BNP's "Racist Leaflet"

Twelve British National Party activists have been arrested in Liverpool on suspicion of handing out racist leaflets claiming that "our people" are experiencing an "epidemic of racist violence, sexual exploitation and murder" by Muslims. The leaflet alleges the "average racist killer" is 40 times more likely to be from an ethnic minority than "a native Brit"; the Muslim community condones paedophilia; and the English are "relentlessly discriminated against by an institutionally hostile ruling class".

I am not a supporter of the BNP, but many of the points they are supposed to have made in this leaflet are not racist at all, but perfectly valid. It is certainly true that many Muslims are becoming increasingly hostile to the British way of life, and this manifests itself in the fact that 40% of British Muslims would like to see our legal system replaced with sharia law. Does the Muslim community "condone paedophilia"? I'd say so. And while there may be much exaggeration in the BNPs propaganda, it is also true that white victims of racism usually receive far less coverage that those from ethnic minorities.

I do repudiate the BNP, though, especially on this point: "The leaflet also features a photo-montage of white faces which it says are "the forgotten victims of anti-white racism" and asks "Who is next?" Included is Sharon Beshenivsky, a PC shot dead during a robbery by a Somalian man, Yusuf Jamma. It has never been suggested this was anything other than an criminal's attempt to evade arrest." This is absolutely right. The BNP makes some good points, but it is motivated by blind, unreasoning hatred, and thus it shoots itself in the foot when it could be doing so much more to raise awareness of genuine problems and media bias.