Source: The New York Times
By Sameer Rahim
Mr. Rahim is a writer and editor at Prospect magazine.
The threat of anti-Muslim bigotry in Britain has been growing, and some politicians from the governing Conservative Party have been encouraging it.
In a newspaper column in August, Boris Johnson, the former Conservative foreign secretary — who is chummy with Steve Bannon and fancies himself an upper-class English version of President Trump — compared Muslim women who wear face veils to “bank robbers” and “letter boxes.”
Shaun Bailey, a politician from the Conservative Party, who has been chosen as its candidate for London’s mayoral election, took 13 years to offer a conditional apology for writing in a 2005 pamphlet that the effect of celebrating Muslim and Hindu festivals is to “rob Britain of its community” without which “we slip into a crime-riddled cesspool.”
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