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Monday, 21 January 2008
BNP - have they changed?
 Robert Spencer of Jihadwatch recently said, on the subject of the BNP:-
I think that their race-based approach is wrong in a number of ways.
It's the wrong way to fight the global jihad. The jihad is not a race, Islam is not a race, Muslims are not all of one race. The issues between the Islamic world and non-Muslims are not racial. They are about religious supremacism. Bringing in race just confuses the issue, and allows jihadists and their de facto allies among the Eurabian elites to claim that this whole thing is about racism.
To form one group for indigenous Britons and invite people of other ethnicities to form other similar groups reduces virtually every issue to the one non-negotiable issue of race and ethnicity, discourages cooperation, and thus encourages Balkanization, works against the idea of representative government, and obscures the common values of Judeo-Christian civilization that are shared by people of many races and ethnicities.
Many, many people have written here, and will no doubt write again in response to this post, that the BNP is the only party in Britain that is doing anything to resist Islamization, and thus deserves the support of all those who believe there is something worth defending in Western non-Muslim civilization. I don't think that is any sounder an argument than the claim that we must support Hizballah because it builds schools and runs charities when not lobbing rockets at Israeli civilians.
The anti-jihad movement, if it is to become mainstream in Europe or the U.S., must articulate a positive vision of defense for the human rights of all people against the ways in which those human rights are contravened under Sharia, and avoid being diverted into side issues and non-issues, or formulating the problem incorrectly.
I also disavow all race-based approaches to the jihad threat,
I believe that his observations are correct.
27 years ago I bought my first house in Dagenham where the BNP presence is very strong. I still have connections in the area and I was there today. The BNP London Mayor leaflet was delivered, and with it the Barking and Dagenham Patriot.
To digress slightly the background to the history of the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham is still of some relevance. Barking Abbey was one of the oldest and richest in England. Its abbesses were from the ranks of Saxon royalty and also included Adela a Becket, St Thomas a Becket’s sister. It was a port. Captain James Cook was stationed there at the time of his marriage and the Small Blue Fleet fished out of Barking until they moved to Fleetwood in the early 20th century as the industry declined. The main town is Victorian. I know people whose families have lived in Barking for generations who regard themselves as Essex people.
Dagenham was one of the less prestigious possessions of the Abbey and remained a small quiet village until the mid 1930s when the Ford Works was built on the marshes and the Becontree estate was built to house the workers. At the time they were the largest industrial complex and the largest public housing estate in Western Europe. The development attracted people from all over the UK but mostly they were people rehoused from London’s east End. They regarded themselves as Londoners.
The two separate and different boroughs were merged in 1965 when all the London Boroughs and some from Essex, Middlesex and Kent were “reorganised” into the GLC.
During the 1960s immigrants settled in Barking, some black, some from the Indian sub continent many of whom were Muslim. A Mosque was built. Dagenham remained white working class until about 5 years ago when a large number of black people moved into the area prompting renewed BNP activity about which I wrote in April 2006.
The black families now living in Dagenham are Christians. One of my old neighbours remarked on the number of new churches springing up. The famous Princess Bowl is now the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Church. That is an African Church but there are West Indian worshippers also. Bowling has moved to the Vue complex in Goresbrook Road. Not all of them are new immigrants either. Many are second or third generation from Hackney, displaced by developments to build the Olympic site.
The BNP have some appealing policies in their London Mayor manifesto. The least attractive is the candidate himself but I won’t go into that. I quite like what I hear of the work done in LBBD to Goresbrook Park and Upney Hospital. Both U2’s The Edge and my god daughter were born there.
Further afield I agree with scrapping the congestion charge and lobbying to reduce the cost of the Olympics.
Generally, as I have said before, Nick Griffiths the party leader has read Bat Ye'or and understands the threat that is dhimmitude.
I won’t show you all the London Mayor booklet here as the scanned images are too big, but just the front of the Barking and Dagenham Patriot. They just can’t help themselves. It’s ingrained.
As for their claim that 2 years ago Margaret Hodge said she didn't need the "white working class vote" as you will see from my post of April 2006 her concerns were quite the opposite. Posted on 01/21/2008 12:35 PM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
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