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Vile leader of fascist group targeting asylum seekers denies he’s racist and claims: ‘We have hundreds of black members’
A SCOTS fascist banned from Hungary for targeting asylum seekers claims that the Knights Templar group he belongs to are not racist – and have hundreds of black and Asian members.
Jim Dowson, former secondin-command of the British National Party, was kicked out of the country last week.
Dowson was a major player in a Hungarian right-wing movement who aim to halt refugees coming into the country using armed militias.
Now, he has claimed his Knights Templar International (KTI) group are open to all.
He said: “The Knights Templar International rejects all forms of racism. We have hundreds of black members and Asians.”
Asked to put the Record in touch with members from ethnic minorities, Dowson refused.
Dowson, from Airdrie, has links to loyalist paramilitaries and is an anti-abortion militant.
Ex-BNP leader Nick Griffin – a close ally of Dowson’s – has also been banned form Hungary. But Dowson maintains his activities with KTI are not racist. He said: “It even says on the website that we reject racism. We even have Filipinos who are members.”
Dowson earlier claimed to have split with the far right Britain First group over their sickening “mosque invasions” in 2015.
They claimed to be carrying out a “Christian crusade” after barging into mosques in Glasgow and Cumbernauld.
Last year, Dowson and Griffin travelled to St Petersburg in Russia for a far-right rally.
Dowson also appeared at the KTI Hungarian Border Mission and had meetings with banned Hungarian neo-Nazi group Magyar Onvedelmi Mozgalom.
Last week, a Hungarian cabinet office spokesman said: “James Dowson is an unwanted individual in Hungary who has been banned from the country by the immigration and asylum office.
“The authority also issued a prohibition of entry and residence order against him. Immigration measures have been conducted on the recommendation of the counter-terrorism centre.”
KTI want sympathisers to settle in Hungary, where prime minister Viktor Orban has an anti-immigrant stance.