https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... SApp_Other
This is just as horrific as the stories of anti-Semitism in Labour, and now we even get the farce of playing one form of discrimination off against another:
So what is it about politics - seemingly local level politics in particular (but certainly not exclusively) - that attracts such rampant bigotry from every side? And how can it be combatted? Johnson has just weaseled out of a full investigation of Islamophobia in the party in favour of a nebulous general look at prejudice. Labour are being told they haven’t done nearly enough.Among the other councillors and former councillors whose racist or Islamophobic messages were seen by the Guardian, the councillor Roger Taylor from Calderdale, West Yorkshire, questioned why prominent British Muslim columnist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown was in the UK. In response to a post about the journalist hitting back at claims she is anti-British, Taylor wrote last October: “Why is she even in the country?”
When approached for comment, Taylor said he would be binning the Guardian’s email. “We are in an election and you are raising this to deflect from the antisemites in the Labour party,” he said.