develop the 'British Muslims hate our troops' narrative in Wales?
Hat Tip to Morgan Hen for picking this up:
http://morgan-hen.blogspot.com/2009/08/ely-bread-riots-sequel-or-is-bnp-trying.html
This is the statement on the matter by the Post Office in question:
"There is absolutely no truth in the allegation made to the British National Party that the Post Office in Wilson Road, Ely, Cardiff will not accept parcels for British troops in Afghanistan.
It should not be repeated and we reserve the right to pursue legal action against any person or body repeating the allegation and call for its removal from any website or other publication.
The Wilson Road Post Office has always accepted and continues to accept such parcels. Indeed the Wilson Road shops including the Post Office recently held a 'Heroes Collection' for British troops.
The allegation is false and malicious and related to a separate dispute with a customer. As a result that customer is not welcome at these premises but our services can be accessed by someone else on her behalf if they so wish."
Statement Ends.
Of course a party that were caught out using non-British citizens claiming to be BNP voters in recent election material would never intentionally mislead the public would they?
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Maybe the BNP or the newly-spawned organisations (that are at pains to state they have no links to the BNP) who organise the anti-Moslem rallies should change their chants from 'We Want Our Country Back' to 'We Want Our Country Back...but can we have our post office back first?'
ReplyDeleteDoesn't have quite the same ring to it though does it BWD? Last time I checked Britain was actually four countries so I think what they are really saying is 'We Want Our Empire Back'.
ReplyDeleteThis actually reminds me of a conversation I had with a doctor at an event about a year and a half ago regarding the difference between the inclusive nationalism in Wales and Scotland (embodied in the SNP and Plaid Cymru) and the racist version embodied in the BNP originating from England. Was it down to Celtic versus Anglo-Saxon genes? I joked. No he said, it was, in his opinion, more to do with Scottish and Welsh nationalism emerging as a reaction to oppression of national identity (be that, linguistic, cutural or whatever) and the English variety emerging out of loss of supremacy. I'm not sure why there is this contrasting expression of nationalism but one is clearly healthy and more likely to absorb migrant communities over time, whilst the other is definitely unhealthy and can only lead to unrest within society across the border in England - we don't want any of that nonsense exported here to Wales.