UK's BNP - Racist party or not - they deserve more respect than given to muslim criminals by the MSM

I fail to understand how or why the so-called democratic society of UK keeps targeting and physically assaulting members of the BNP. In the EU elections, after the party won 2 seats the BNP leader was about to give a speech when a violent group of people started pelting him with eggs and calling him a racist. Is BNP not a legal party? And, check out this story here where an innocent man who was visiting a cathedral to pray for his dead mother was thrown out because he was suspected of being a BNP member. here