{"id":48652,"date":"2018-12-22T12:26:20","date_gmt":"2018-12-22T12:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=48652"},"modified":"2018-12-22T12:26:20","modified_gmt":"2018-12-22T12:26:20","slug":"muslim-group-blasts-boris-johnson-whitewash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/muslim-group-blasts-boris-johnson-whitewash\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslim group blasts Boris Johnson whitewash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-2726\" src=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Boris.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"696\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Boris.jpg 400w, https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Boris-300x261.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>British Muslims&#8217; top umbrella group on Friday blasted the ruling Conservatives\u2019 whitewash of Islamophobic remarks by Boris Johnson, the former foreign secretary.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After examining an August column for the Daily Telegraph in which Johnson compared Muslim women who wear the niqab and burka to \u201cletterboxes and bank robbers,\u201d a Tory panel ruled his slurs \u201crespectful and tolerant\u201d and defended his right to use \u201csatire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Calling the comments \u201cdehumanising,\u201d the Muslim Council of Britain &#8212; an umbrella group for some 500 mosques, schools, and associations &#8212; said that far from being \u201csatire,\u201d Johnson\u2019s \u201cdenigrating\u201d column had inspired Islamophobic attacks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cReports at the time suggested that his Telegraph column had real-world consequences, directly leading to \u2018copycat\u2019 verbal assaults against Muslim women and the unleashing of hate and Islamophobia from Conservative supporters,\u201d said a statement by the council.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cMr Johnson is not a satirist \u2013 he is a Member of Parliament, and as such has a responsibility to set the tone for the rest of the UK to follow,\u201d added the statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIn this case, it is far-right Islamophobes who have been empowered to follow his rhetoric.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In August senior Conservative MPs and the prime minister herself demanded an apology from Johnson, but none was given.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This June the council called on the Conservatives to launch an internal probe of multiple allegations of Islamophobia within its ranks.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/muslim-group-blasts-boris-johnson-whitewash\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Muslims&#8217; top umbrella group on Friday blasted the ruling Conservatives\u2019 whitewash of Islamophobic remarks by Boris Johnson, the former foreign secretary. 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