BNP candidate Edith Crowther ‘admires and respects’ Hamas and Islamic Jihad?
Edmund Standing has just posted on his blog relating to an ongoing heated debate I’ve been involved in, on the Premier community forum, entitled:
This debate was originally started by Revd West of the BNP – head of Christain Council of Britain – and he was quickly joined by comrade in arms Edith Crowther.
I’ll let Edmund pick up the trail:
Edith Crowther is the BNP’s Broadland candidate in the forthcoming Norwich North by-election. Crowther is a regular contributor to the Premier Christian Community web forum, where she busies herself defending BNP ‘reverend’ Robert West’s ‘theology of nations’ (West believes that ‘the mixing of races challenges the glory of God’).
Crowther has a keen interest in religious and historical matters and a letter she wrote to the Camden New Journal about housing in King’s Cross managed to take in Henry VIII, the Old Testament, Babylonian texts, ancient Rome, and Hadrian.
A 2008 comment left under her name at the blog of Murad Qureshi, Labour member of the London Assembly, gives us more insight into the wacky worldview of this BNP candidate. In this comment, we learn that Crowther has ‘a Diploma in Modern Classical Arabic Translation’ and that she believes
An Islamic state as laid out in the Koran and Hadith … would be strict but merciful, and true Muslim culture would flourish as it did in the Golden Age of Islam before the rules were relaxed too much and everything became a bit decadent.
According to Crowther’s definition, there are no true Muslims in the West:
As an Arabist I know there aren’t any Muslims in the West, because it is worse than 36 fornications to touch a penny of any money derived from interest, and you will go straight to hell when you die if you are that hypocritical.
Crowther then goes on to explain her attraction to the BNP:
I realised long ago that the BNP is the British equivalent of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, whom I admire and respect and who have great courage. That is why I joined.
Crowther, it appears, considers herself some kind of prophet, and concludes:
[P]rophets are often written off as mad, aren’t they? – including one of the greatest, Muhammad peace and praise be upon him.
Apparently, then, assuming these words are her own, BNP candidate Edith Crowther admires the notion of an Islamic State, considers Muhammad one of the greatest ‘prophets’, and ‘admires and respects’ the Islamist terrorist organisations Hamas and Islamic Jihad for their ‘great courage’.
I would love to see her explain these views to the electorate.
The irony is that if only she could give up all that ‘theology of nations’ drivel, Crowther would surely find herself more than welcome in another well-known crackpot political group.
Tags: Christianity, Politics
April 8th, 2010 at 9:50 pm
Nicely done by Edmund once again. His blog posts have obviously rattled West and Crowther’s cages. I’ve just posted his Harry’s Place blog on the Premier Christian Community thread, so hopefully they’ll keep giving themselves more rope.
I’ve been watching the activities of BNP supporters on the Premier website since the start of the year and it’s hard to know whether to laugh or cry.
On the one hand, I think it is appalling that such a blatantly anti-Christian party is adopting religious rhetoric in order to gain votes.
But then again, dear old Jack Lewis’ thread about how the BNP will protect Christians’ freedom to worship and stop school children learning about “aural sex” was so tragic it made a few of us heretics smile.
April 8th, 2010 at 11:42 pm
Did you know that Hamas also is another word for Violence when translated! As in the days of Noah, there was “Hamas” (violence) etc…. so God destroyed the earth with The Flood.
April 8th, 2010 at 11:47 pm
The Book of Revelation states as in the days of Noah the Son of Man will come. Amen. So no as a Christian I am not going to support Hamas (ie violence).
April 8th, 2010 at 11:49 pm
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April 30th, 2010 at 2:21 am
Hamas is an abbreviation of Harakat al-Muqawamah al-Islamiyyah (Arabic: Islamic Resistance Movement), and the acronym is colloquial Arabic for “enthusiasm” or “zeal.” The H in Hamas is an Arabic ‘Het and it is sounded as a pharyngeal fricative, a sound made deep in the throat like the ‘Het in “Shalom ‘Haver” made famous by President Bill Clinton. The “a”s in Hamas are pronounced approximately like the “a” in “cat.” In Hebrew, the a’s are pronounced as “ah.”
May 25th, 2010 at 9:40 am
The poor voting figures in the broadland area for Edith Crowther(BNP) said it all, you are not wanted in the area with your crackpot and hatred propoganda. In fact it was the poorest show of all the BNP candidates in the Norfolk region, glad you lost your deposit! Please take you views elsewhere, to somewhere people might listen perhaps. Stay out of Norfolk and in particular Broadland. Edith you are an embarrassment to Britain and the British people.