the guardian
The head of the English Defence League, Tommy Robinson, will be named deputy leader of the British Freedom party this week after proposing that the group adopt virulent anti-Islamic policies as its central strategy.
Confirmation that Robinson is to be offered a political platform within the BFP is contained in internal documents revealing that he has forwarded a number of “potential policy suggestions” that suggest the party will widen its attacks on Muslims.
The document suggests the BFP with Robinson would “focus on non-Islamic population, not white/black population”, a move that critics describe as an attempt to antagonise relations between Muslims and other Britons. Other proposed areas of campaigning for the party, which will contest several seats in this week’s local elections, include calls for regulation of all mosques and religious schools and the banning of the burqa and niqab.
Categories: Discrimination, Extremism, Faith, Hijab, Islam, Islamism, Islamophobia, Law and Religion, Religious persecution, UK
It is always tragic and counter-productive if a program of any political party is to be only ‘Against’ something instead of ‘for’ something. (This besides the fact that it is purely ‘anti-Islamic’).
It shows their lack of a ‘real’ program.