Why are Sharia and Islam beyond criticism? What if Boris Johnson had poked fun at Christian practices? Would he be the subject of a taxpayer-funded report demonizing him then? Is there no one in shattered, staggering, dhimmi Britain who will speak out against and work to end this society-wide suicidal madness?
“British taxpayers’ cash is spent by the EU to fund a ‘ridiculous’ report branding Boris Johnson as a central figure in Islamophobia alongside EDL co-founder Tommy Robinson,” by Abul Taher, The Mail On Sunday, November 2, 2019:
British taxpayers’ cash has been used by the European Union to fund a ‘ludicrous’ report branding Boris Johnson as a central figure in Islamophobia.
Brussels gave £109,000 for the study to a think-tank in Turkey, even though the country is outside the EU. The review placed Mr Johnson alongside far-Right leader Tommy Robinson as ‘central figures in Britain’s Islamophobia network’.
European Islamophobia Report 2018 was published by the Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research, or SETA Foundation, which is linked to Turkish President Erdogan’s Islamist government.
The preface cites Mr Johnson’s suggestion that women who wear the burka look like ‘letterboxes’ or ‘bank robbers’ as one of a number of ‘Islamophobic statements by politicians’ in Europe.
Mr Johnson made the comparison in an article last year defending women’s right to wear the burka, but many Muslims have said they found it offensive.
The SETA report contains papers on anti-Muslim sentiments in 34 European countries. The chapter on the UK was written by Aristotle Kallis, a professor of history at Keele University.
In a sub-section entitled Central Figures In The Islamophobia Network, he said Mr Johnson’s article on the burka promoted and normalised Islamophobia.
Last year Mr Johnson was singled out for a special mention for his burka comments in an ironic ‘award for Islamophobia’ given by the British-based Islamic Human Rights Commission to the Tory party….