No.10 website carries threats of violence against Muslims

THE EXTREME RIGHT have threatened violence against Muslims on Downing Street's website in a protest over a proposed Mosque.

The British National Party and other neo-Nazi groups are supporting a petition on No.10's website which warns, ominously, of "terrible violence and suffering" should the so-called mega mosque go ahead

This is certain to be taken as a warning that physical violence could be unleashed against Muslims unless the dissenters get their way and defeat plans to build a mosque on the Olympic site in Stratford, east London.

Yesterday the Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, attacked another online poll being run at the same time, on the London Evening Standard's "thisislondon" website, which is also being pushed on the BNP's website.

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Livingstone said the poll was "aimed at stirring up communal hatred by spreading entirely false statements about plans for a new mosque in East London."

The mayor accuses opponents of spreading false propaganda by claiming £100m of public money would be pumped into the mosque, when there are no plans to spend any public money on the project.

Livingstone said the false claims were "clearly designed to deliberately whip up communal hatred and contain content that is entirely untrue.They are clearly being spread in an organised way for unscrupulous political reasons".

He added: "There is no proposal to use any public money at all for such a mosque; there is no link between plans for a mosque and the Olympics; and, as widely reported, there are actually no plans for a mosque on the scale claimed in the email."

However the Downing Street petition, with its implicit threat of far-right attacks on Muslims, is potentially even more serious. Over 30,000 people had signed the petition this morning.

Blink is encouraging readers to complain to No.10 over the reference to "terrible violence and suffering" if the mosque is built. Please email webmaster@pmo.gov.uk and ask for these words to be removed or failing that, the whole petition taken off line.

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