'Immature, tasteless and pathetic' BNP angers its supporters with teddy bear stunt

The British National Party has infuriated its supporters over on the Stormfront UK nazi forum by producing a toy teddy bear named 'Muhammad', in a crass attempt to cash in on the furore over the Gillian Gibbons case in Sudan.

The announcement that the bear was available from the BNP's cheap tat department, Excalibur, bizarrely appeared as a news report on the front page of the party's website but, following numerous angry comments over at Stormfront, was rapidly relegated to the Excalibur page alone.

Presumably, this was an attempt to anger Muslims in this country, as was the reprinting of the cartoons that caused such a fuss a couple of years ago - both stunts deliberately contrived as an attack on Islam. This is made clear in the sales blurb, which describes those who were offended in the original case in Sudan as 'absurd' and 'demented'.

The joke seems to have backfired with some force on this most idiotic and childish of political parties, with angry comments being fired at the BNP by those it would normally class as its supporters. We've reprinted a number of the comments below.

'Yet again more immature behavour from the british national party...'

'This is a puerile stunt on the BNP's part.'

'Yet another own goal...'

'I think it is not fitting for [Griffin] to condone within his party such a tasteless gesture and it shows an incredible immaturity on his part.'

'Shame on the bnp.'

'When I first read this I cringed and I’m sure I’m not the only one.'

'On a serious political level, this is really quite embarrassing.'

'...this will most likely be passed off as either stupidity or an attempt to stir up trouble. I think the end result of this will most likely not be a beneficial one for the BNP.'

'...how can the BNP possibly be taken seriously?'

and a rather more comprehensive critique, which we'll leave you to ponder (particularly if you're one of our many BNP readers who are always writing in to tell us how clever Nick Griffin is).

'What complete and utter crap. How totally childish and pathetic. It's so awful it is embarassing. How can anyone take the BNP seriously with this sort of juvenile nonsense... Trash...'

Which all sounds about right to us.