Daily Mail
May 19, 2014
A fresh racism row engulfed Ukip tonight after it emerged a candidate described Islam as a ‘totalitarian ideology’ that is ‘against everything modern Britain stands for’.
An email sent by Heino Vockrodt to the London council he wants to be elected to also claimed a row of shopping looked like ‘Helmand Province now’ street and referred to cases where ‘Muslims are grooming children to be sex slaves under the eyes of the authorities’.
Labour condemned the ‘deeply offensive’ views which emerged after repeated attempts by Nigel Farage to stress that Ukip is not a racist party.
Ahead of European and local elections next week, Ukip has sought to draw a line under offensive comments made by some members and candidates.
Sanya-Jeet Thandi, a youth member who was previously put up to defend the party in television interviews, quit this week accusing Mr Farage of playing the race card to win votes.
The latest row centres on comments made in an email by Mr Vockrodt complaining about an alleged planning breach by ‘the Afghan community’ in Brent, north London.
He wrote: ‘Being Muslims, they ignored both refusals and did it anyway.’
He claimed political correctness was preventing the council taking action ‘for fear of being called racists, when, just like in all the other cases where Muslims are grooming children to be sex slaves under the eyes of the authorities, the council does nothing’.
He claimed the neighbourhood was ‘already exploding under the weight of segregation’ and shopkeepers had been ‘squeezed out by Muslims’.
‘The entire parade – once lovely owner/occupier shops – resembles Helmand Province now. Time to call in MI5 and MI6 for sure,’ he added.
‘Islam is a mono-cultural, totalitarian ideology. It is NOT a religion. It is against multi-culturalism and only promotes its own culture. It is against everything modern Britain stands for.’
In the message, sent in the early hours of the morning to the planning enforcement department, he said that while he supported a multi-ethnic society, ‘the only culture applicable to this country is British’ and warned the council not to ignore the ‘winds of change’.