Further news on deplorable election tactics with BNP and UKIP candidates both taking aim at Muslims and Islam in a desperate bid for votes.

The Western Mail reports that BNP candidate in the Welsh Assembly elections, Susan Harwood, has “display[ed] highly offensive material that advocates violence against members of a Muslim organisation on her Facebook site.”

From the Western Mail:

“Politicians from mainstream parties have condemned Susan Harwood, a BNP candidate in Torfaen at next week’s National Assembly election.

“The material, which uses abusive four-letter language about a group called Muslims Against Crusades, was featured on Ms Harwood’s Facebook site, but has since been removed.

“Labour’s Lynne Neagle, who has represented the seat since the Assembly was formed and is seeking re-election, said: “This is outrageous behaviour by someone who pretends to be a respectable candidate in a democratic election. It’s one thing to oppose an organisation’s views, but her actions go far beyond legitimate criticism.

““It is totally unacceptable that BNP candidates continue to behave like this. People across Wales should know that a vote for the BNP is a vote for thugs and racists of the worst sort. If the BNP had a shred of decency, they would drop Susan Harwood as a candidate.””

The BNP has already been referred to the Electoral Commission over leaflets distributed in Scotland which falsely claimed that there are “more Muslims in the UK than Scots.”

And the Leicester Mercury reports that UKIP candidate for the Leicester South by-election, Abhijit Pandya, wrote a blog article calling Islam "morally flawed and degenerate."

From the Leicester Mercury:

"The UKIP candidate for the Leicester South by-election has caused outrage by condemning Islam on his blog.

"In the article, Abhijit Pandya called Islam "morally flawed and degenerate" and said he backed a controversial Dutch politician, who called Islam a retarded ideology.

"“In his blog, Mr Pandya wrote: "Campaigning in Leicester recently, I have been shocked to discover the quanta of those from Islamic backgrounds on one form of a benefit or another.

“"Islamic culture inherently rejects the Western way of life, more specifically the Protestant work ethic that has successfully built the economies of the West. The increase of Islam in the UK is going to be a problem for the welfare state.

""A removal of multi-culturalism and assimilation of these people needs to done to save them from the abyss of exclusion and welfare. Above all, one should not shy away of contemplating forced repatriation, or threatening it to further assimilation, as a result of their lack of economic contribution to the UK."

"He added: "A system that treats women as slaves without chains is morally flawed and degenerate.

""Why should Britain, the country that fathered the modern world, put up with this – as (controversial Dutch politician Geert) Wilder's put it – 'retarded ideology'."

It is important that the Electoral Commission properly investigate the speech and behaviour by electoral candidates for possible infraction of our anti-discrimination and incitement to racial and religious hatred laws.

Though of course the greater burden of proof required to prosecute cases of incitement to religious hatred compared to racial hatred leaves Muslims more vulnerable to the practice with lesser protection under the law.

UPDATE: The Leicester Mercury's editorial this week:

"Leicester South hopeful Abhijit Pandya has said the anti-Islamic diatribe published on his blog was an attempt to highlight issues regarding integration and employment "which we should not shy away from discussing."

"Really? To us it seemed like a wildly inflammatory rant which boiled down to a crass and nasty characterisation of Muslims as lazy, intolerant spongers who are a threat to the British way of life. It was not part of a reasoned debate about multiculturalism, but a series of sweeping, unsubstantiated generalisations which demonise the Muslim community."

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Abdullah   |2011-04-29 13:23:03 Have you seen the kafirs latest Islamophobic blog post? Why is this dog allowed to insult us. http://apgpandya.blogspot.com/2011/04/what-would-have-formidable-victorian_29.html Gladstone, the greatest British figure of the 19th Century said of the Koran: “This accursed book”. He once held it up during a session of Parliament, declaring: “So long as there is this book there will be no peace in the world”. Winston Churchill, recently declared the greatest Britain of all time in a poll by the BBC, said of Hitler’s Mein Kampf: “the new Koran of faith and war: turgid, verbose, shapeless, but pregnant with its message”. The Victorians with their deeply held ideals of tolerance (which became non-negotiable in society following the important act of repealing the Test and Corporation Acts of 1828) would not have bartered it away to allow for a permissive exception to its existence, in the way we tolerate Islam to be practiced uncontrolled in our country today.

Paul Latham  - UKIP and the Muslim communities in Britain   |2011-05-03 09:09:21 As an active UKIP candidate in the Bradford MDC elections I absolutely refute the inference made about Muslims by the Leicester Mercury in the editorial. This does not represent the position of UKIP as a national party and I state now that members of my own family have been brought up in the Islamic faith and I find such smearing tactics as abhorrent and without foundation. I can only assume that this editorial coverage has been made for cheap political reasons. This should be withdrawn immediately and an apology issued forthwith.

pjl20  - UKIP - No racist Nonsense Please   |2011-05-03 12:13:01 I note that the Leicester Mercury is claiming that the candidate in the Leicester South ward, Abhijit Pandya, is reported for an anti-Islamic diatribe. Of which ethnic group and nationality is Mr Pandya? I think to use this type of material is uncalled for in an election campaign, either way. I am standing in a ward within Bradford MDC and I find the attempt to brand UKIP racist, abhorrent, I have members of my own family who were brought up in the Islamic faith. UKIP is not in any way racist, we have candidates of all faiths and ethnic backgrounds standing throughout the country in these local elections. The Leicester Mercury needs to get it's facts straight. Mr Pandya who sounds as if he may originate from the sub-continent of South Asia is by no means racist. The point made about women being treated in a flawed and degenerate way is of course echoed in the manner women must dress in Saudi Arabia (in the Burka from head to toe) and who are totally excluded from driving a car. Please let us not be disingenuous in our editorials about political parties at this time. UKIP is a middle of the road anti-EU party that offers a genuine alternative to the pro-EU high taxation rhetoric from the three main parties.

pa.mohamedameen  - Political Deception   |2011-05-06 12:48:50 Among people there is Pandya. A person who is able to defeat his opponent in a controversy by the use of deception, and by extremely adroit and misleading arguments, such a person seems to be our friend. He may assume to hold plausable and admirable views regarding a possible improvement of human society and of man’s lot on earth, but at the same time refuse to be guided by what they regard as ‘esoteric’ considerations—like belief in accountability after death—and justify their exclusive preoccupation with the affairs of this world by seemingly sound argument and stress on their own ethical objectives. The Holy Quran describe such people as “exceedingly skillful in argument, but whenever he prevails, he goes about the arth speading corruption and destroying man’s tilth and progeny” Chapter 2: Verse 204 Such peoples only real concern is the life of this world

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