The BNP and Jesus...how to redress the balance

[scumbalina]

Bum poo

 

[scumbalina]

Hmm...what kind of hoax? .... Press seems to be reporting it.

A hoax made of win then?

 

[berniedicters]

Come on, are people really falling for this?

real pic:
http****://www.bnp.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/billboard01.jpg

fake pic:
http*****://www.britishpride.org/45.gif

Oh

Heh.

 

[harpo]

A hoax made of win then?

Yes, seems so. A quick trip round message boards suggests it seems to have shed them in a very negative light. Good.

Weird times...

PS D'oh.

 

[dylans]

This is an april fools joke right?
Although, I think its a hoax, it wouldnt be without precedent. The American fascist right use christian images all the time. Think of the burning crosses of the clan. I guess they could fit it into a British=white=christian kind of thing.

 

[harpo]

It's been promulgated so widely that even if it was a hoax, it isn't now.

I admit, I can't work out what's going on. Could some kind soul come and spell it out for me?

 

[laptop]

Gawd knows who planted it. We may have to wait for a confession.



I'm thinking back to a time when I had hair to my waist and some lairy lads on the Tube were yelling "Hey, Jesus!"

"If there was such a person, he looked more like Yasser Arafat than me."

"Er, yes mate." Silence.




If the BNP did plant a hoax billboard using a Palestinian Jew... nah, no way... or are they as dumb as the Texas Governor who exclaimed "If English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me!"?

 

[where to]

weirdos.

 

[AKA pseudonym]

Now I is really confused!!!

Just received an email supposedly from Nick Lowles, who i presume was the author of, White Noise: Inside the International Nazi Skinhead Scene. The mail originates from the hope not Hate site affiliated with Searchlight...

Dear friend,

Earlier this week we launched a petition condemning the BNP's billboard campaign to whip up interfaith tension. Within hours, thousands of people joined us in condemning the BNPs paper-thin attempt to use Jesus Christ to spread hate and division.

And now we're going turn their disgraceful tactics against them. The BNP tried to use Jesus in their ads to generate some cheap publicity.

And we're going to give them that - but instead of the BNP getting a few lousy newspaper stories, we're going to unite entire communities against their message of hate. We've just finished designing a leaflet about the BNP's billboard that we want to distribute to faith groups across the country. But to do this we need your help - please donate £5 or whatever you can afford now -

http://action.hopenothate.org.uk/target4250

Yesterday I met with the Reverend Paul Butler, who said that the BNP had given us a "gift." He said that this issue could rally hundreds of thousands of people of faith to our campaign - building on the strength of Britain's peaceful and tolerant society. This really could be our most crucial hour against the BNP yet.

wtf?
Is this some sort of elaborate scam or is it on the level?

 

[Fuchs66]

About as funny as the "Battle of Britain" poster they did when it turned out that they'd used a picture of a Spitfire belonging to a Polish squadron. Fucking bunch of thick bastards the lot of 'em.

 

[butchersapron]

Now I is really confused!!!

Just received an email supposedly from Nick Lowles, who i presume was the author of, White Noise: Inside the International Nazi Skinhead Scene. The mail originates from the hope not Hate site affiliated with Searchlight...





wtf?
Is this some sort of elaborate scam or is it on the level?

Sounds to me like, (providing that letter from NG is genuine) they they're trying to scam the church into drumming up a load of free publicity for them via their expected outrage. They know the churches can barely touch their vote - they know they're not really running this purported billboard campaign - and Nick Lowles and Searchlight probably do as well and are taking the opportunity to drum up some dosh and bodies on the ground off the back of it. Or, more simply some do-gooders are being wound up.

That billboard is simply an old campaign pr shot from the london elections last may with some funny stuff that no party would ever dream of putting out shopped onto it.

 

[harpo]

At what point does a hoax become 'real'? A lot of people seem to think it is, the hoax message really hasn't got out.

 

[butchersapron]

It wasn't meant to - people were supposed to beleive it.

 

[danny la rouge]

I'm sorry, but I don't give a fuck either way. I can't be arsed breaking the links in order to see the real poster. Would Jesus be in the BNP? Probably, he was a twat. Is the parody any good? Too believable.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Hmm...what kind of hoax? Reference above broken. Press seems to be reporting it.

ETA...ah, right, they're just using a benign image not a bloodied cross. It's still an invidious message. The BNP has no common ground with christianity, they're jumping on the American bandwagon where Christianity is synomymous with the Right. It's a dangerous route and possibly an effective one for them.

To say they have "no common ground" depends entirely on what you take "Christianity" to mean, unfortunately.