British Holocaust Denier Embarks on Campus Speaking Tour Print E-mail
Written by Carlie Dorshaw   
Friday, 09 November 2007

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Texas A & M students at Griffin's lecture.
On October 25th, British National Party (BNP) chairman Nick Griffin, whom the Southern Poverty Law Center has called “a well-known Holocaust denier and anti-Semite” and whose political party it has called “white supremacist,” spoke at Texas A & M University in the midst of a speaking tour of American campuses. His speech, entitled “The Islamification of Europe,” was delivered at the invitation of a student group, the Aggie Independents, and sparked heated debate on campus.

Griffin spoke about the culture clash between “indigenous Europeans” and Muslim immigrants. He stated that democratic rule is too alien to Muslims for them to fully integrate in European society. Griffin went on to warn that Islam is taking over European culture, politics, and society, citing statistics, the Koran, and the beliefs of his party, which “exists to secure a future for the indigenous peoples of these islands in the North Atlantic.”

Griffin argued on the differences between Europeans and Muslims are causing “white flight” and the expansion of “Eurarbia,” making a case for the closing of European borders, an end of “the welfare state” in Europe, and the need to dispense with political correctness in order to protect the people and culture of native Europe.

The day of the event, Texas A & M’s student newspaper, The Battalion, ran a preview article on the speech. Readers made comments on the papers website such as “This man is a Nazi, a Holocaust denier and a racist and should not be permitted to speak at Texas A & M,” and “Freedom of Speech is not equal to freedom to be heard.”

In his speech, Griffin said he was neither a Holocaust denier nor a racist or anti-Semite. His statements, however, contradicted these claims. Griffin said, “I do not have a problem with Jews; in fact, Jews are better able and more willing to assimilate with European culture than Muslims.”

Preston Wiginton, a political science major at Texas A & M and the organizer of the event, said of Griffin in an e-mail, “He does believe in separation. He has a saying, ‘Friends, but not family.’ I think a Jewish person can understand that. Jews are a pretty tight knit group.”

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