Horses for courses here I think !!!! ......LET THE VOTERS DECIDE WHOM THEY WANT TO CAST THEIR VOTE FOR ......

Lets remember here that over the course of History .... just how many wars have been started due to religion ..... KEEP RELIGION AND POLITICS APART !!!, With all the Church scandals of abuse over the years is it not time the Church put its own house in order before accusing others ??????

As you deemed fit to publish this article and warrant it’s prominent front page placement, especially 1 week prior to the EU elections, and as a life-long Oldhamer, I was surprised I had not heard of the Oldham Interfaith Forum before, since front page exposure would naturally only be given to an established, known organisation of known credibility and qualified to speak on the issue in question.

A short time googling reveals scant detail on the OIF, that being that the ‘Lead Person’ is Mr Fazal Rahim, and that the sum of it’s achievements has been concerned only with children in organising trips to mosques for kids of different religions and school workshops on the same.

How does a childrens religious harmony ‘organisation’ qualify to speak on your front page on such a contentious issue as voting advice, or rather, voting dissuasion of a legal party listed on the Electoral Register?

This is little more than a Council tax funded ‘paper’ organisation having a clearly racially biased agenda, solely in order that the Council can tick off it’s box for being multi-culturally diverse.

The statement is a cheap pot-shot at the BNP from some single, council tax funded spokesperson of a so-called interfaith organisation. Your editorial choice of it’s placement shows your publication for what it is, either colluding in anti-democracy or ignorantly not researching properly beforehand.

Do you, as a newspaper, not credit the British public with the intelligence to choose themselves?

Finally, I find the un-named spokespersons reference to Burkes’ ‘good men do nothing’ passage in this context to be completely perverse.

I have to say that I find Stephen Hills comments VERY ILLUMINATING !!!!

Thank you for shedding some light on the origins of this organisation, it certainly helps one to see how biased they are .......

Remember when David Cameron's little six-year old boy died earlier this year? Ivan suffered from Cerebral Palsy and the Camerons said he "brought joy and love to those around him".

The BNP said it would have been better if he'd been killed at birth: "There is actually not a great deal of point in keeping these sort of people alive, after all.”

I'm a lifelong Oldhamer too, and these creeps make me sick. The BNP is not like any other UK political party. The BNP’s favoured methods are not canvassing or voting – they are violence and fear. The BNP is racist and believe in an all white Britain. This would
mean no black players in our national sports
teams, no black musicians, no black nurses,
no Asian doctors and surgeons, no black or
Asian faces in public life.

The BNP build support by whipping up hatred against every minority – just as
Hitler targeted Jewish people. But, like the
Nazis, if the BNP ever came to power they would strip every person in this country of their rights and freedoms.

Don't fall for the lies.

Peter M.

PM, thanks for responding.
However, your comment was no more than a rant on the "evil,nazi,racist (add your own usual expletive here)" BNP. It did not either a/ comment on the article or b/refute or debate a single point of my comment.
Who exactly IS doing the scaremongering here? More you than I.
No more than a rant, and lies at that, clearly you have not even researched yourself or studied a BNP manifesto, I advise you do.

Thanks 'Rudy_mental', I'd be happy to address your comments, if there had been any.

You can read the comments on killing disabled children made by Jeffrey Marshall, BNP organiser for the European Elections campaign here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/may/31/bnp-european-elections-facebook-expose

I think I remember another lot who were keen on murdering disabled children, now who were they again? Oh yes, the Nazis: http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/crips-column/2007/01/disabled-nazis-germany-program

As for the original article itself, what's your problem with it exactly? Why shouldn't any organisation, especially one that's dedicated to improving race/faith relations, point out that a vote for the BNP is incompatible with it's mission?

If you think otherwise then you're pefectly free to do so, and the rest of us are equally free to point out you're a fool.

If you think I've said anything that is a lie then by all means point it out. However there's plenty of evidence on the BNP's own website that they believe in an all-white Britain, and I would suggest you read sites such as Searchlight or Unite against Fascism, or indeed any mainstream newspaper for more evidence of the sheer ****-wittery of the BNPs supporters and policies.

So, no lies, no scaremongering - just simply the facts.

Having read Peter Murphy's rants and comments ......and the reply to them from Rudy Mental ..... I must point out to Peter that .... at present our Country has the right of Free thought ... and indeed Free speech and people are allowed to make up their own minds as to whom they wish to vote for ....I do sometimes wonder if, with reference to his last paragraph, that were the comments reversed, would they be published ???, I somehow doubt it ..... and yet he is allowed to rant ....... after all, lets remember why these parties are becoming a "possible" voting alternative, its simply because the current state of this Country and its Leaders Policies over the years is leading us headlong into a Country where we "bend over backwards" to appease others and I for one am heartedly sick of this !!! and so I suspect are many others too !!!!

A few years ago i was out with my young children and as i was driving back we stopped at traffic lights. Around 4 men came towards the car ranting 'bnp' and 'go home', swearing, shouting racist abuse and spitting on my car. The women with them just thought it was hilarious and laughed and encouraged them for the few minutes we were stopped in traffic. Luckily i had locked the car, and i was furthermore shocked to see people just standing around watching the show! I would be so ashamed if any of these people were my parents or relatives!

If this is the BNP then its them we need to 'send back home', that is under a rock somewhere!