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The British Far-Right Fringe at Prayer
The best-known "Rev" on the BNP list is Robert West, who runs a BNP-backed "Christian Council of Britain". West believes that races should be kept separate: Adam and his descendants were commanded by God to fill the earth, not to come to one part of it, namely England. The refusal of Adam's surviving descendants through Noah to spread out led to God's judgement at Babel, and his confusing of the tongues. The Christian Council of Britain is particularly hostile to perceived Marxism and to Islam, and although it is not particularly active West last year arranged a visit to the UK by the fanatically anti-gay American pseudo-psychologist Paul Cameron. British Blogger Edmund Standing, who monitors the far-right, notes that West recently was asked to preach at the BNP conference in Blackpool and that an extract is available online: The bulk of the video is taken up with readings from John and Matthew regarding the incident of Jesus' 'cleansing' of the Temple, where money changers, people selling doves for sacrifice, and so on, were berated by Jesus, who became enraged and turned over some of their tables. In John's account there is much talk of 'the Jews' and in Matthew's account Jesus tells 'the Jews' that they have made the Temple into 'a den of thieves'. A second BNP reverend is a certain Paul Barker. According to the Wakefield Express:
The Rev Paul Barker, of Fox Court in Durkar, told the Express this afternoon: "I'm furious. I used to be on the mailing list but I have never been a member. I don't know why my name has gone out on the list and I'm now considering the action I am going to take." However, the website of the British People's Party - another fringe far-right party - includes a message allegedly from Barker on page dedicated to condolences on the death of the BNP's founder John Tyndall: A SHORT PRAYER FROM REVD PAUL BARKER FATHER GOD WE THANK YOU FOR THE LIFE OF JOHN TYNDALL HE WAS A TRUE SOLDIER OF GOD MAY OUR FATHER TAKE HIM UNTO HIMSELF AMEN Amusingly, this comes directly below an Odinist opining on how Tyndall is in Valhalla. Thirdly, we have Rev John Stanton, who joined the BNP for a short time but left following tearful appeals from family members. All three of these "Reverends", it should be noted, have obscure denominational affiliations - none of them, despite some media reports to the contrary, are ministers in the Church of England. As well as these clerics, the list includes Colin Farquhar of the "Durham British-Israel Fellowship", which is associated with the British Israelite World Fellowship. Edmund Standing notes a link between Farquhar and Alan Campbell of Open Bible Ministries, Belfast, who promotes the teachings of "Dr. B Comparet", aka Bertrand Comparet. Comparet helped to found Christian Identity, and he was of course explicitly racist.
Standing adds that In the year 2000, a website appeared at the address christianidentity.org.uk and continued until 2005. The self-styled 'pastor' who ran the website promoted the extreme 'two-seedline' [anti-Jewish] Identity 'theology' and provided a wealth of hardcore Identity teachings and links to numerous neo-Nazi organisations. The main organisation promoted by the `pastor' was the BNP...Investigating Christian Identity for an undergraduate essay, I contacted the 'pastor' posing as an Identity believer and duly received a couple of CDs, one featuring an Identity 'sermon' and one featuring a National Front era speech given by veteran Nazi and BNP founder John Tyndall. Standing also notes a Christian Identity link missed by the media in reports of the recent conviction of a certain Nathan Worrell, who had links to several far-right and neo-Nazi organisations. Worrell, who lived in Grimsby, was found to have had explosives in his flat, and to have waged a hate campaign against a nearby mixed-race couple. The Beverley Guardian reported that: Earlier the court heard how racist stickers had been left on the gate and a nearby lamppost of the home of a mixed-race couple. Standing adds: Where might he have got the 'race-mixing slut' stickers from?
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