- Saturday, April 20, 2024
By: Keerthi Mohan
THE Conservative Party is under immense pressure to take action against two of its serving councillors who made anti-Islam comments.
While one councillor compared Islam to Nazi Germany, another said that “every 11-year-old girl” should be “frightened of Muslim.”
The party has said that the duo — John Moss and Nick Coultish — can keep their positions while their remarks are investigated.
Mohammed Amin, chairman of the Conservative Muslim Forum, said he had “lost confidence in the Conservative party’s disciplinary processes when the promotion of anti-Muslim hatred is the subject.”
Naz Shah, shadow minister of state for women and equalities, said failing to take swift action against councillors who made Islamophobic comments shows “how institutional the problem is within the party.”
“Despite the Conservative party denying an independent inquiry on the matter, failing to suspend councillors and even allowing those expressing such hate back into the party through the back door, there has been widespread neglect from the media to hold them to account for this issue,” she was quoted as saying.
According to Buzzfeed, Moss, a Tory councillor in Waltham Forest, said that “every 11-year-old girl” should be scared of Islam when responding to a tweet about Islamophobia.
He also tweeted: “I reject Islam’s barbarism, its sexism, its racism, its homophobia,” and sent tweets to numerous prominent Muslims asking them to “denounce those bits of the Quran they don’t live by”.
Meanwhile, East Riding Tory councillor Nick Coultish compared the number of Muslims in the UK to the German bombing campaign during the second world war.
“Britain withstood the Blitz and got up, had a cup of tea and got on with rebuilding the next day. We will stand against the tide of Islam,” he tweeted.
