http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=58334 BNP head called Islam a 'wicked, and vicious faith' British National Party (BNP) leader Nick Griffin told supporters Islam was a "wicked, vicious faith" that was turning the country into "a multi-racial hell-hole," a court heard on Friday. In a 2004 speech in Keighley, West Yorkshire -- being secretly filmed by the BBC -- he urged a crowd to vote for his far-right party to help stop what he described as a campaign by Asian Muslims to take over the country. The 46-year-old BNP chairman and fellow activist Mark Collett, 26, are charged with using words or behavior intended to incite racial hatred. Both deny the charges. Griffin, a Cambridge University graduate from mid-Wales and Collett, from Leicestershire, were charged in April 2005 after the BBC screened its covertly filmed documentary "The Secret Agent" in July 2004. Prosecutor Rodney Jameson showed the jury at Leeds Crown Court tapes from the prgram of speeches made by the two men at a series of meetings in West Yorkshire. Referring to Islam, Griffin said: "This wicked, vicious faith has expanded from a handful of cranky lunatics about 1,300 years ago, to it now sweeping country after country before it, all over the world." The speeches also included allegations of violence and rape by Asian Muslims against whites. Griffin said Muslim community leaders failed to stop it because "it is part of a plan to conquer the world" and that they would take over the whole of the UK "as the last whites try and find their way to the sea." At another meeting, Collett accused Asians of "planned aggression against white British people". "They hate us and are trying to wipe us out," he said, calling them "cockroaches". Jameson said Griffin and Collett repeatedly aimed to encourage fear and resentment of Asian people, creating a nightmare vision of crimes against whites. The trial was adjourned till Monday. The BNP, which took over as Britain's most prominent far-right party after breaking from the National Front in 1982, has won 54 local authority seats, mainly in poorer areas with large multi-ethnic populations. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
