Rajinder Singh says he supports far-right party's anti-Islam stance
A Sikh man who has campaigned for the BNP in support of its anti-Islam stance has been put forward to be the party's first non-white member.
Rajinder Singh, who is in his late 70s, has twice lent support to Nick Griffin during the British National party leader's court appearances and appeared in an election broadcast for the party in 2005. There have been suggestions that he could stand as a BNP candidate at next year's general election.
Singh, who came to Britain in 1967, used to pen a regular column for the party's Freedom newspaper and has spoken at BNP meetings where he has been vehement in his criticism of Muslims, talking about his experiences at the partition of India in 1947. He was born in Lahore, which became part of Pakistan after partition, and blames Muslims for the death of his father during the bloody split of India.
Martin Wingfield, the communications officer for the party's two MEPs and the its prospective parliamentary candidate for Workington, wrote on his blog in support of admitting non-whites, and Singh in particular. "I say adapt and survive and give the brave and loyal Rajinder Singh the honour of becoming the first ethnic minority member of the BNP," wrote Wingfield.
Singh, a former teacher from Wellingborough in Northamptonshire, said he would be "honoured" to become a full member of the BNP.
"I got in touch with the BNP on certain core policies that appeal to me," he told the Independent. "I also admire them since they are on their own patch and do not wish to let anyone else oust them from the land of their ancestors."
In 2001, after the September 11 attacks on the US, he said he wanted to set up an Asian Friends of the BNP group to act as a supporting body and conduit for funds for people sympathetic to the party's anti-Islamic stance.
A BNP spokesman said he would be "quite happy" to have Singh as a member, adding that the retired teacher recognised that he was a "guest of ours". "We have always maintained it's not really about skin colour, it's about ethnicity," he said. He emphasised that the party's membership list, suspended following last month's court order, remained closed for the time being.
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What a joker.
I was looking at myself talking to myself and I realized this conversation...I was having with myself looking at myself was a conversation with myself that I needed to have with myself.
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format_quote Originally Posted by Rabi'ya
next you'll be telling me that they are not a racist party!
lol.. if such is the case, I wonder how else I should I understand this line?
"We have always maintained it's not really about skin colour, it's about ethnicity," he said
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I think it is imperative they let that fellow in, it might actually highlight what they truly stand for.. overt hatred toward Muslims, no more no less!
Text without context is pretext If your opponent is of choleric temperament, seek to irritate him
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I find this rather hilarious don't you? I mean who started the partition? HELLO, the British. Who was the cause of the bloodshed? HELLO, colonization of the British.
Plus I'm sure a Muslim died by a Sikh? I mean they were turned against each other...
And yes as far as I'm concerned, in general both get along well. I too have a Sikh friend.
Last edited by Nσσя'υℓ Jαииαн; 11-20-2009 at 10:53 PM.
*Without Allah, without Islam, life would be meaningless. If I've ever learned patience, it's because of this. Alhamdulillah...*
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This is actually hilarious. This is the equivalent of a Jew joining the Nazis, or Osama bin Laden becoming an ordained bishop in the Roman Catholic Church.
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format_quote Originally Posted by Supreme
This is actually hilarious. This is the equivalent of a Jew joining the Nazis, or Osama bin Laden becoming an ordained bishop in the Roman Catholic Church.
Lol. Good one. Or like Bush and Cheney joining the anti-war coalition.
Someone said to the Prophet, "Pray to God against the idolaters and curse them." The Prophet replied, "I have been sent to show mercy and have not been sent to curse." (Muslim)
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If they ever came to power, he'd very much be amongst the first batch of people to be rounded up and deported. He probably couldn't find any other forum from which to vent his vile anti-Islamic vitriol, so he resorted to a party of likeminded bigots.
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Greetings,
Amazing story. It's always interesting hearing someone try to defend preposterous, self-conflicting views, so I'm sure I'd enjoy having a chat with Mr. Singh. Still, I can't see how the BNP think having him on their side will help their chances with the British public.
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