Re: And how did you celebrate 1 May?

In article <woSdncL34KBe_4DVnZ2dneKdnZydnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 Graham Woodland <gray@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> Checking their current leader Nick Griffin will offer a somewhat 
> different picture:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Griffin

Thanks. According to that:

He was prosecuted for saying that Islam was "a wicked and vicious 
faith." I don't agree with him, but it hardly seems much like Nazism. 

He was acquitted of the charge of "using words or behaviour intended or 
likely to stir up racial hatred," which suggests that British jurors are 
more in favor of freedom of speech than British prosecutors. 

Judging by the description of the Oxford Union Debate, it was the 
opponents who were acting like Nazis--using force to try to prevent 
their opponent from speaking. 

He apparently is, or at least was, a holocaust denier, but while I don't 
think that is a defensible position I also don't think it is equivalent 
to being a Nazi.

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