BNP's Griffin: Islam is a cancer

As the BNP struggles for right-wing support in the European Parliament, leader Nick Griffin tells Cathy Newman he believes there is "no place in Europe for Islam".

The BNP leader Nick Griffin has described Islam as a cancer that should be removed from Europe by "chemotherapy".

In an interview with Channel 4 News, Mr Griffin, who has just been elected to the European Parliament, said there was "no place in Europe for Islam".

He added: "Western values, freedom of speech, democracy and rights for women are incompatible with Islam, which is a cancer eating away at our freedoms and our democracy and rights for our women and something needs to be done about it".

The BNP leader said he agreed with a candidate for the Flemish far right party, Vlaams Belang, who had declared: "We urgently need global chemotherapy against Islam to save civilisation."

The remarks will fuel controversy over the BNPs success at the European elections last month. The partys two winning candidates - Nick Griffin and Andrew Brons - take up their seats in the European Parliament next week.

Mr Griffin has been holding talks with other far right parties in Europe such as Vlaams Belang and Jobbik, from Hungary.

The BNP had hoped to team up formally with a range of European rightwingers, giving them access to up to €1m of public money to spend on staff and offices. However, those talks have ended in failure.


BNP election hopes marred by dodgy fascist pals of leader Nick Griffin

Convicted criminals, Nazi skinheads, violent thugs... not exactly the type of people you'd want to be pals with.

But this motley crew of racists and fascists are Nick Griffin's closest European buddies.

The BNP leader is trying his best to project the image of a respectable, welldressed politician in the run-up to the European elections on Thursday.

And he knows that, if people find out who he likes to hang out with, his chances will be ruined.

Here we expose the truth about the BNP's European friends...

AUSTRIA

Andreas Molzer - once booted out of Austria's far-right Freedom Party (FPO) for being too extreme - is one of Griffin's closest European allies.

The Austrian MEP runs a newspaper, renowned for spouting racist, xenophonic and anti-Semitic views.

The rag - Zur Zeit - has even questioned accepted accounts of the Holocaust and recently featured a fawning interview with Griffin.

Molzer, 57, who is married with five children, was expelled from the FPO in 2005 after he accused it of being too soft on immigration.

He was only let back in last year when fellow hard-liner Heinz-Christian Strache, 50, took over the leadership.

Strache, 50, has demanded the repeal of Austrian laws banning the swastika and once branded women wearing Islamic dress as "female ninjas".

ITALY

Italian Mep Roberto Fiore is leader of the neo-fascist Forza Nuova party, which has campaigned for the expulsion of an estimated 150,000 Roma gipsies from Italy.

He has been a political mentor, financial supporter and close friend of BNP leader Griffin since 1980, when he moved to Britain in the wake of the fascist Bologna railway station bombing which killed 85 people, including two British tourists.

While here, he helped Griffin - who hadn't yet joined the BNP - set up his Political Soldiers group after it split from the National Front.

Fiore was convicted in Italy in his absence in 1985 as a result of his involvement in the terrorist Armed Revolutionary Nuclei, whose members had taken part in the Bologna terrorist outrage. His nineyear prison sentence was later reduced to five and a half on appeal.

HUNGARY

Zoltan Fuzessy is vice president of Hungary's ultra right-wing Jobbik party - but lives in the UK and has fostered close links with the BNP.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/05/30/fascist-friends-of-mr-gri...

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[nuketsar]

I agree with BNP. Give me my country back.

[RacistScumstersDie]

@nuketsar It never was your country from the start you Nazi turd! lol

[Byron10301]

SINCE WHEN THE FUCK, ARE MUSLIMS A RACE? where did you people learn English? CONSULT A FUCKING DICTIONARY for the definition of RACE ... not to mention, Islam is not a religion either, it is a political ideology and a political ideology ONLY

[MomsScoobySnacks]

IT IS NOT FAIR THAT THIS GUY GETS FREE MONEY INDIRECTLY FROM US TAVPAYERS THRU BEING A POLITICIAN... HE IS A FUCKING JOKE! HE IS NEVER GOING TO BE ABLE TO DO THE STUFF HE IS TALKING CRAP AND WASTING HIS TIME IN BRUSSELS DOING! WASTEMAN.. WASTING OUR MONEY AND MAKING OUR COUNTRY A JOKE!!!

[RacistScumstersDie]

@scotland1989able You need to learn the religion before making any comments. Your comment is stupid this is why I have removed it.

[ISHYB6]

Islam has most respect for women. It was only 400 years ago when you could sell your women in England. Don't talk shit do your Reserch

[akuaaron]

@Byron10301 fucking ERRADICATE ISLAM! and then BAN it! and never let the filth be spoken,preached or taught in the western world! and keep it the fuck out of our schools!!

[ManInControI]

@Kazymaz Yes

[captain2ahab]

even if you don't have any experiences in serious politics you can rise today in europe: just

[TaAncel]

@padraigomairtin But up 297% in general.

[imyerbuddy]

@Byron10301

Noun

a group of people sharing the same culture, history, language, etc.; an ethnic group : we Scots were a bloodthirsty race then.

[indyannabones]

i think we should just blow the whole world up kill all whites blacks indians muslims china jew any living thing possible and start again we are killing this planet day by day and all people care about is money and whos got the better colour kill all babies humans monkeys dogs cats anything witha slight pulse we are our own worst eniemies so lets just end it now and let some one else have a go , thumbs up if if you agree and if you dont see you on the other side !!!

[Kazymaz]

@nuketsar

iam brown can i join BNP

my dad frm england and me uncle is a skin ???