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Lee Anderson was suspended from the Tory party in Parliament on Saturday following comments he made about the Labour Mayor of London Sadiq Khan on Friday while discussing how the Metropolitan Police has handled pro-Palestinian protests in London on GB News.

Interviewed on the channel, which employs him as a presenter, Anderson was asked about a column fellow Tory MP and former Home Secretary Suella Braverman wrote last week, in which she said recent demonstrations in the UK showed Islamists were "in charge" of the country.

Asked about the remarks, Anderson said: "I don'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, and they've got control of Starmer as well."

He later added: "People are just turning up in their thousands, and doing anything they want, and they are laughing at our police. This stems with Khan, he's actually given our capital city away to his mates".

Beradogs wrote: ↑Mon Feb 26, 2024 2:06 pm Seeing as Khan will get re elected primarily due to the Muslim vote isn’t it fair to say they control London? If Tommy Robinson was Mayor and kept on getting elected you would certainly say that the far right controlled London.

Long slender neck wrote: ↑Mon Feb 26, 2024 2:30 pm Is there much Khan can do about protests anyway?

Dunners wrote: ↑Mon Feb 26, 2024 1:45 pm Islamists do not 'control' anything meaningful in the UK.

There's an argument to be made that Islamist movements (like other fascists) will seek to infiltrate and erode the veracity of democratic and/or secularist institutions, but they are thankfully inept at doing this effectively and at scale. They're actually more prone to internal divisions and splinter groups than lefties.

Beradogs wrote: ↑Mon Feb 26, 2024 2:06 pm Seeing as Khan will get re elected primarily due to the Muslim vote isn’t it fair to say they control London? If Tommy Robinson was Mayor and kept on getting elected you would say that the far right controlled London.

ComeOnYouOs wrote: ↑Mon Feb 26, 2024 2:49 pm Anderson is an out and out racist.
He was thrown out of Labour for being a racist, and he's still a racist.

Hoover Attack wrote: ↑Mon Feb 26, 2024 2:35 pm

Dunners wrote: ↑Mon Feb 26, 2024 1:45 pm Islamists do not 'control' anything meaningful in the UK.

There's an argument to be made that Islamist movements (like other fascists) will seek to infiltrate and erode the veracity of democratic and/or secularist institutions, but they are thankfully inept at doing this effectively and at scale. They're actually more prone to internal divisions and splinter groups than lefties.

Are there any other religions who have tried to infiltrate institutions and have they been more successful?

OyinbO wrote: ↑Mon Feb 26, 2024 1:29 pm He's a moronic pub bore stoking division in order to further his own media career.

Dunners wrote: ↑Mon Feb 26, 2024 3:27 pm

Hoover Attack wrote: ↑Mon Feb 26, 2024 2:35 pm

Dunners wrote: ↑Mon Feb 26, 2024 1:45 pm Islamists do not 'control' anything meaningful in the UK.

There's an argument to be made that Islamist movements (like other fascists) will seek to infiltrate and erode the veracity of democratic and/or secularist institutions, but they are thankfully inept at doing this effectively and at scale. They're actually more prone to internal divisions and splinter groups than lefties.

Are there any other religions who have tried to infiltrate institutions and have they been more successful?

You're doing that thing that Maxy used to do, and asking a question to which you already know the answer.

Anyway, it's not about the religion per se. It could be anything. The point is that there are groups formed on ideological grounds which use Islam as the divisible for establishing in-group/out-group dynamics.