{"id":4915,"date":"2010-11-02T15:20:40","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T15:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2010\/11\/02\/british-sikhs-warned-of-edl-and-bnp-support\/"},"modified":"2010-11-02T15:20:40","modified_gmt":"2010-11-02T15:20:40","slug":"british-sikhs-warned-of-edl-and-bnp-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2010\/11\/02\/british-sikhs-warned-of-edl-and-bnp-support\/","title":{"rendered":"British Sikhs warned of EDL and BNP support"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Groups are using \u2018divide and rule\u2019 tactics to recruit \u2018mis-guided Sikh youth&#8217;<\/h3>\n<div><strong>BRITISH Sikhs supporting the British National Party and the English Defence League have been warned they could be in line as the groups\u2019 next target.<\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The warning came as Unite Against Fascism and the Indian Workers Association launched a joint statement condemning the groups.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Balwindar Singh Rana, spokesperson for UAF said the EDL were using Sikh youths to promote disharmony amongst the Asian communities. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cThe EDL are trying to use the well known tactics of \u2018Divide and Rule\u2019 by recruiting mis-guided Sikh youth to their cause,\u201d he said. \u201cThey pretend to be only against the Muslims but they are a racist organisation with very sinister aims.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>He added: \u201cThe Sikh youth have to realise that today it\u2019s the Muslims and tomorrow it will be all of us, Black and Asian, Hindu and Sikh.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Members of UAF and IWA visited Gurdwaras and Mandirs in Southall this weekend urging community leaders to add their names to the statement.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Mr Rana added the aim of the EDL was to \u201cprovoke race riots and make black and Asian people scapegoats for all current economic problems.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Groups are using \u2018divide and rule\u2019 tactics to recruit \u2018mis-guided Sikh youth&#8217; BRITISH Sikhs supporting the British National Party and the English Defence League have been warned they could be in line as the groups\u2019 next target. &#13; The warning came as Unite Against Fascism and the Indian Workers Association launched a joint statement condemning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}