Roger is right, however, in that a lot of what Brons said is not too dissimilar to what one might hear from the British far-Left, some of whom are as anti-America and anti-Israel as the far-Right.

In terms of the existence or not of Al Qaida, I do believe it’s more than just a loose collection of extremists across the globe. I think there is some direction from Bin Laden and al-Zawahiri, both of whom are probably holed up in the mountains of western Pakistan.

If Osama and his core group are in fact holed up in a remote mountain cave somewhere in Pakistan with all the modern means of surveillance available to a great power dedicated to locating them they can hardly be much direct communication with external cells.

And AQ’s MO does not require an evil mastermind issuing detailed directives – all it needs are groups of like-minded fanatics willing to blow themselves up in its name wherever they happen to live.

Brons may be a racist and fascist but he’s clearly not incapable of reading the newspapers and surfing the internet and in this case is just twisting the received wisdom to support his anti-American agenda (which in this case is pretty indistinguishable from the left’s anti-Americanism).

How this relates to the BNP’s anti-Muslim agenda is another thing – however his and Griffin’s past dealings with the likes of Colonel Gadhafi and Louis Farrakhan suggest that this is no more than skin-deep and that if it wasn’t for our having a large coloured Muslim population to demonise they’d be much happier chanting ‘We Are All Hizbollah Now’ outside the Israeli embassy.