Griffin admires Amir Khan?

In the Wikipedia article on Nick Griffin it is stated that he admires the Muslim professional boxer, of Pakistani ethnicity, Amir Khan.  The following is a link to the (2009) authority on which the statement is based: Inside Lines: How 'Nasty Nick' boxed clever to land his political punches.

Why should Griffin have admired such an individual?  Could it be that by praising Khan's boxing Griffin hoped that the political enemies of ethnonationalism, including the "mainstream" media, would give him an easy ride?  If that was the reason, then Griffin ought to understand by now that his "cunning plan" has not worked.

On the other hand, as John Tyndall perceptively pointed out in an article in Spearhead: while failing to win a single extra vote, such ploys by Griffin have a tendency to demoralize the genuine ethnonationalists within the British National Party.  Such statements by Griffin ("salt in the soup", etc) have encouraged them to leave the party in despair and disgust.  However, such statements by Griffin have also actually attracted all sorts of civic "nationalist" careerists and opportunists to join, or to rejoin, the BNP.  These people erroneously believe that this kind of populism, as they might term it, will produce electoral dividends.  When such dividends fail to materialize, as in last year's elections, for example, they tend to believe that yet more policy dilution is the answer.  And so the sickly spiral of concession proceeds downwards, on its way towards the complete abandonment of principle and its final destination: moral surrender, bankruptcy and dissolution.

Instead of winning through, by converting the electorate and even our political opponents to our beliefs by the cogency of our argument, the policy trimmers operate on the principle of "If you can't beat them, join them." What genius!

Perhaps it was Khan's respect for our laws that caused Griffin to commend him as a role model for Muslim youth, if indeed he did, as the article in the Indepenedent claims.

The following is an extract from the Wikipedia article on Khan, entitled "Amir Khan (boxer)."

Motoring offences and incidents

On 23 October 2007, Khan was convicted of careless driving at Bolton Crown Court and given a six-month driving ban and a £1000 fine. The conviction related to an incident that occurred on 2 March 2006 in the centre of Bolton, when Khan's car hit and broke the leg of Geoffrey Hatton, a pedestrian who was using a pelican crossing while Khan was travelling at 47 mph in a 30 mph zone and overtaking in the wrong lane.[51] He was cleared of dangerous driving but charged with the lesser offence of careless driving[52] and the pedestrian received an interim payment of £40,000.[53] Geoffrey Hatton never fully recovered from the incident and died soon afterwards with Khan passing on his sympathies.[54] Khan was also summoned to appear in court in Rochdale on 26 October 2007, accused of travelling in excess of 140 mph on the M62 motorway on 31 December 2006. He failed to appear and the case was adjourned to 2 November 2007, with the District Judge warning that he would issue an arrest warrant if the accused did not appear by then. He was also charged with not producing his driving licence and insurance certificate.[55] On 7 January 2008 Khan was fined £1000 and banned for 42 days for the speeding offence.[56] [Emphasis mine, AE].

On 12 July 2009, Khan was once again involved in a motoring incident, this time a collision with a young cyclist. However, no action will be taken against Khan after police concluded that he was not to blame for the incident in Moor Lane following interviews with a number of witnesses.[57]