“Well done David Whittern of Knowle for revealing the true and shocking realities of what may happen to our green and pleasant land if people and the Government just passively sit back and allow our Christian heritage to ebb away with the influx of muslims all because they pride themselves on being "POLITICALLY CORRECT". What evil prevails when good men do nothing.”

“Vote BNP and put an end to all this multicultural, nation-destroying nonsense!”

“What a shame we can't have an article about wanting to integrate into British society and culture, rather than an article which supports the adaptation of British society to fit in with the culture of immigrant arrivals. No wonder so many native Brits continue to become increasingly angry about the state of our nation and find themselves supporting the BNP as the only option to give hope that the destruction of the very fabric of our British culture can be reversed.
If you want sharia law - go live in Saudi!”

“Its the word "law" you see. Legally binding. It's not just a code of conduct but a law.
You know how the argument goes as well as I do.
Where there is a contradiction between two laws some pious zealot will challenge mans law as being subservient to his gods law and hey presto! we are all, not just Muslims, on the slippery slope.”

“Farooq,

I really appreciate your thoughts; it must be very frustrating and hurtful to read some of the comments posted on this site. I would like to add a few too. Firstly it is just not widely understood how much diversity there is within Islam and this reflects how Sharia is understood, interpreted and applied. For example in Indonesia, the most populous Muslim nation on earth some provinces have recently adopted Sharia law enforced by a draconian ¿Sharia police force¿ who literally force men to attend Friday prayers while in a neighbouring province a form of Islam is synchronised with local pre Islamic beliefs. At the moment the two co-exist peacefully.

I would however take issue with your comment about Sharia only being for Muslims, in Pakistan for instance the notorious blasphemy law penal code 295 (c) has been widely applied to minorities rarely if ever supported by any objective evidence. Politicians are terrified of repealing this law for fear of appearing ¿less Islamic¿ than their rivals. I have campaigned for years for the Christian church where its persecuted (an untold story in itself). Sadly the worst examples of institutalised persecution are found mainly in the Middle East and South Asia. As a general principle the greater the role sharia plays in a nation¿s legislature the worse off faith minorities tend to be in relation to most social indicators. I find it frustrating that most Muslims seem to have nothing to say about this. Perhaps its fear. When Tariq Ramadan an eminent European based Islamic scholar called for the suspension of the Hudood ordinances he was immediately condemned and subject to numerous death threats from his co-religionists. I¿m not writing these things to point score, the Christian church has many faults and failings, I just want to encourage an honest appraisal of the realities related to a static theology that struggles to ask tough contemporary questions.

To finish on a positive note a Muslim friend of mine who has lived here most of his life and done pretty well for himself was back in his home village in Pakistan and observed a Christian being abused by a Muslim (because of his faith) my friend heroically challenged him about his behaviour. To me, although a small gesture, was a sign of hope for genuine tolerance and respect.”

“The comment by Farooq that Sharia law only would apply to Muslims may be true to start with. But as in northern Nigeria it would gradually be applied to Christians.Several years ago 12 of the northern states adopted Sharia law saying it would only apply to muslims,but now it applies to Christians. The full veil has to be worn by Christian women otherwise they are abused in the streets. Also in recent court cases a female or Christians testimony is only worth half a Muslims evidence..

In a new wave of violence in Northern Nigeria two Christian ministers were beheaded as they refused to convert to Islam.
This started on 26th July 2009.Twelve churches were burnt down,five police officers and twelve other Christians have been confirmed dead. One if the ministers George Orjih is reported to have said "tell my brothers that i died well,and am living in Christ". The other minister was Sabo Yakubu a father of seven he was hacked to death with a machete.The attackers released some kidnap victims.

On August 1st 2009 a mob of more than 800 Muslims raided a Christian settlement in the town of Gojra,Pakistan .50 houses were burnt down and 7 members of one family burnt to death.

In another village called Korian 50 homes were destroyed because of false rumours spread that a Qur'an had been burnt during a Christian wedding ceremony.

Two days before in another village 117 Christian homes were burnt.water pumps sabotaged and electricity supplies cut off. Acid was also thrown at some `christian women and children as they fled !3 were scarred by it. This was because of a false charge of blasphemy against the local Christians

Christians suffer in Muslim majority countries.”

“Mike & Gerry, the point you're missing is that Islam is not a race, Muslims are not a race. They are followers of a religion, which is more prevalent in some countires than others.
If a white British born Muslim had shouted at the soldiers parade (and there ARE plenty now) Would that confuse the issue?”

“Mike Bristol, well put totaly agree with you.”

“It may well help for you to all know what goes through the average English man's mind who may vote BNP.

Polictical correctness drives most mad and some use it to an advantage,PC Madness is no friend to race and communty realtions as is properly the thing that has caused most of the damage and is definatley no friend to ethnic groups.

Immigration has gone to far. Yes in fairness it's nice to have some diversity, but its gone to far. No Muslim country would allow this to happen. This is a major player in the race row etc.

Militant Muslims shouting death to English soldiers and trying to make this a muslim state will wind most Mr and Mrs avearage up, these people are no friends of muslims and communities.

Police forces using postive discrimation for recruitment. Deadly. Port should have been sacked.

Respect for diversity is a good thing in fairness, however most white English felt that it was one way traffic, bias, meaning no respect for our diversity was ever shown and we have to tred on egg shells. Us English have never liked unfairness and this has cased much harm to people living in peace and friendship together.

Illegal immigants and the Governments failings to deal with them, especally when they commit crime or kill, bound to wind a nation up.

Attitudes of certain races,I mean this with honesty, some young black males have a major chip on their shoulder and playing the race card and accusing people of being racist every time they have a debate is annoying and winds most people up.

In fariness who ever made up the PC code of conduct is an enemy of every decent human being out there and people who use it to their advantage are also no friends of the race or culture.

The biggest problem is this stupid Labour govenment, get rid of them and we may have some hope.

Farroq you have a good opportunity to help people on both sides, however I have found that attack will make people defensive. Show some understanding where a great deal of white English find themselves at this time in history.”

“Mike,
I agree. 100% .

Running down the BNP and quoting the old Labour mantras about Multiculturalism hasn't worked. It isn't working and it will never work.


Farooq, as you read in the survey people think that on some issues the BNP 'has a point'


You've got a golden opportunity with your column to address that point, not sweep it under the carpet with 1990s style WW2 rhetoric.


You need to start forming a genuinely moderate middle ground that accepts these 'points' in the same way that the now famous Black guy in the QT audience did. In the same way that any minority person that I speak to who's over 50 does.

Identity politics has done your community a grave disservice. The result is the call for White identity politics that currently sat in an empty forum owned by extreme National Socialists.


In a recent poll it showed that 50% of the BNP voters were what we'd call racist. 50% were non-racist, but were fed up with the discriminatory political landscape. These people only want what anybody would want at any point in time. These people refuse the balkanisation of the Midlands just as your Father would refuse the balkanisation of his ancestral lands.


Do the right thing and steal the argument back from the extremists.. Do anything, but don't think that your current methods are doing ANYTHING but passing votes to the extremists.”