The British National Party is opposed to the Islamification of Britain in the same way that Muslim countries would be opposed to the Christianisation of their lands, and bears no animosity to any individual Muslim, BNP deputy press officer John Walker has told an Islamic online news service.

In a statement published on the Islamonline site, Mr Walker said the BNP believes “in keeping Britain an overwhelmingly Christian country. We do not believe Islam should become a dominating religion within our land.

“Would any Muslim country in the world accept Christianity taking over as a dominating religion?

In many Muslim countries, Christians are persecuted and murdered by Muslims for practicing their faith.”

Mr Walker went on to address a number of issues which are important to the debate over Islam in Britain, including the illegal and immoral wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the recent anti-BNP outbursts by the Muslim Council of Britain.

“The British National Party bears no animosity towards individual members of the Muslim faith. There are probably many issues that we as Nationalists agree with the Muslim peoples of the world.

“For example, we have consistently condemned the West’s attacks on Muslim countries such as Iraq and Afghanistan.

“We do not believe that our country should be trying to force Muslim countries to adopt Western systems of democracy by force of arms. Hundreds of thousands of innocent Muslims have been killed by the British and American governments,” Mr Walker said.

“We believe that in Britain, Islam should take issue with the Tory and Labour parties’ bloody policies in the Middle East, with which the British National Party had nothing to do. We see these wars as merely attempts to secure the Middle East oil and protect Israeli interests,” Mr Walker said.

“We believe the Muslim Council of Britain should put its own extremists in order before having the audacity to accuse the British National Party of extremism for merely wishing to put the host Christian population first.

“However we do recognize that British born Muslim extremists have been further radicalised due to British foreign policy in the Middle East and uncontrolled immigration from countries sending radicalized Muslim clerics to preach hate on our land,” Mr Walker said.

His statement was placed in full by Islamonline, which is widely regarded as one of the most popular English-language Muslim websites on the Internet.