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Indian 'shines' in racist UK party EUROVISION/RASHMEE Z AHMED MAY 29, 2004 http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/708483.cms Post-election, post-Sonia’s victory, there is India Shining as the hub of 21st-century political pluralism. And here in old Blighty, a far-right party goes on television with a political broadcast that portrays us as murderous Islamophobes and one-billion little Modis. How has this happened? Let me explain. The British National Party, which believes Britain was meant by God to be a nation of the very white and very pure, has just put out a party election broadcast. The broadcast mainly features a curiously non-hirsute Indian Sikh, complete with turban, talking about the way Muslim fundamentalism broke India in two 57 years ago. The point Mr Rajinder Singh appears to make is that the BNP is quite right to have launched an election campaign based on an anti-Islam agenda. He likes the BNP, he tells millions of British couch potatoes, because they say what they really think. So what does the BNP really think? And does it matter that they’re using an Indian to make their pitch? First, a few facts. The BNP was formed out of the hell-raising National Front in the 1980s. Ten years later, the party was described as an openly Nazi outfit by the European Parliament’s Committee of Inquiry on Racism and Xenophobia. Just recently, the BNP publicly cemented fraternal ties with France’s Jean Marie le Pen, whose very own National Front puts the fear of God into French coloured immigrants. Le Pen’s party wanted a baby bonus for white French couples doing their patriotic duty by populating the Gallic homeland. The BNP openly wants to kick all coloured people out of Britain. A few months ago, an unintentionally hilarious BBC domestic radio broadcast had a reporter ringing the BNP up and asking if it were really racist. The party spokesman denied this, upon which the reporter asked if the criterion for party membership was really a white skin. The spokesman reluctantly admitted it was inclined that way. Upon which, the reporter persisted by asking if someone who was British born-and-bred, but had golden skin was permissible. The BNP was not amused. The line went dead. So, that is the nature of the BNP. Now, it’s using a Sikh to get its message out. Singh’s virtually the mascot of a party that’s running for all it is worth on the strength of the white Western world’s sheer terror of being swamped by a tide of home-grown and hand-fed Islamist fundamentalism. The broadcast is one of a series of election television appeals made by all major British political parties in the run-up to European parliament and local elections on June 10. Unlike the US, broadcasting laws do not allow British political parties to purchase television advertising. Instead, they are allocated a series of short slots if they’ve got enough horses in the race. In other words, the BNP qualified because it’s fielding more than 50 candidates. None of these candidates are of Indian origin. Courtesy:star <indiistar@yahoo.com> |
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