Don't be under any illusion, if it were not for the BNP effect, all of the White victims in the TIMES article below, would still be getting ignored ! And take note of some of the pathetic attempts that have been made to blame western culture / society for these murders.

Focus: A Black and White issue ?
November 12, 2006

We rarely think of whites as victims of race crime, but they suffer more attacks than ethnic minorities, write Mark Macaskill and Brendan Montague

The killing of Kriss Donald, a 15-year-old schoolboy, two years ago was met with a convulsion of horror across all of Britain. Yet everybody, even the boy’s mother, Angela, was quick to reject suggestions that the killing had a racial motive.
This weekend, with three Asian Scots starting life sentences for racially aggravated murder, a reappraisal of Britain’s easy assumptions about racial violence is overdue.

On Wednesday last week, Imran “Baldy” Shahid, 29, his brother Zeeshan “Crazy” Shahid, 28, and 27-year-old Mohammed Faisal Mushtaq were given minimum sentences of 25, 22, and 23 years respectively.

The judge, Lord Uist, told the men, of Pakistani descent, their “premeditated, cold-blooded execution” was “truly an abomination” that had “rightly shocked and appalled the public”. Part of the shock was the fact that a child had been the victim of a deadly attack merely because of the colour of his skin — and he was white.

Home Office figures show that almost half the people murdered in racially motivated attacks are white. Between 1995 and 2004 there were 58 people killed because of the colour of their skin, of which 24 were described as white.

The British Crime Survey for 2004 reveals that 87,000 people who described themselves as black or minority ethnic had been victims of what they believed was a racially motivated crime. They had suffered 49,000 violent attacks, with 4,000 being wounded.

In the same year 92,000 white people said racism was the cause of an attack or crime they had suffered. The number of violent attacks against whites reached 77,000, while the number of white people who reported being wounded was five times the number of black and minority ethnic victims at 20,000.

Cases involving black and minority ethnic victims are widely reported, but there is an almost total absence of stories involving the white victims. Is this because newspapers fear their reports appearing on BNP leaflets, or because the police are less likely to issue appeals for help?

Peter Fahy, the Association of Chief Police Officers’ spokesman for race issues, has said: “The political correctness to discuss these things absolutely does play a factor. A lot of police officers and other professionals feel almost the best thing to do is try and avoid it for fear of being criticised. This is not healthy.”

The rugby player Lee Massey had been drinking with his friends in Northamptonshire when they stumbled into a gang of Iraqi thugs who were looking for a fight.

During the violence that followed, the failed asylum seeker Mohsen Sadiq mowed Lee down after mounting the pavement in his car in what was later described by the appeal judge Sir John Alliott as a “callous and wicked attack”, which took place after the Iraqis were “out looking for someone.”

Three years later, Lee has not fully recovered and suffers memory lapses, while his powers of speech are still affected.
For his mother, Margaret Massey, there is little doubt that the police inquiry was hindered by political correctness because officers feared that reporting a white man had been so brutally attacked by an asylum seeker would further fuel racial tensions following several such brawls in the area.


“The police let 13 members of the gang go free, even though there was evidence,” she said last week. “If our Lee had run over one of the Iraqis he would have been arrested right away and sent to prison for the rest of his life. The police are nervous when white people are attacked.”

Other white victims of violence did not survive. Christopher Yates had been out celebrating a birthday with a group of friends in London and, concerned about their safety, insisted on walking some of the women he was with to a bus stop during a cool November evening last year.

Without warning, the 30-year-old data inputter was viciously assaulted by a gang of drunken Asian men — Sajid Zulfiqar, Zahid Bashir and Imran Maqsood — who stamped on his head, smashing every bone in his face and killing him.

After the brutal murder, Zulfiqar shouted in Urdu: “We have killed the white man — that will teach an Englishman to interfere in Paki business.” Despite this, the three were never convicted for committing a race crime — which would have carried a heavier sentence.

Gavin Hopley, 19, was kicked to death following an attack involving up to eight Asian men in Oldham in February 2003. Six men were convicted of violent disorder and theft offences, but nobody has been convicted of his murder.

An Asian gang was also responsible for the violent killing of 17-year-old Ross Parker, who was savagely stabbed with hunting knives during an attack in Peterborough in 2001. And David Lees, 23, was mowed down during a fight between whites and a gang of Asians in Prestwich, Manchester, only last month.

In the wake of the Donald trial, community leaders have been left casting around for scapegoats. Ashraf Anjum, president of Glasgow’s central mosque, blames the fact that young Asians are turning their backs on the Muslim faith.

“For these people, discos are more appealing. Too many kids are standing around on street corners with nothing to do. ”

Easy access in the West to pornography and to computer games that glorify violence are also blamed, as is a failure to invest in facilities that would give young Asian men something to do.

“It wasn’t Pakistani culture that moulded Kriss Donald’s killers,” says Ayub Khan, chairman of the Multi-Faith Coalition, who lives in Pollokshields and was randomly attacked with a cricket bat by a member of Imran Shahid’s gang. “They fell foul of aspects of western culture such as binge- drinking and womanising.”

Imran Azam, 26, grew up in Glasgow’s West End and sees young Asians growing up in their own world, cut off from white Scotland.

“Pollokshields is segregated. The only time you see a white person is at work. The extent to which you mix with Scottish people is limited,” he says.

For many in Pollokshields, there is a determination that an atrocity such as the killing of Kriss Donald’s will never happen again.

In mosques across the city, Muslim leaders and residents are meeting to identify the younger members of the community who are involved in gang culture. The elders are being bluntly told to take control of their children.

“The method is working slowly,” says Ashref. “It’s harder to influence those people who are more entrenched in gangs, but it is just a matter of time.”

How the killers were cornered in Lahore - and lied to the last

WITHIN days of Kriss Donald’s death, his three killers were abroad, write Ghalam Hasnain in Lahore and Mark Macaskill. Through various routes they met in the Punjabi capital, Lahore.

For months, the men shuttled around cities and towns such as Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Karachi and Toba Tek Singh, staying in hotels and guest houses.

Imran Shahid moved into the Continental hotel in Lahore, where he used cash from his credit card fraud empire back in Glasgow to finance a luxury lifestyle, ordering from room service and buying expensive consumer goods. He used a variety of aliases, including Soprano, after the fictional mob boss on whom he modelled himself. “He demanded a different room with a view of the boulevard,” said Saqlain Bukhari, the hotel manager. “We knew him as ‘fat boy’.”

He also struck up a relationship with the daughter of a grocery shop owner and took her for lunch at the city’s most expensive hotels, until her father discovered his identity and banned her from seeing him.

Back in Britain, informants had passed details of mobile numbers used by the Shahid brothers to the police, and it didn’t take long for Pakistani officers to track them down and arrest them. When police arrived at Shahid’s flat, he tried to bribe detectives and told them Donald and his gang had attacked and raped Muslim girls.

Shahid also claimed that the “infidels” in Britain would kill him if he was handed over. There was evidence that he was planning to escape to Australia on false documents.

His brother Zeeshan and Mohammed Faisal Mushtaq, the third fugitive, were traced to a village near Toba Tek Singh, 150 miles away.

More than a dozen armed police burst into a house owned by Mushtaq’s uncle. The pair were surrounded in a field of sugar cane after jumping 20ft from an upstairs window.

“They said we had no idea what they had been through and offered us money on their credit cards,” said one officer who arrested them. “We handcuffed them and put them in a police vehicle. Their time was up.”

In October 2005, all three men were returned to Britain to face trial.