Nutcase preacher Terry Jones to visit Britain at invite of the Racist English Defense League

I don't hate Muslims, I love them as long as they're Christians

The American nutcase pastor who intended to hold a “Burn the Koran day” but who claims he isn’t against Muslims, is contemplating visiting Britain. At the same time, the British government is contemplating refusing him entry.

First off, I should make it clear that I am completely against the British state banning this nutcase from entering the country. His name is Terry Jones, not the Terry Jones of Monty Python fame although he could be a Monty Python character as zany as he is. The difference, though, is he isn't preaching comedy.

But what gets me is that this ineffectual right wing nutcase should get any press at all. We might mention that there has been, up until today anyway, a three day, multi racial and solid strike of prisoners in Georgia against their oppressive and inhuman conditions that has received almost no coverage in the US mass media or on the BBC, which has an American affiliate.(see previous blogs)

We love Muslims too

The fascistic nutcase Pastor Jones has been invited to Britain by the English Defense League (EDL) another very friendly pro Muslim group that is not against Islam. On hearing of the possibility that the British government is considering banning him the Reverend Jones. (anyone can call themselves reverend by the way) says he is interested in coming but will speak against "radical Islam", not "all Islam".

The problem is that “all Islam” considers the Koran as their holy book and the word of god whether you are a “radical” Islamist or a “moderate” Islamist. Equally, “all” Christians feel the same way about the Bible, it is their holy book and the word of God. I don't believe in any of that stuff, but if a person who is not against all Christians but wanted to have a "burn the Bible day" was in town, it might tend to unite the "radical" Christians with the "moderate" ones.

I wrote in a previous blog about the prison strike in Georgia. This is a very important development, not only because the US has more people in prison than any country in the world and the justice system in the US is inherently racist, but because this is a multi-racial strike. The prisons in the US are racially segregated as this suits the bosses and makes it more difficult for prisoners to unite against them. The Georgia strike is a threat to this.

The loony preacher from Florida, who runs a church with about fifty members in it gets a mention on the BBC and in the press throughout the US and the world. Hell, I’ve belonged to radical organizations with more than fifty members in them. But we called not for a war against Islam or people of color or gays, but against the bosses, against capitalists and against their rotten system, against the so-called free market, so we never got a mention. Huge strikes of workers have often gotten no mention in the media. Reverend Jones must have some pull at CNN.

I love good Muslims

The EDL, a racist English nationalist organization, says that they are inviting Mr. Jones to England so he can "speak out against the evils of Islam". The nutcase Jones says that he wants to come to England and speak "on harmony, on the subject that Muslims are welcome in our country".

Jones says that he has no problems with Muslims, even when he’s burning the Koran I’m sure, except when they “want to make our country their country” and “when they go on the street... and they call for the death of the UK, for the death of Israel, for the death of America.”

Alright, fair enough; but what about the Israelis? They talk about Palestinians like they’re dogs? No, even worse than dogs, not even animals. And, the very rev pastor sir, what about the US and what it is doing in the Middle east and Afghanistan? Could US foreign policy not be seen as anti-Muslim? Especially the bias towards Israel which most Americans are not so sure about in detail because we have the most censored news in the western democracies.

I am opposed to inviting the loony pastor to Britain but I am also opposed to the state keeping him out. There will be some demos organized if he goes there and that is how we should stop him. The English Defense League is a fascist, racist organization that doesn’t fool anyone. The difference between the US and the UK is that you can’t wander around with a NAZI flag in the UK and openly say you’re a NAZI because the second world war is still a little too close. So they call themselves the “national” this or the “national “ that. The “English” defense this or the “English” defense that. Like the racists here in the US, they are against immigrants but are too cowardly to take on the real thieves and wasters, the British capitalist class, the people who look more like them, a superficial point of unity if there ever was one.

But the most revealing detail is that this nutcase preacher with a church of 50 members (on a good night) gets worldwide press and coverage from the BBC itself when a strike of prisoners, black, white, Latino, united in their struggle and under the most oppressive conditions in Georgia US doesn’t warrant a mention.

It’s simple really. The preacher is expressing an ideology that George Bush, Hilary Clinton, Warren Buffet and Barak Obama agree with and the prisoners are not.

That should be a lesson to all of us.