BNP candidate Sion Owens faces 'Koran burn' charge

[Gerald]

A BNP candidate for next month's Welsh assembly elections has been charged with a public order offence, after police were passed a video appearing to show him burning a copy of the Koran.

Sion Owens, 41, was named as a party candidate for the South Wales West regional list last week.

He is due to appear at Swansea magistrates' court on Monday.

A second BNP election candidate has been arrested in connection with the incident, and released on bail.

A BNP spokesperson said both would still be candidates in the assembly election on 5 May.

On Friday, police were given a video which appeared to show Mr Owens dousing a copy of the Koran with a highly flammable fluid, before setting it alight and watching it burn.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-s...wales-13028793


Note: 10 April 2011 Last updated at 14:33 GMT

The BNP wish to announce that they are not neo nazis and their candidates are not part of C-18 or linked to anything nasty like that.
Whitepower, Whitelaw, death to traitors, no surrender

Didn't this prick get the memo from Griffin before his friend turned the camera on?

[STEED]

BNP=Brainless Nitwit Plonkers.

[Fish In The Water]

Originally Posted by Vendor

On Friday, police were given a video which appeared to show Mr Owens dousing a copy of the Koran with a highly flammable fluid, before setting it alight and watching it burn.

Inflammatory much?

Sorry to say, nothing good can come of this...

[Gerald]

Originally Posted by Fish In The Water

Inflammatory much?

Sorry to say, nothing good can come of this...

Quite right, it is no good in this, but this is an example, around the world burned the flags there are very many similarities in what happened, but I do not support what has happened in this case.

Sorry to say, nothing good can come of this...

But it can.
Yesterday the BNP newsroom were saying it is outrageous, this was simply a response to muslims burning things in protests and nothing was done to those muslims, it demonstrates that there is one law for muslims and another law for everyone else.
Today they are saying this is outrageous, those Muslims only got arrested taken to court and fined when they burnt things in protest, there must be tougher penalties on burning things.

So the good that comes of this is that the BNP ties itself in knots, its clean non racist candidate puts himself in the limelight acting like a prick in a neo nazi T-shirt and for good measure it pulls up a whole rash of his links with sieg heiling, swatstika wearing scumbag criminals in his grubby little corner of the football hooligan world

I would say that is a very good result

[Jimbuna]

What is of greatest concern is the fact some folk will agree with them and cast their vote accordingly.

[STEED]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

What is of greatest concern is the fact some folk will agree with them and cast their vote accordingly.

What...The AV Referendum?

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by STEED

What...The AV Referendum?

I was referring to BNP votes in the future mainly....they've already had some limited success in previous elections.

As far as the AV referendum is concerned I have read good things and bad things, dependant on which side of the fence the author sits.

[STEED]

You know what those knuckle dragging apes are like jim....

Where's the BNP candidate? What's this yes and no mean?

[Jimbuna]

Your next BNP candidate perhaps

I was referring to BNP votes in the future mainly....they've already had some limited success in previous elections.

But their limited success has just shown them to be the idiots that they are. Every time the get any sort of local electoral victory their vote subsequently tumbles into oblivion.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Tribesman

But their limited success has just shown them to be the idiots that they are. Every time the get any sort of local electoral victory their vote subsequently tumbles into oblivion.

Oh I agree....but I believe many peoples concerns are that one day they will actually increase they're percentage vote.

[joegrundman]

i have no love for the bnp either - but all he did was burn a book. an easily replaceable book that is in no short supply at that, and now he is arrested.

Assuming the book was his own property, and he did not burn someone else's book, i do not think britain is heading in the right direction if it wishes to say that, specifically, damaging your own copy of the Koran is a criminal offense.

Assuming the book was his own property, and he did not burn someone else's book, i do not think britain is heading in the right direction if it wishes to say that, specifically, damaging your own copy of the Koran is a criminal offense.

If he burnt it in his own property wearing full nazi regalia while shagging a sheep he would have been fine.
However once he chose to share his masterpiece in the public domain things change.

Oh I agree....but I believe many peoples concerns are that one day they will actually increase they're percentage vote.

They have been around in one form or another for well over a hundred years, they constantly find a new "them" to blame all the countries ills on and always hover around with a marginal percentage of the vote, they do regularly increase their percentage of the vote and put themselves more in the public eye.
It is at that point which they manage to destroy their "standing" again and again.
They are brainless idiots who get on a populist wave then demonstrate themselves very publicly as real brainless idiots and lose that populist appeal.