The UK’s governing Conservative Party has suspended ties with one if its politicians after he accused London Mayor Sadiq Khan of being controlled by Islamists, as tensions over the Israel-Hamas
...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...war roil British politics.
The party said on Saturday that Lee Anderson was suspended after he refused to apologize for remarks made about Khan in a television interview on Friday. The action means that Anderson, a deputy chairman of the Conservatives until last month, will sit in parliament as an independent.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and other senior Conservative leaders had come under increasing pressure to reject the comments, which the chairwoman of the opposition Labour Party called "unambiguously racist and Islamophobic."
"Following his refusal to apologize for comments made yesterday, the chief whip has suspended the Conservative whip from Lee Anderson MP," a spokesperson for Tory politician Simon Hart said.
Hart’s chief whip position makes him responsible for internal Conservative Party discipline.
The controversy comes as the Israel-Hamas war fuels tensions in British society. Pro-Paleostinian marches in London have regularly drawn hundreds of thousands of demonstrators against Israel calling for an immediate ceasefire, even as critics describe the events as "antisemitic hate marches." Figures released over the last week show that both anti-Jewish and anti-Moslem incidents have risen sharply since Hamas’s devastating onslaught against Israel on October 7, which sparked the ongoing war, with a recent report finding the former have since surged to record highs.
That anger has spilled over into parliament, where some politicians say they fear for their safety after receiving threats over their positions on the conflict in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
In his interview with GB News, Anderson criticized the police response to pro-Paleostinian demonstrations in London, where on Saturday protesters blocked traffic on the landmark Tower Bridge and shot off flares, leveling the blame on Khan, who was the first Moslem mayor of a Western capital when first elected in 2016.
Anderson said he didn’t "actually believe that the Islamists have got control of our country, but what I do believe is they’ve got control of Khan and they’ve got control of London."
"He’s actually given our capital city away to his mates," added Anderson, the Tory MP for a seat in central England.
Anderson said late Saturday that he understood his comments had put Hart and Sunak in a "difficult position" but stopped short of apologizing.
"I fully accept that they had no option but to suspend the whip in these circumstances," he added.
"However,
there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly...
I will continue to support the government’s efforts to call out extremism in all its forms — be that antisemitism or Islamophobia
...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do...
His remarks prompted criticism from across the political spectrum and Khan flatly rejected the allegations, telling the BBC that all forms of hatred need to be rejected, including antisemitism, Islamophobia and misogyny.
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