Post by IslamHayati on Apr 7, 2005 18:11:56 GMT -5
Guess who prints the BNP's 'anti-Muslim' newspaper ... a firm owned bySAUDIS!!
27-03-2005
news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&xml=/news/2005/03/27/nbnp27.xml
By Daniel Foggo and Peter Zimonjic
The Sunday Telegraph:
The far right British National Party, whose leader Nick Griffin was recently arrested on suspicion of inciting racial hatred after he denounced Islam as a "wicked, vicious faith", is secretly using an Arab-owned company to print its monthly newspaper, The Telegraph can reveal.
The Voice of Freedom, the BNP's official publication, which regularly describes Islam as a "dangerous" religion, is published at a printing works in Essex owned by a company in Saudi Arabia and staffed almost entirely by Muslims.
The disclosure, following a Telegraph investigation, will be seen by many as evidence of the BNP's hypocrisy and will stun even its own members.
An undercover reporter, posing as a potential client, visited the print works of the Saudi company, Satellite Graphics Ltd, in Barking, Essex, where staff confirmed that it prints The Voice of Freedom.
At a two-storey warehouse on an industrial estate, a man who identified himself as one of the managers led our reporter to a sales meeting room, where a long table was covered in neatly displayed Arabic, Muslim and Asian newspapers.
He said: "We do print The Voice of Freedom, they run 16 pages. Most of the publications we do are Asian or Arabic but we can do anything for you."
The newspapers on display at the plant included The Sikh Times, The Daily Nation, a daily Urdu newspaper, and Asharq Al-Awsat, a London-based Arabic newspaper.
The red, white and blue colours of the BNP's logo stood out among the Muslim and Arabic newspapers on display in the room.
The BNP's stance on Islam is unequivocally hostile. Mr Griffin was secretly filmed by the BBC last year telling a crowd that Islam was a "wicked, vicious faith that has expanded through a handful of cranky lunatics about 1,300 years ago until it is now sweeping country after country". Mr Griffin urged the crowd: "You've got to stand up and do something for the British National Party because otherwise they [Muslims] will do for someone in your family. That is the truth."
On the BNP website, Islam and Muslims are regularly attacked. Mr Griffin is quoted in an article by the BNP news team, dated March 1, as saying: "There is nothing irrational about fearing Islam. It's a menace to all we in the West hold dear, and the time when anyone can pretend otherwise is almost at an end."
Mr Griffin, a one-time member of the National Front, has also been caught on film telling supporters that British Muslims were perpetuating a "massive rape wave" designed to spread Islam across the West by impregnating white girls.
After the footage was screened by the BBC as part of an undercover exposé on the BNP, Mr Griffin was arrested by West Yorkshire police at his home in Wales on December 14, 2004. Another 14 members of the BNP were also arrested.
Satellite Graphics is a subsidiary of Asharq Al-Awsat Ltd, which is listed at Companies House as a "newspaper printers and publishers" based at Arab Press House, High Holborn, London.
The publishing house specialises in printing Arab, Muslim and Asian newspapers in Britain and throughout the Middle East. Its parent company is the Saudi Research and Publishing Company, incorporated in Saudi Arabia, according to Companies House.
Saudi Arabia was founded on Wahabi Islam, a puritanical Sunni ideology whose followers have proved key recruits for Osama bin Laden.
The kingdom is ruled by the Saudi royal family and protest and political parties are banned, as are other religions and places of worship.
As the official mouthpiece of the BNP, The Voice of Freedom regularly runs diatribes against Muslims and Islam. Martin Wingfield, the editor, is a former chairman of the National Front who has served three months in prison for incitement to racial hatred. The first three pages of the January edition are dedicated to the BNP's campaign to "stop the growth of Islam in Britain". A front-page headline reads: "Why we must be aware of Islam". Inside there are several articles warning about what the party calls the "islamifaction" of British justice, education and government.
One article criticised the Conservative Party for joining Labour's "unholy scramble for the Muslim votes at the next general election".
The newspaper, which is understood to have been printed by the Arab-owned firm since January, has a circulation of about 65,000.
The BNP has tried to gain mainstream political support by claiming to be a reformist rather than a racist political party. However, the bragging by BNP members that were caught by the BBC about putting faeces through Asian letterboxes and fantasising about shooting "Pakis" with "about a million bullets" as they left a Mosque have exposed the party's true motives.
Mr Griffin remains on police bail. Of the remaining 14 BNP members who were arrested, only three have been formally charged.
Those told they will not be charged include former Bradford council BNP candidate Stewart Williams, who was caught on film saying he wanted to blow up the city's mosques with a rocket-launcher and machine-gun worshippers, and party colleague Dave Midgley, who boasted he had squirted dog faeces through the letter box of an Asian takeaway. After the film was broadcast the BNP said it expelled Mr Midgley and Mr Williams has been disciplined by an internal tribunal.
A BNP spokesman said: "If you would like to go and get a wholly owned British firm that would print our newspaper, fair enough. Islam is not compatible with Western Christian values in Britain but it is not their printing works that are dangerous to our way of life, it is the other things they do."
27-03-2005
news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&xml=/news/2005/03/27/nbnp27.xml
By Daniel Foggo and Peter Zimonjic
The Sunday Telegraph:
The far right British National Party, whose leader Nick Griffin was recently arrested on suspicion of inciting racial hatred after he denounced Islam as a "wicked, vicious faith", is secretly using an Arab-owned company to print its monthly newspaper, The Telegraph can reveal.
The Voice of Freedom, the BNP's official publication, which regularly describes Islam as a "dangerous" religion, is published at a printing works in Essex owned by a company in Saudi Arabia and staffed almost entirely by Muslims.
The disclosure, following a Telegraph investigation, will be seen by many as evidence of the BNP's hypocrisy and will stun even its own members.
An undercover reporter, posing as a potential client, visited the print works of the Saudi company, Satellite Graphics Ltd, in Barking, Essex, where staff confirmed that it prints The Voice of Freedom.
At a two-storey warehouse on an industrial estate, a man who identified himself as one of the managers led our reporter to a sales meeting room, where a long table was covered in neatly displayed Arabic, Muslim and Asian newspapers.
He said: "We do print The Voice of Freedom, they run 16 pages. Most of the publications we do are Asian or Arabic but we can do anything for you."
The newspapers on display at the plant included The Sikh Times, The Daily Nation, a daily Urdu newspaper, and Asharq Al-Awsat, a London-based Arabic newspaper.
The red, white and blue colours of the BNP's logo stood out among the Muslim and Arabic newspapers on display in the room.
The BNP's stance on Islam is unequivocally hostile. Mr Griffin was secretly filmed by the BBC last year telling a crowd that Islam was a "wicked, vicious faith that has expanded through a handful of cranky lunatics about 1,300 years ago until it is now sweeping country after country". Mr Griffin urged the crowd: "You've got to stand up and do something for the British National Party because otherwise they [Muslims] will do for someone in your family. That is the truth."
On the BNP website, Islam and Muslims are regularly attacked. Mr Griffin is quoted in an article by the BNP news team, dated March 1, as saying: "There is nothing irrational about fearing Islam. It's a menace to all we in the West hold dear, and the time when anyone can pretend otherwise is almost at an end."
Mr Griffin, a one-time member of the National Front, has also been caught on film telling supporters that British Muslims were perpetuating a "massive rape wave" designed to spread Islam across the West by impregnating white girls.
After the footage was screened by the BBC as part of an undercover exposé on the BNP, Mr Griffin was arrested by West Yorkshire police at his home in Wales on December 14, 2004. Another 14 members of the BNP were also arrested.
Satellite Graphics is a subsidiary of Asharq Al-Awsat Ltd, which is listed at Companies House as a "newspaper printers and publishers" based at Arab Press House, High Holborn, London.
The publishing house specialises in printing Arab, Muslim and Asian newspapers in Britain and throughout the Middle East. Its parent company is the Saudi Research and Publishing Company, incorporated in Saudi Arabia, according to Companies House.
Saudi Arabia was founded on Wahabi Islam, a puritanical Sunni ideology whose followers have proved key recruits for Osama bin Laden.
The kingdom is ruled by the Saudi royal family and protest and political parties are banned, as are other religions and places of worship.
As the official mouthpiece of the BNP, The Voice of Freedom regularly runs diatribes against Muslims and Islam. Martin Wingfield, the editor, is a former chairman of the National Front who has served three months in prison for incitement to racial hatred. The first three pages of the January edition are dedicated to the BNP's campaign to "stop the growth of Islam in Britain". A front-page headline reads: "Why we must be aware of Islam". Inside there are several articles warning about what the party calls the "islamifaction" of British justice, education and government.
One article criticised the Conservative Party for joining Labour's "unholy scramble for the Muslim votes at the next general election".
The newspaper, which is understood to have been printed by the Arab-owned firm since January, has a circulation of about 65,000.
The BNP has tried to gain mainstream political support by claiming to be a reformist rather than a racist political party. However, the bragging by BNP members that were caught by the BBC about putting faeces through Asian letterboxes and fantasising about shooting "Pakis" with "about a million bullets" as they left a Mosque have exposed the party's true motives.
Mr Griffin remains on police bail. Of the remaining 14 BNP members who were arrested, only three have been formally charged.
Those told they will not be charged include former Bradford council BNP candidate Stewart Williams, who was caught on film saying he wanted to blow up the city's mosques with a rocket-launcher and machine-gun worshippers, and party colleague Dave Midgley, who boasted he had squirted dog faeces through the letter box of an Asian takeaway. After the film was broadcast the BNP said it expelled Mr Midgley and Mr Williams has been disciplined by an internal tribunal.
A BNP spokesman said: "If you would like to go and get a wholly owned British firm that would print our newspaper, fair enough. Islam is not compatible with Western Christian values in Britain but it is not their printing works that are dangerous to our way of life, it is the other things they do."