Today, January 27th, is the day chosen by the United Nations to be International Holocaust Memorial Day, specifically with reference to the horrendous events of World War II. While every right-thinking person would naturally express their sorrow at the events of that time period, some Muslim leaders in Britain have cynically attempted to hijack it to try and portray Britain as “Nazi”-like - as part of their campaign to try and suppress any opposition to their unfolding plan of Islamifying this country.
In November 2007, for example, Dr Muhammad Abdul Bari, head of the Muslim Council of Britain, claimed in public that “Britain was becoming like Nazi Germany” saying that people’s minds are being “poisoned as they were in the Thirties”.
(Bari also called for Britain to adopt Islamic customs like arranged marriage and to ban the drinking of alcohol in public places, but that’s another story.)
What made the assertion even more incredible is that the Muslim Council of Britain, which says it represents mainstream Muslims and has long had the ear of Government, has been engaged in a long-standing row about its decision to boycott Holocaust Memorial Day.
This year, a spokesman for a group going by the name of the, ‘Ahmadiyya Muslim Association of Devon & Cornwall, Fareed Ahmad, in a letter published in a Southwest regional newspaper (here) has aligned himself to this train of thought, and has sought to lecture Britons about the meaning of International Holocaust Memorial Day. Ahmad’s letter says, inter alia, that “(I)ndeed, these tragedies are the tip of the iceberg, for what we see when such violence erupts so dramatically is the abysmal failure of individuals to conquer their basest form of self - described in Islam as the ‘self that incites to evil’.
This trend of trying to assert that Britain is somehow “Nazi” because patriotic Britons do not want to see their country turned into an Islamic state, is growing, and needs to exposed for what it is: rank opportunism.
The history of Islam is replete with holocausts of its own:
- The genocide of 1.5 Million Armenian Christians is today denied by many Muslims, most notably in Turkey;
- The Bulgarian Massacres during the time of the Ottoman Empire;
- The Muslim Siege of Constantinople;
- The Muslim attack on Vienna;
- The Muslim invasion of Spain;
- The Muslim attack on Otranto in Italy and the “Valley of the Martyrs” (where in 1480, the city was sacked by an invading Muslim army, and 12,000 men who refused to convert to Islam were executed, including Bishop Stephen Pendinelli, who was sawn to death); and many more.
The accusation of Britain being ‘Nazi’ - as coming from Islamists - is even more hypocritical when it is considered that the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Muhammed Amin al-Husseini, was a close ally of the Nazi regime in Germany, where the SS helped finance al-Husseini’s efforts in the 1936-39 revolt in Palestine. Adolf Eichmann actually visited Palestine and met with al-Husseini at that time and subsequently maintained regular contact with him later in Berlin (images below, Al-Husseini with Hitler, 1942, and reviewing SS Muslim recruits of the Handschar Division).
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In 1940, al-Husseini requested the Axis powers to acknowledge the Arab right: “.. to settle the question of Jewish elements in Palestine and other Arab countries in accordance with the national and racial interests of the Arabs and along the lines similar to those used to solve the Jewish question in Germany and Italy.” While in Baghdad, Syria al-Husseini aided the pro-Nazi revolt of 1941. He then spent the rest of World War II as Hitler’s special guest in Berlin,We will recall the Pejani Plan for genocide in Bosnia and the subsequent extermination of 200,000 Orthodox Christian Serbs, of the SS Skenderbey Division of Nazi Muslims, and of the ‘Islamische Zentralinstitut’.And in terms of today’s events, everyone has noticed the absence of condemnation from leading Islamists in Britain of groups such as Hizb-ut-Tahrir (or of the genocidal call to kill Jews “wherever you find them”) or of the politics and actions of Hezbollah (we wonder if the Home Office/Ministry of Justice still allows Hizb-ut-Tahrir members on its staff).
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We must take special alarm at the threats now being directed against us Britons of a “real holocaust” (picture above), and of the death threats as a result of perceived “insults to Islam.”As British nationalists, we are well aware of the dangers of extremism of any sort. It is, for example, an uncomfortable truth for many to hear that the extremist Zionists in Palestine during World War II, actually offered to enter the war against Britain on the side of the Nazis, if that government would guarantee independence for a Jewish state.For these reasons, the BNP opposes all totalitarianisms, be they extreme left or right, and rather endorses the traditional British political system, of open discussion, the democratic process and the peaceful resolution of disputes.Our history as an island people has been bedeviled by the import of beliefs and values that are totally foreign to our customs and traditions - and to which we are expected to meekly submit. We reject any attempts to destroy our right of self-determination.
The British people will not be lectured to by anyone - especially not self-appointed representatives of a group which has a long history for which they themselves need to address - and when we as a nation, have sacrificed so much in the past to fight totalitarianism.
We stand unequivocally for a Britain free of outside influences, a truly free and democratic British state, populated by Britons. No more, no less - the most moderate claim any nation can make for itself.
* See also BNP chairman Nick Griffin’s article on anti-Semitism here.