The growing menace of Islam needs to be dealt with decisively. In the UK, the mainstream political parties have yet to address it. So is the answer the British National Party (BNP), the only party to fight on an anti-Muslim platform?

Sadly, one or two commenters at this site seem to think so. Strangely enough, almost without exception, those posters who cheer for the BNP do not actually live in the UK. None has any direct experience or knowledge of the BNP, and their views are taken entirely from the party’s sanitised self-presentation on its website – I will not discredit the New English Review by linking to it; interested readers can google. The ignorance of the posters is matched only by their arrogance and presumption in telling UK citizens what is best for them. If a little learning is a dangerous thing, total ignorance is lethal.

In contrast, those of us with direct experience of the BNP, formerly the National Front, know it for what it is – a neo-Nazi white supremacist party, which does not allow non-white members and whose leader, Nick Griffin, has stated publicly that his white skin is what defines him. 

The ideology of Islam – and Islam is much more an ideology than a religion – and that of Fascism are remarkably similar. Never has this similarity been better expressed than by Ibn Warraq, whose article for this edition of New English Review should be required reading. Only one similarity, specific to Britain’s Fascist party, has been left out: taqiyya.

Many readers with knowledge of Islam will be aware of the concept of taqiyya, or lying in the furtherance of Islam. This can take various forms, from signing treaties with no intention of keeping them to selectively quoting the earlier, more peaceful verses of the Koran when speaking to Westerners. The BNP, too, are past masters at the art of taqiyya. They have re-packaged themselves, knowing that if they let the electorate know what they really stood for they would never get in. Griffin co-opted a token Sikh and Jew, in the face of considerable opposition from party members. This is in a bid to present themselves as opposed to Islam the ideology, rather than Muslims, the dark-skinned people. Yet, while no longer advocating forced repatriation of non-whites, they advocate “voluntary” repatriation, which means that a white Muslim such as Yvonne Ridley would stay, but black Christians, atheists, Hindus, Sikhs and apostates would be “encouraged” to leave.

With the BNP, as with Muslims, there is a way to test whether they have genuinely reformed or whether they are practising taqiyya. This is to ask them directly to repudiate the violent passages in the Koran, or the policies of white supremacy. It is not enough to refrain from mentioning them, or to talk about peace or inclusiveness. The violence or racism must be explicitly and unequivocally rejected. Nothing else will do.

I could be wrong, of course. Perhaps the BNP is the first Fascist party to change its spots. But I doubt it.

Islam and Nazism are cut from the same cloth. For proof, follow this link, which Paul, a regular commenter here, kindly sent in. Here’s a taster: