{"id":6600,"date":"2016-05-11T22:35:52","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T21:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=6600"},"modified":"2016-05-11T22:35:52","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T21:35:52","slug":"defence-secretary-apologises-to-suliman-gani-over-isis-slur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/defence-secretary-apologises-to-suliman-gani-over-isis-slur\/","title":{"rendered":"Defence Secretary apologises to Suliman Gani over ISIS slur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6601 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Michal-Fallon.jpg\" alt=\"Michal Fallon\" width=\"276\" height=\"183\" \/>The Defence Secretary Michal Fallon, who called Shaykh Suliman Gani an ISIS supporter during a radio interview, has said sorry for the \u201cinadvertent error\u201d after the imam launched legal action against him.<br \/>\nPressure is now mounting on David Cameron to follow suit after he also accused Mr Gani of backing ISIS, although Cameron\u2019s statement was made in parliament where he is protected by privilege.<br \/>\nThe imam has made it clear on many occasions that he opposes ISIS.<br \/>\nLast month Cameron said about Sadiq Khan: \u201cSuliman Gani, the Honourable Member for Tooting has appeared on a platform with him nine times \u2013 this man supports IS. Anyone can make a mistake about who they appear on a platform with, we\u2019re not always responsible for what our political opponents say, but if you do it time after time after time it is right to question your judgement.\u201d<br \/>\nMr Fallon made a similar claim on Radio 4, but his spokesman said he had been repeating comments made by Andrew Neil during a TV debate.<br \/>\nThe spokesman told the Mirror: \u201cMichael made clear he was quoting a claim by Andrew Neil on a BBC Mayoral debate programme. He was unaware of the clarification and apology that the BBC had issued on Neil\u2019s claim.<br \/>\n\u201cHad he been aware, he would not of course have quoted him and as soon he became aware he put the record straight. He naturally apologises for this inadvertent error.\u201d<br \/>\nMr Gani, a father of six, says he fears for his family\u2019s safety after the accusations made by the Prime Minister and the Defence Secretary.<br \/>\nHe says he has been subjected to verbal abuse by strangers in the street, who called him a \u201cterrorist supporter.\u201d<\/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\/defence-secretary-apologises-to-suliman-gani-over-isis-slur\/\" 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>The Defence Secretary Michal Fallon, who called Shaykh Suliman Gani an ISIS supporter during a radio interview, has said sorry for the \u201cinadvertent error\u201d after the imam launched legal action against him. Pressure is now mounting on David Cameron to follow suit after he also accused Mr Gani of backing ISIS, although Cameron\u2019s statement was &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6602,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6600\/revisions\/6602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}