06 April 2012

Leicestershire councillor facing probe over message criticising Muslims

Earlier this year, Graham Partner – who quit the BNP to sit as an independent – sent out a New Year message to voters in his Coalville division.

It featured part of an article from a national newspaper which said victimhood "comes easily" to followers of Islam.

The article added: "Every terrorist atrocity, every blood- soaked massacre is justified by reference to imagined grievances. But the greatest persecutors of other faiths are Muslim, themselves.

"The response from the Western church leaders is deafening silence, afraid to accept that their ideological paradise of multi-cultural, multi-faith, left-wing society is nothing more than a fantasy." [Leicester Mercury] Read more