Britain First try to blame sex assault on migrants

Far right hate group Britain First are a deceptive bunch of bigots, and will do anything to pass off false information to mislead the gullible.

On 6 February, Britain First shared a Daily Mail story on Facebook which reported on a female journalist who was groped live on television reporting from the Cologne carnival in Germany.

Britain First, blaming refugees and migrants as usual, wrote ‘deport these migrant fiends’, and went on to ask supporters to ‘Like’ and ‘Share’ the post.

But…

The same Daily Mail story mentioned that Ms Labye… “a broadcast journalist with 20 years experience behind her, knows her attackers were German.”

RT also wrote that “several men of apparently European appearance were making obscene gestures behind her. They tried to grope her and reportedly asked her to sleep with one of them.”

Britain First recycles false news story to spread hate

According to Political Scrapbook, the Daily Express removed a false story recently suggesting that 1.5 million British Muslims support terror group ISIS based on an inaccurate poll from the Mirror.

Britain First knew the Daily Express story was removed, as shown below.

Some days later, Britain First’s affiliate page, Knights Templar International, shared the same story with a similar headline to the Daily Express. Britain First shared it.

Britain First has no regard for truth. They know people will believe this garbage.

Note: BuzzFeed also reported on the fake Daily Express story.

EDL show they do hate all Muslims after all

The hate group known as the English Defence League (EDL) has many times been accused of targeting the Muslim community. Today it has showed its true colours.

When the EDL marched in Sheffield, largely outnumbered by opposition, they unfurled a banner inciting hate towards Muslims.

The banner had written on it: “Who the f is Allah”, but most notably “Keep calm and hate Muslims”.

According to hate crime helpline named Tell Mama, a formal complaint has been made to South Yorkshire Police.

Britain First offer condolences for some of the dead

The three attacks in France, Tunisia and Kuwait shocked the world yesterday.

And of course, far-right group Britain First attempted to cash in on the news by sharing news links and even a video of deputy leader Jayda Fransen expressing condolences.

Screengrab from Britain First/Facebook.

The caption along with the video mentioned the attacks in Tunisia and France, but absolutely nothing about the attack in Kuwait – when innocent Muslims were killed whilst praying in a mosque. Over 100 people were also injured.

Even in the video no mention was made to Kuwait.

Maybe because Muslims were the victims?

Britain First share fake quote of Vladimir Putin

Far-right hate group Britain First has a history of misleading the public, and they have done it again by sharing a fake quote of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

No record of said quote

According to Hoax-Slayer (as well as Snopes), this is part of a widely circulated message that claims in a 2013 speech to the Duma, Russian President Vladimir Putin advised Russian minorities that they should adapt to Russian culture if they wish to live in the country and that, if they prefer Sharia Law, then they should go somewhere else to live.

However, there is NO RECORD of Putin making such a speech nor are there any credible news reports about the Russian President’s supposed words.

Britain First have yet again deceived people. And this wouldn't be the first time!

Further examples of Britain First lies

1. Britain First shares fake Islamic scholar quote
2. Britain First make up fake story to slander Muslim
3. Britain First share ‘true’ Ayatollah quote to spread hate

EDL also share plane crash rumours to pedal hate

After news emerged of a pilot bringing down a plane and killing 150 people, the Islamophobia network is doing its best to try and target Islam, by turning the co-pilot into a Muslim.

Facebook pages belonging to the English Defence League, the ‘Main London Page’ and the ‘Yorkshire Doncaster Division’ were among the many far-right pages that shared stories of the co-pilot Andreas Lubitz being a “convert to Islam”.

Hate group Britain First also shared the story, but the group came under scrutiny by its own supporters and lost a lot of respect.

No evidence yet to suggest Lubitz was a convert to Islam

All that is being alleged is that the pilot required treatment for depression, and was recommended regular psychological assessment.

The BBC also reported that prosecutors say there is no evidence of a political or religious motive for his actions.

Sources that were first to circulate rumours that Lubitz was supposedly a “convert to Islam” all seem to be anti-Muslim ones that are irrationally jumping to conclusions with no confirmations.

It is beyond disgusting how at the time of tragedy, these far-right hate groups are using the crash for their own political goals and spreading unconfirmed rumours they take as ‘news’.

Further reading:

1. The Evidence That the Germanwings Copilot Was Muslim Is Sketchy as Hell

EDL division shares fake Islamic scholar quote

We all know the English Defence League (EDL) is on its knees. Yet the dozen members who think high of themselves still update their unpopular Facebook pages to stir hate.

This week, we wrote about how hate group Britain First shared an image of an Islamic scholar named Dr Zakir Naik, which quoted him saying something he didn’t even say.

Well, the Yorkshire EDL Leeds Division has regurgitated that very same image to its followers!

The truth - The quote was never said

Dr Zakir Naik never said what is said in this image. An obvious Twitter troll using his name wrote it, but brainless hate sites picked it up and passed it off as the truth in an effort to ridicule Muslims.

The UK’s far-right network constantly proves itself stupid.

We cannot count the amount of posts on this blog that have exposed lies they have shared.

Britain First make up fake story to slander Muslim

Hate group Britain First often likes to deceive people on social media, by making up lies and even disrespecting the dead as we documented here.

The group have attempted to slander a Muslim man they claim attacked the leader, by posting up an image of him claiming he is an ‘Islamist’ and was involved in ‘Muslim patrols’.

They said you “couldn’t make it up”... but this is exactly what they did.

The truth – It wasn’t a ‘Muslim patrol’

The image was in fact stolen from the Derby Telegraph who had reported on concerned residents who tried to deter sex workers and drug dealers from doing business near their homes.

The group of people in the image were in fact trying to do good in their community. The police even said that they had “no issues” with the group and had “no problems”.

Britain First were so low that in an attempt to cover themselves, they cut the caption of the image that read “Community members are holding nightly peaceful protests to try rid the area of kerb-crawling, prostitution and drug dealing.”

Source: Derby Telegraph.

In another report, the same man in the image helped drag off a violent drunk off a policeman.

Another Britain First lie exposed.

Britain First shares fake Islamic scholar quote

On 11 February, far-right hate group Britain First shared a supposed quote from a famous Islamic scholar Dr Zakir Naik.

It stupidly said: “I call for an immediate ban on the movie ‘Gravity’ as it shows ‘Earth’ to be spherical, which is against the Quran, & thus insulting to muslims.”

Of course, hateful remarks on Islam and the Muslim community in general issued in the comments by Britain First supporters.

The truth behind the quote – Zakir Naik never said it

The quote was never said by Zakir Naik. The quote was actually said on a fake Twitter account set up in his name and then this was regurgitated on far-right anti-Muslim sites and pages.

Zakir Naik’s appearances and speeches are also well-documented, and he is never found saying the words he said in that image. Rather he is documented to have said the complete opposite.

This is yet another example of Britain First deceiving people just to get measly Likes and Shares so it can promote its brainless cause.

Britain First disrespect Muslim veteran’s funeral

Britain First have shamed themselves once again for disrespecting a WW2 veteran’s funeral.

In an attempt to incite hate, Britain First posted up an image of Muslims praying outside and wrote a caption reading: “MEANWHILE IN BIRMINGHAM….”.

As Britain First had intended to stoke fear and outrage, some supporters were quick to call for death, including suggestions to bomb the innocent people with “napalm bombs” and “grenades”, as shown by screenshots below.

The truth behind the image

The image was in fact stolen from the Birmingham Mail who wrote a story last month.

It had reported on the funeral of Sufi Muhammed Abdullah Khan, a mosque founder who had served in the British Indian Army in WW2.

Called an “inspirational man,” he came to Birmingham in 1962 and worked for the community. The image was just outside the mosque where mourners prayed for him.

But Britain First showed everyone that they have no respect for veterans or the dead.

It’s not the first time Britain First have disrespected a veteran. They also photoshopped one veteran and he reported them for slander but then they removed the image to cover their tracks.

Britain First cry babies are the only ones offended by flags

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Far-right hate group Britain First regularly complain about people (particularly foreigners) being offended by flags, as countless repetitive click-bait posts would suggest.

But Britain First don’t realise that no-one is being stopped from flying flags, and no-one seems to be offended by them (even the group fly them in demonstrations with no problem).

Recently it was Pakistan day, and Rochdale Council decided to fly the Pakistani flag in solidarity just for the day.

But Britain First cry babies were the only ones who were offended by a flag. They posted up a link to a story to incite hate saying: “ROCHDALE COUNCIL FLIES THE PAKISTANI FLAG! AGAIN!”.

Some supporters showed their true colours by using racial slurs, and some even sent Rochdale Council messages of abuse on social media.

Intolerance and hypocrisy from Britain First yet again.

Britain First supporters glorify Islamic State bombing of innocents

Britain First claims to fight ‘terrorists, hate preachers and extremists’. But its leaders and supporters don’t realise the hate group is feeding extremism itself.

Britain First today (21 March 2015) posted up a BBC story that reported that Islamic State (IS) terrorists carried out suicide bombings on two mosques in the Yemen.

The devastating attacks killed at least 137 people and injured over 300 innocent people.

But disturbing comments were left by Britain First supporters who seemed to find the murder of innocents acceptable by IS terrorists.

Here are some support comments we found on the post, which is further proof that groups like Britain First are feeding extremism in the country.

Britain First have no respect for veterans and this is proof

Far right hate group Britain First came under fire worldwide for posting up an image of a Navy veteran holding up a photoshopped sign.

The Yorkshire Standard reported that the group posted up a FAKE image of a Muslim man holding up a sign that read: “Boycott bigotry and kill all non Muslims”.

The original image was of Dawud Walid who was taking part in a anti-racism rally, as shown below.

He is a Navy veteran who has served in the United States Navy and earned two United States Navy & Marine Corp Achievement medals.

But sick Britain First edited and shared the photoshopped image to over 600,000 people on Facebook and it was additionally circulated over 2000 times.

When the news story published by the YS got popular, Britain First removed the image out of fear because they knew people had found out what they had done.

Mr Walid said he reported Britain First to the UK authorities for defamation and slander.

Another piece of proof that Britain First has no respect for veterans is when the leader of the group was recorded by a veteran collecting money for Help for Heroes in a charity scam.

Read about it here.

Britain First share ‘true’ Ayatollah quote to spread hate

We have documented how many far-right groups and organisations have passed off information purporting it to be true when it was actually false, made-up, or just fabricated.

Britain First is now also on our list.

They shared a supposed quote from Ayatollah Khomeini, claiming he said that: “A man can have sexual pleasure from a child as young as a baby. However, he should not penetrate vaginally, but sodomising the child is acceptable...”

Before we go further it is important to note that Khomeini was an Iranian leader, and is not the ‘current leader of Iran’ as Britain First wrote. He died in 1989.

So moving on, as we are sceptics, we did some research on the quote in question. It is claimed that it came from the ‘fourth edition’ of his book Tahrirolvasyleh (also known as Tahrir al Wasilah).

But we found out that there is actually little proof that this was ever said.

On forums, some critics said that the ‘fourth volume’ mentioned as reference doesn’t exist, or that the quotes given were deliberate mistranslations or forgeries (the book was supposedly translated from Arabic to Farsi too).

What we do know is that the quotes started circulating on the web. And the only thing that we find on the net are unsourced quotes, which makes it hard for anyone to confirm it was true. There are no page copies and no PDFs of the book in question.

Yet, Britain First claimed this was a ‘true quote’ to all their supporters.

Note: You may also like to read our other articles that expose various right-wing groups and sites who have tried deliberately manipulating, or making up information, to further their cause. Please find links below.

Further reading:

1. Islamophobes And EDL LIE About Pregnant Flag-Flyer
2. Muslim Horse Rape Story EXPOSED
3. EDL Share FAKE ‘Muslims Celebrate Boston Bombing’ Story

Britain First radicalises public with post likely to be untrue

In a previous article (here), we examined how far-right UK group Britain First shared a quote supposedly made by Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini that claimed he said that: “A man can have sexual pleasure from a child as young as a baby...”

After research, we concluded that there is no evidence this quote ever existed, even though Britain First admins irrationally came to the conclusion it was a ‘true quote’.

But because Britain First said it was true, gullible Britain First supporters (and those who are not) immediately had their emotions stirred.

Without checking whether what Britain First posted was true, people voiced outrage and some even went to the lengths of posting up comments some may find extreme. It seems they were directed at mainly those of the Muslim faith.

Here are some disturbing ones we found on the Facebook page.

This is yet another example of how groups such as Britain First are feeding extremism.