Letters: Johnson's burka '˜gaffe' bid to stir up anti-Muslim hysteria

Boris Johnson has been accused of deliberately whipping up anti-Muslim hysteria

Boris Johnson's latest comment attacking Muslims (Scotsman, 7 August) was not a 'gaffe'. It was a strategy of scapegoating and political filth thought up by Trump's strategist Steve Bannon.

Johnson and other senior Brexiteer MPs Jacob Rees Mogg and Michael Gove recently met with Steve Bannon. Bannon is a fanatical nativist. He masterminded Trump’s election to the US Presidency. Johnson is now enacting a ploy thought up by Bannon. They know that Brexit will be a disaster of Biblical proportions. The Brexiteers are seeking to whip-up anti-Muslim hysteria for their own political ends.

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However the self-righteous indignation by Johnston’s fellow Tories and media figures, who claim they are shocked by his statements should be, dismissed with contempt. The blathering of this offensive imbecile expresses only in more concentrated form the perpetual hysteria one hears every day. Johnson is the product of a diseased political environment. Johnson’s attack on Muslims, however, is the latest episode in a campaign which has been ongoing for some 15 years. Since the so-called “war on terror” was declared 15 years ago Muslims have been targeted.