https://leftfootforward.org/2017/10/a-tory-mp-invited-an-islamophobic-extremist-to-parliament-anti-racism-groups-are-outraged/ Left Foot Forward is the home for UK progressives. We provide evidence-based analysis on British politics, news and policy. Mon, 12 Aug 2019 20:59:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.5 https://leftfootforward.org/2017/10/a-tory-mp-invited-an-islamophobic-extremist-to-parliament-anti-racism-groups-are-outraged/#comment-974791 Mon, 12 Aug 2019 20:59:43 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=124294#comment-974791 Tommy Robinson is not an extremist. He is just trying to stop England from becoming an Islamic State. You may not have a problem with people being stoned to death under Sharia Law just for being gay or for daring to leave Islam, but I refuse to let my country end up like Afghanistan. The reason Tommy set up the EDL is because his hometown of Luton is a hotbed of Islamic extremism, and he witnessed extremists literally recruiting people for their cause in the street. The police completely ignored what was happening and someone had to do something about it so Tommy did. These extremists murdered Tommy’s best friend just because he was Jewish, some of his other friends have been violently assaulted by extremist Muslims, with some of those friends being stabbed, his cousin was gang-raped by one of the Muslim Pakistani grooming gangs when she was still a child. However, he doesn’t hate all Muslims; he has four Muslim friends and he is still nice to his sister even though she converted to Islam. He also showed a lot of compassion for a schizophrenic Muslim man who threatened to stab his children. He even told the police that the man shouldn’t be punished but should receive psychiatric help instead. On his Facebook page Tommy told people not to physically attack Muslims and stated that “if you think it is funny to throw pork at Muslim women or physically attack them, you are scum”.

]]> https://leftfootforward.org/2017/10/a-tory-mp-invited-an-islamophobic-extremist-to-parliament-anti-racism-groups-are-outraged/#comment-959840 Tue, 16 Apr 2019 14:05:53 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=124294#comment-959840 […] on the Facebook of Mr Rufolo includes the extremist Hindu nationalist Tapan Ghosh, who once claimed that “backwardsness is the most ‘powerful’ weapon of Islam,” was invited into parliament by […]

]]> https://leftfootforward.org/2017/10/a-tory-mp-invited-an-islamophobic-extremist-to-parliament-anti-racism-groups-are-outraged/#comment-936520 Sun, 29 Oct 2017 05:11:07 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=124294#comment-936520 Don’t these MPs and their like ever do the most basic searches on Google never mind asking the security services for an opinion? One down side of this affair is that it gives oxygen to TellMAMA which at one point had its Home Office money cut off for faking figures about Islamophobic incidents.

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