tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12471112.post4202699210753808843..comments2023-08-20T11:07:28.396+01:00Comments on Freeborn John: Wikan festivalPeter Risdonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17792275403997179926noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12471112.post-29530904667231852702006-12-20T00:22:00.000+00:002006-12-20T00:22:00.000+00:00I wasn't equating the BNP with WAR in that sense, ...I wasn't equating the BNP with WAR in that sense, just saying they have both draw their members from the ranks of the powerless. You're right, the BNP are nowhere near as bad as WAR. They're not as bad as the Islamists, and they're not as bad as most of the state-funded Muslim groups who bay for their prosecution or banning.<br /><br />Beneath the window dressing of their website, though, are people with long histories of political and other violence, and those with the strange habit of dressing up in brown uniforms in private. Sorry, I don't like them at all.<br /><br />Few veiled women have anything erotic about them, it's true. Equally, some do.Peter Risdonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17792275403997179926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12471112.post-17188085972348231652006-12-19T20:43:00.000+00:002006-12-19T20:43:00.000+00:00I quite enjoy most of your posts and happen to agr...I quite enjoy most of your posts and happen to agree with much of what you say. I do part company with you on your constant sniping at the BNP and your portrayal of them as 'hateful, fascistic and violent'. Equating the BNP with the White Aryan Resistance is really a bit much. Having read all the material on their site I've yet to find anything violent or fascistic and the only hatred to be found is reserved for the Marxist left who have got us into this sorry mess.<br /><br />I'm also far from convinced by the veiled and covered woman as erotic and immodest argument. All I can say it doesn't have anywhere near that effect on me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12471112.post-37602128013812683462006-12-19T11:26:00.000+00:002006-12-19T11:26:00.000+00:00For another example of the host community must ada...For another example of the host community must adapt idea see Brian Walden's BBC News comment, <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/6183873.stm">What does multiculturalism mean?</a>:<br /><br /><i>"This is not a problem incapable of accommodation, but Muslims will have to be allowed to proclaim convictions opposite to those of the majority. That will call for goodwill on all sides.</i>"<br /><br />He doesn't even consider whether Muslims will have to adapt their beliefs to fit the host country - like everybody else has to. But requiring everyone else to change to accommodate Islam will apparently require "goodwill on both sides"...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12471112.post-66635707745058434122006-12-19T00:23:00.000+00:002006-12-19T00:23:00.000+00:00Wikan appears to be female. Also, it may be that t...Wikan appears <a href="http://timblair.net/ee/index.php/weblog/comments/adapt_to_it/#196944">to be female</a>. Also, it may be that there are two of them, or that some of her views have been poorly translated, or something, or maybe what seems consistent to her doesn't seem consistent to others. Dunno (obviously).Gordon Freecehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10779983208898166853noreply@blogger.com