Ukip And The Anti-Islam Candidate

[sp1814]

Should UKIP MEPs resign en masse if an anti-Islam candidate becomes their leader?

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/ukip-islam-farage-anne-marie-waters_uk_595a4ae7e4b0da2c7324aac0

[Zacs-Master]

Beware of news stories with unspecified 'sources'. MEPs getting off the gravy train!? Eeeeydontthinksoooo.

[naomi24]

Unless I’m mistaken in thinking leaders are elected by the rest of the party, why would there be a mass walk-out if the majority elected her? That doesn’t make sense.

[vetuste_ennemi]

Anne Marie Waters campaigns against Sharia, which everybody who believes in things like equality should be against too.

Liberal societies have a duty to be intolerant of intolerance. Assuming, of course, that these societies want to remain liberal and tolerant.

[EDDIE51]

The Brownshirts ! What an apt name for UKIP supporters!

[Khandro]

Lots more fake and unspecifically sourced 'news' from the feeble liberal left, music to the ears of the politically illiterate.
Opposing Sharia courts in the UK is not the same as opposing Islam per se, I know that, Tommy Robinson (who has many Muslim supporters) knows that and so do all those who are informed on the subject.

[mikey4444]

What possible difference will it make if all the UKIP MEPs do resign ?

"Officials are panicking that a wave of far-right activists have infiltrated the party"

So, its only now that they are finding that out ?

[vetuste_ennemi]

Has the zoo opened early?

[vetuste_ennemi]

Just watched the last episode of Broken. At the start of the series suspected the worst when I saw the name Jimmy McGovern (remembering him and similar like Bleasdale and Loach from my youth).

But he's got something to say(some of it good, some of it stupid) and tells both well. And he acknowledges in a limited way a little nuance. And I as a viewer reject what I think are his gross propaganda points, but acknowledge the validity (with reservations of course) of some of his criticisms of modern society.

Now why is it that some AB posters cannot make the least effort to li]listen[i] to a point of view before condemning it?

In my book this omission amounts to intellectual indolence or incapacity at best, and bigotry at worst.

[naomi24]

^I'd plump for either of the last two of those three options.

[Old_Geezer]

Party leaders are not unknown to hold controversial opinions. Doesn't mean the party policy follows their view. If a party leader held an unpopular opinion causing other members to resign, there'd be a lot of one member parties about. And that'd probably be a good thing, given that parties are the antithesis of democracy.

[Togo]

//HuffPost UK//
Ahhh Huffington Post car alarm news. We have Muslim political leaders elected on an anti Christian ticket, that's OK though. Society will now eventually proselytize into the factions and then the fun starts in earnest.

[EDDIE51]

I have to agree it is pointless the UKIP MEP's resigning, they will be history in less than 2 years anyway like the rest of their party!

[mikey4444]

Well said Eddie !

[sp1814]

Togo

We have Muslim political leaders elected on an anti Christian ticket, that's OK though.

I'm struggling to work out who they are.

Can you clarify?

[anotheoldgit]

EDDIE51
/// The Brownshirts ! What an apt name for UKIP supporters! ///

Read the report properly, it does not say that UKIP or it's supporters are 'Brownshirts'

// Officials are panicking that a wave of far-right activists have infiltrated the party in order to vote for the controversial Anne Marie Waters, with one source describing them as the “Brownshirts’ Momentum” - a reference to Adolf Hitler’s militia during his rise to power. //

But it must be hard for the likes of you, to read that UKIP are against this kind of thing, no longer to be called A Far-Right Nazi party.

[ToraToraTora]

no

[ludwig]

It's entirely a personal decision for each of them. If they don't like her they probably should, but if they're also 'anti-islam' to it'd be a strange thing to do.