From The BNP Site & trouble in Arabia

Manchester hall Says “yes” to Muslims but “no” to patriotic Britons. Yesterday the owners of Bridgewater Hall formally communicated to our events organiser that our Anti-White Racism Conference planned for October could not take place in their venue.

The owners explained that “Given the media sensitivity at this time, the security required to make your event safe and the fact that there are other events taking place at the Hall during the same day on 15 October, we do not believe it is in the interests of our business to proceed with this event and exert our right not to proceed.”

Pressure?

No one is quite sure what “media sensitivity” actually means. It is a possible code phrase for “media pressure”, in echoes of the actions of the Labour supporting rag “The Sunday People”, which last summer demonstrated its “sensitivity” on learning that the BNP held a number of bank accounts with Barclays Bank. The “sensitivity” of the newspaper editors manifested itself in the form of a threat to encourage corporate customers to close their accounts with the High Street bank. When sensitivity manifests itself as nothing less than blackmail, it moves from being a legitimate concern to downright criminality.

Muslim extremists

The cancellation comes just weeks after the prestigious venue played host to a rally of Islamic extremists. The Muslim Unity Conference on Sunday 7th August was attended by just over 2,000 extremists from all over Britain with speakers from the Middle East, Canada and the USA. The conference was organised by the Ramadhan Foundation which is the name often used by the extremist Hizb ut Tahrir. This radical organisation was described by as racist and anti-Semitic even by the BBC. In a 2003 investigation the Newsnight programme discovered that its website promotes racism and anti-Semitic hatred, calls suicide bombers martyrs, and urges Muslims to kill Jewish people.

The BNP sponsored conference hopes to bring together guests from as far afield as South Africa, France, Netherlands and the southern states of the US who will be joining with delegates from a number of chosen UK organisations to discuss this challenging issue with a working title of The Hidden Holocaust: Anti-White Racism and Murder in the 21st century.

It is imperative that this issue is not ignored by policy makers and executive authorities but discussed openly and tackled effectively. Too many white, mostly youngsters, have fallen victim to anti-white murder and many more families will suffer the loss of a loved one, a brother, son, cousin or nephew until a strong message is delivered that anti-white racism will not be tolerated.

The Events Organiser is now busy seeking to secure an alternative venue and we will keep our readers apprised of developments.

n.b. In our article earlier we stated that Bridgewater Hall was owned by Greater Manchester Council. This is not the case, Bridgewater Hall is privately owned and we are happy to put the record straight.


Also trouble in Saudi:
Saudi forces have been battling militants since May 2003. (Reuters)

RIYADH, September 6, 2005 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – Saudi security forces stormed on Tuesday, September 6, a hideout of suspected Al-Qaeda militants in the eastern city of Dammam after three days of intense clashes that claimed the lives of four policemen and five suspects.

"Security forces have stormed the building and are now purging the location" in the main city of the oil-rich Eastern Province, a security source told Agence France-Presse (AFP), requesting anonymity.

He did not give further details but witnesses saw ambulances and civil defense vehicles entering the scene of the gunbattle in Al-Hamra district.

Shooting died down after security forces pounded and raided the building in which the militants had been holed up since Sunday, September 4.

The Interior Ministry said four security men were killed and 10 wounded in a three-day operation.

A statement read on state television said troops found charred remains in the site, without giving the number of militants killed.

A security source earlier told AFP that three armed men were killed Monday, September 5, and two a day earlier.

The Interior Ministry has said that the two militants slain Sunday were sought by the authorities, without saying if they were on a published list of most-wanted militants.

Unlike neighboring Dhahran, Dammam is not an oil center or a hub for foreign firms, although several have offices on the street where Sunday's initial shootout took place.

Anti-Terror Center

In another development, Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal said the kingdom was seeking UN endorsement of its proposal for an international center to combat terrorism which poses a threat to "global peace".

"Saudi Arabia has presented a proposal to the UN secretary general (Kofi Annan) and governments who participated in the international anti-terrorism conference (held in the Saudi capital last February) calling for the General Assembly to issue a resolution endorsing the Riyadh Declaration," he said.

The resolution would adopt "the recommendations made by the conference, chiefly the proposal by King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz (then crown prince) to set up an international center to combat terrorism," Saud was quoted as saying by the official SPA news agency.

The minister said Riyadh had suggested forming a working team of experts who would decide the steps needed to implement the proposal and put their plan to next year's General Assembly session.

The conference held in Riyadh in February was attended by delegates from some 50 countries and international organizations.

Ongoing Battle

The battle in Dammam was the latest in a series of confrontations between security forces and Al-Qaeda suspects who have carried out a wave of shootings and bombings in the oil-rich kingdom since May 2003, much of it targeting Westerners.

A fierce three-day gunbattle in April in the town of Al-Rass in the Al-Qassim region, a haven for militants some 320 kilometers (200 miles) north of Riyadh, left 15 suspected militants dead.

They included Saud Al-Otaibi, whom authorities described as Al-Qaeda chief in Saudi Arabia, and Moroccan Abdel Karim Al-Mejati, presumed mastermind of the March 2004 Madrid train bombings.

One-time local Al-Qaeda chief Saleh Al-Ufi was killed during a shootout with security forces in the holy city of Al-Madina Al-Munawarra on August 18.

Two other militants were also killed in the clashes in Al-Madina and Riyadh, including one figuring on a most-wanted list.

Saudi authorities said they had thwarted terrorist attacks, including one in Riyadh, during the coordinated operations of August 18.

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