{"id":8474,"date":"2018-08-08T13:48:10","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T12:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=8474"},"modified":"2018-08-08T13:48:10","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T12:48:10","slug":"johnson-faces-firestorm-over-islamophobic-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/johnson-faces-firestorm-over-islamophobic-remarks\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnson faces firestorm over Islamophobic remarks"},"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=\"Boris\" width=\"294\" height=\"256\" 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: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/>Former British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson is coming under fire after making Islamophobic remarks targeting Muslim women wearing burqas.<br \/>\nJohnson is facing calls to apologize after he said, in an opinion piece published in Monday\u2019s Daily Telegraph, that Muslim women wearing burqas look like \u201cletter boxes\u201d and compared them to \u201cbank robbers.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cBoris Johnson\u2019s latest racist insults cannot be laughed off, like they often are,\u201d said Naz Shah, the Labour Party\u2019s shadow equalities minister.<br \/>\n\u201cSaying Muslim women look like letterboxes, comparing them to bank robbers and describing Islam as a \u2018problem\u2019 was a calculated attack and published in a national newspaper,\u201d she added.<br \/>\n\u201cTheresa May must condemn this blatant Islamophobia and Boris Johnson must apologize,\u201d said Shah.<br \/>\nBlasting the comments, Labour\u2019s Tottenham MP David Lammy accused Johnson of \u201cfanning the flames of Islamophobia.\u201d<br \/>\nHe wrote on Twitter: \u201cMuslim women are having their burkas pulled off by thugs in our streets &amp; Boris Johnson&#8217;s response is to mock them for \u2018looking like letter boxes.\u2019 Our pound-shop Donald Trump is fanning the flames of Islamophobia to propel his grubby electoral ambitions.\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\/johnson-faces-firestorm-over-islamophobic-remarks\/\" 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>Former British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson is coming under fire after making Islamophobic remarks targeting Muslim women wearing burqas. Johnson is facing calls to apologize after he said, in an opinion piece published in Monday\u2019s Daily Telegraph, that Muslim women wearing burqas look like \u201cletter boxes\u201d and compared them to \u201cbank robbers.\u201d \u201cBoris Johnson\u2019s latest &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,9],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8474"}],"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=8474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8475,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8474\/revisions\/8475"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}