Reuters - Police probe BNP documentary

Police in Yorkshire will consider today what action to take against members of the British National Party after a TV documentary showed members of the far-right party calling Islam "wicked" and confessing to assaults on Muslims. The BBC expose brought furious reactions from Muslims and the government, and undercut the BNP's efforts to cultivate a more moderate image. It may also lead to criminal prosecutions. In secretly recorded footage in the northern town of Keighley, BNP leader Nick Griffin -- who recently hosted French National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen -- rails against the Koran and acknowledges his views are legally dangerous. "That's the way that this wicked, vicious faith has expanded through a handful of cranky lunatics about 1,300 years ago until it's now sweeping country after country," he says at one point. He tells his audience they should stand up for the party or "they (Muslims) will do for someone in your family. "I will get seven years if I said that outside," he adds. Other footage in "The Secret Agent" shows one BNP member expressing a wish to blow up mosques with a rocket launcher and to machine-gun worshippers with "about a million bullets." Another member tells how he put dog faeces through an Asian shop's letterbox, while a third describes how he beat up a Muslim man. "I'm kicking away ... it was fantastic," he says. siehe auch: Father-of-Four Aiming to Reshape BNP Image, BNP Branded 'Nazi Thugs', BNP 'mole' refuses to be moved by threats