British National Party publishes Mohammed cartoon
The British National Party (BNP) has distributed a leaflet including one of the 12 Mohammed cartoons, originally published in Danish paper Jyllands Posten, that have caused outrage amongst Muslims worldwide. In the pamphlet the cartoon was displayed next to a photograph of Muslim demonstrators calling for violent punishment of the cartoonists who authored the images.
500 000 copies of the pamphlet have been distributed across the UK.
A spokesman for the BNP explained the thinking behind the leaflet as follows: "What the leaflet says is which do you find most offensive? The cartoon or Muslim demonstrators calling for terrorist attacks on Europe?"
Labour party chairman Ian MC Cartney has condemned the pamphlets, stating they are "straight out of the Nazi textbook." While Faiz Siddiqi, of the Muslim Action Committee, commented: "Quite clearly the BNP wants to stay in the framework of continuing to cause offence. They are not interested in dialogue, only chaos."
Nick Griffin, head of the BNP, asserts that the publication of the Mohammed cartoon is a reaction against the decision of the British press not to publish the cartoons.
It is evident, however, that the BNP's decision to publish this cartoon is not a promotion of freedom of expression and freedom of the press, the reasoning behind the reprinting of the cartoons by many newspapers. Nick Griffin is to be tried on race hate charges in October, along with other BNP activists.
For this reasoning the Editors Weblog denounces the BNP's politically manipulative decision to print the Mohammed cartoon.
Source: Times Online
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Hi,
As you know the moslims in Britian published their plans for a giant islamic centre in London that would accommodate 70,000! but our one in livevpool accommodate 3000! The massive mosque would be situated beside the olympic complex and be open in time for the prestigious 2012 olympic games. "It will be something never seen before in this country.It is a mosque for the future as part of the British land". said Abdul Khalique a senior member of Tablighi Jamaat.It will their new UK headquarter. Now the got their one in Dewsbury, Westyorkshire.
What a shame of us when they don't allow us to build a Church in Saudi Arabia!!!
We have to protect our country from the enemy of Christian. So we have to stand together and have to protest to the government so they may cancel this project for good.
Good luck to the B.N.P.
In the uk we call it freedom of expression and democracy at work. The BNP have every right to reproduce already printed cartoons alongside photos of muslim extremists calling for blood of the unbelievers. Perhaps the gutless british media should take a lesson from the British national party.
the question is and the leaflet says which do you find most offensive? The cartoon or Muslim demonstrators calling for terrorist attacks on Europe?"
i dont think that many pay attention to the BNP, and if they do theyre just too sceared to come out - which will get us no where im affraid, if u know ure right just say it!