Loving the BNP

I spoke to a BNP spokesman yesterday regarding an incendiary BNP- related facebook group that users have been calling for the closing of as it contravenes facebook terms of agreement. Some of their spokesmen are quite diplomatic, but not this one it turned out, but what to expect from an essentially irrational party? The spokesman said that the BNP were campaigning against an application to build a mosque in Solihull because they wanted to halt the 'Islamification of Britain'. When I pointed out that within a liberal democracy (I didn't actually say 'liberal democracy'), everyone had the right to worship how they liked, he said that he was sick of the indigenous population having their guilt complex exploited. Hmmmm.

Whether or not the BNP are no longer racist is irrelevant to the fact that they are attracting support from ordinary people who genuinely feel their culture and life is going to be eroded by an ever expanding Muslim population, which has a high birth rate and whose members often and tactlessly talk about Islam taking over the world. The spokesman yesterday seemed to genuinely believe this was a possibility. And there are other non-BNP people who seem to fear Islam in the same way, like the Bishop of Rochester for instance.

In an odd way I can understand this fear, and I think we should attempt to allay people's fears of Islamic totalitarianism and show them that it is not a religion that is spread by reproduction (no religion should be), nor one that seeks to conquer (if truth is truth, it will prevail without human agency).

So it's high time we showed the BNP some love (and you can draw the line with the downright racist if you can't stomach them), especially those who are seeking to convince the world of their conviction in an all loving Creator.