‘Graves of 350,000 to make way for Muslims’

That’s the headline to an Evening Standard story which reports the possible redevelopment of Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park in terms that echo the propaganda of the BNP:  “Officially it would be known as a ‘multi-faith’ cemetery but it is likely that it would principally answer calls for a Muslim graveyard in the largely-Asian East London borough. The local newspaper has been bombarded with letters from historians and nature lovers declaring: ‘There is no way we’ll allow them to dig up our ancestors’.”