Following the “Muslim Patrols” scoop by the editor of this site last year, the Docklands and East London Advertiser has revealed that new “Christian Patrols” organised by hard-line nationalist activists formerly with the British National Party (BNP) are beginning to appear in East London.
Videos show former BNP activists touring the East End of London in armoured vehicles, handing out flyers claiming to educate about the local “Muslim Patrols” that all but died out after they were exposed last year.
The armoured Land Rover of the “Christian Patrols”
The nationalist group ‘Britain First’ drove into Brick Lane in two armoured Gulf War landrovers on Friday with leaflets warning of “Muslim Patrols” in the area. The group was condemned by the Bishop of Stepney who said there was no place for them in Tower Hamlets.
Britain First’s chairman, Paul Golding, formerly a senior figure in the BNP, said he hoped to “draw out” Muslim extremists using cigarettes and beer as “bait”.
Speaking to the Docklands and East London Advertiser, Mr Golding said: “This is going to be a regular thing. We’re going to be out there every weekend to draw out these Muslim Patrols.”
Three members of the “Muslim Patrols” gang were jailed in December for threatening the public for “un-Islamic” behaviour. Last week, Britain First posted a video online of its first Christian Patrol handing out leaflets in Brick Lane.
In the video, one man is shown saying: “This is our country. You want to live here, you adhere by our laws.” The men stood outside the East London Mosque in Whitechapel smoking and drinking beer, then unfurled a banner with the word “resistance” on it.
The Rt Rev Adrian Newman, Bishop of Stepney, said: “East London is proud of its generous attitude to diversity, based on tolerance and respect. “There is no place for vigilante patrols, Christian, Muslim or any other faith, on the streets of Tower Hamlets.”
He added: “Our kaleidoscopic community thrives on celebrating our differences, not condemning them.”
A spokesman for the East London Mosque said: “Britain First’s patrol does not represent Christians, just as al-Muhajiroun’s patrols did not represent Muslims. Both are tiny, extreme groups, unwelcome in our community.”
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