This weekend the far-right British National Party (BNP) will hold its annual ‘Red White and Blue’ festival in Derbyshire. The event comes soon after the BNP won two seats in the European Parliament after running an election campaign based explicitly on hostility to Muslims ....
In response to the BNP’s growing popularity, Quilliam has produced a paper detailing the BNP’s anti-Muslim rhetoric and showing how their attacks on Muslims are based on:
- A deliberate misreading of Islamic texts in order to depict Muslims as inherently violent and backward.
- A deliberate decision to see the acts of Islamist extremists as representative of all British Muslims.
- A malicious intention to portray the acts of individual Muslims (for instance, criminal acts by Muslim individuals) as symptomatic of Muslims in general.
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