Katharine wrote: Fri Sep 20, 2019 3:24 pm
Perhaps had I clicked on it, I might have learnt what I was being invited to join!
When I opened up the CH Forum this morning as a guest, there was a similar invitation to join an organisation claiming to be the Knights Templar. Interestingly, I doubt it would have been because of my browsing history as I use a VPN.
Be warned, this organisation is the Knights Templar International (KTI), a far right group led by an extremist named Jim Dowson, described by The Times as "the invisible man of Britain's far right". As well as his personal support for Donald Trump during the latter's election campaign, KTI has campaigned for the freeing of Tommy Robinson of the BNP, another organisation of which Dowson has previously been a member at the same time campaigning to have the judge that jailed Robinson sacked. He has also been associated with the Orange Order but is now a supporter of Scottish independence, largely owing to his dislike of what he sees as the consequences of immigration in to England. He is Islamophobic, campaigning to ban the Burqa, which is odd as I have never, personally, seen anyone in the UK ever wearing a Burqa (Abaya, Hijab, Niqab even but never a Burqa). He is vehemently anti-abortion. Amusingly he has even been banned from entering the bastion of Eastern European democracy that is Hungary!!
Julian says there is nothing the forum can do about what adverts we see but at least this has brought this section back to politics, albeit politics of the more unpleasant kind.
