New Report on the BNP Released
Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 10:02:01 am
At Harry’s Place, Edmund Standing has a post about the release of his new report for the Center for Social Cohesion, on the white supremacist British National Party: The BNP and the Online Fascist Network.
The report makes it very clear that recent efforts by the BNP to appear as if they’ve moderated their views are nothing but a sham. Some European fascist groups (e.g., the Belgian Vlaams Belang) are better at fooling people with a moderate facade, but the BNP has too many unreconstructed Neanderthals in high places who just can’t help revealing their sick inner selves — for example, their leader and newly elected Member of European Parliament, Nick Griffin, who says the EU should start sinking immigrants’ boats, and compares Islam to “a cancer requiring global chemotherapy.”
This investigation into the online activities of BNP members and activists reveals that the racial ideology of the BNP has not changed from the early days in which the founder John Tyndall was party leader, when open expressions of Nazism were tolerated in the party.
The report has found that a significant number of BNP members and online grass-roots activists displayed significant ideological affinity with key tenets of the neo-Nazi ideology, including: support for violence; antisemitism and an admiration of the Third Reich; extreme racist views; and Holocaust denial.
Support for violence:
[Item List]Antisemitism and an admiration of the Third Reich:
[Item List]Extreme racist views:
[Item List]Holocaust denial:
The BNP website promotes books by neo-Nazi publishing houses which are dedicated to rehabilitating Nazism and denying the Holocaust.