{"id":1912,"date":"2004-07-19T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-19T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/?p=1912"},"modified":"2004-07-19T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-07-19T06:00:00","slug":"bnp_activists_stung_by_undercover_documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2004\/07\/bnp_activists_stung_by_undercover_documentary\/","title":{"rendered":"Confronting hatred: BNP activists stung by undercover documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altmuslim.com\/ee_images\/bnp.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"right\">\n<div class=\"caption\">Gotcha!<\/div>\n<p><\/p><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Caught by a surprise BBC documentary called The Secret Agent, the UK\u2019s far-right British National Party has had to answer to allegations (admissions, rather) of <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk%2F2%2Fhi%2Fuk_news%2F3894529.stm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">hate crimes<\/a> against British Muslims (those featured on the show were mostly of Pakistani descent), along with diatribes against Africans and Jews (including Conservative leader <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk%2F1%2Fhi%2Fuk_politics%2F3245561.stm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Michael Howard\u2019s<\/a> Jewish roots). Party members were caught on tape admitting to assaults on Pakistanis and inciting others to violence. The party leader, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sky.com%2Fskynews%2Farticle%2F0%2C%2C30000-13156763%2C00.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Nick Griffin<\/a>, also called Islam a \u201cwicked, vicious faith.\u201d BBC journalist Jason Gwynne spent six months <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk%2F1%2Fhi%2Fmagazine%2F3896213.stm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">undercover<\/a> in the organisation (he was assisted by a disillusioned <a href=\"http:\/\/politics.guardian.co.uk%2Ffarright%2Fstory%2F0%2C11375%2C1262434%2C00.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">BNP member<\/a>), winning the trust of party leaders and taping their stories of racial assault and xenophobia. The programme, which aired last week, prompted police to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.independent.co.uk%2Fuk%2Fpolitics%2Fstory.jsp%3Fstory%3D541502\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">investigate<\/a> the allegations (they needed a documentary for this?) and left the BNP <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bnp.org.uk%2Fnews%2F2004_july%2Fnews_july06.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">struggling<\/a> for explanations (they claim to have expelled two party members featured in the expose). Days later, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fmain.jhtml%3Fxml%3D%2Fnews%2F2004%2F07%2F17%2Fnbnp17.xml%26sSheet%3D%2Fportal%2F2004%2F07%2F17%2Fixportal.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Barclays Bank<\/a> shut down 5 BNP accounts. The group had made strides in the recent past to become more mainstream, winning a notable amount of local <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opinion.telegraph.co.uk%2Fopinion%2Fmain.jhtml%3Fxml%3D%2Fopinion%2F2004%2F07%2F16%2Fdo1601.xml%26sSheet%3D%2Fopinion%2F2004%2F07%2F16%2Fixopinion.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">council seats<\/a> and nearly a seat in the European Parliament. Griffin, however, remained defiant, and reasserted his views in a BBC rebuttal. \u201cYou give me 20 minutes or an hour \u2013 a special programme to dissect the Koran and I will show you that we have a monster in our midst.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Zahed Amanullah is associate editor of altmuslim.com.\u00a0 He is based in London, England.\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After coaxing a prospective member into its midst, the British National Party finds itself at the mercy of an undercover report capturing their threats and vitriol against Muslims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":531,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-briefings"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Confronting hatred: BNP activists stung by undercover documentary<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"After coaxing a prospective member into its midst, the British National Party finds itself at the mercy of an undercover report capturing their threats and vitriol against Muslims.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2004\/07\/bnp_activists_stung_by_undercover_documentary\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Confronting hatred: BNP activists stung by undercover documentary\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"After coaxing a prospective member into its midst, the British National Party finds itself at the mercy of an undercover report capturing their threats and vitriol against Muslims.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2004\/07\/bnp_activists_stung_by_undercover_documentary\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"altmuslim\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2004-07-19T06:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/www.altmuslim.com\/ee_images\/bnp.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"zahedamanullah\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"zahedamanullah\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2004\/07\/bnp_activists_stung_by_undercover_documentary\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2004\/07\/bnp_activists_stung_by_undercover_documentary\/\",\"name\":\"Confronting hatred: BNP activists stung by undercover documentary\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2004-07-19T06:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2004-07-19T06:00:00+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/#\/schema\/person\/871b6e097b0060bce500f444bd5940ba\"},\"description\":\"After coaxing a prospective member into its midst, the British National Party finds itself at the mercy of an undercover report capturing their threats and vitriol against Muslims.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2004\/07\/bnp_activists_stung_by_undercover_documentary\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2004\/07\/bnp_activists_stung_by_undercover_documentary\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2004\/07\/bnp_activists_stung_by_undercover_documentary\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Confronting hatred: BNP activists stung by undercover documentary\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/\",\"name\":\"altmuslim\",\"description\":\"Global perspectives on Muslim life, politics &amp; 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