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[Saqib Bhatti MP @bhatti_saqib]

Very scary situation for Muslims in Scotland - my thoughts and prayers are with those that are injured and their families.

Those that use violence and extremism, whoever they are, can never be allowed to succeed.

[Oliver Kamm @OliverKamm]

Another absurd intervention by Burnham. The triple lock should never have been in Labour’s manifesto and ought to be broken. And if pensioners receive taxable income in excess of the personal allowance, they should of course pay tax on it. Why load the burden on younger people?

[Ayesha Ijaz Khan @ayeshaijazkhan]

Looks like you never understood Islam properly but love to sit in judgement on other Muslims. If you had your way, Muslims would have no representation whatsoever in politics and become even more marginalised and discriminated against. Makes me wonder whose side you are on.

[Saqib Bhatti MP @bhatti_saqib]

Hi Richard this is you last week with Phil Tierney who among other things has said Muslims like me shouldn’t hold public office and all mosques should be closed.

Cllr Gethen turned up to one of my constituency events even though she isn’t a constituent and clearly was there to cause trouble. I had a private conversation with her and challenged her on her support and endorsement for Tierney. In fact I think I said “you need to sort the racism in your ranks.”
She doubled down on her support for Tierney and then left.

I had a number of SEND events that day with my constituents and will continue to do so in the future.

I will go toe to toe with any Reform politician and will not stop standing up for parents and children with SEND and I won’t shy away from standing up to racism.

Perhaps now, Richard, you can find your voice and finally condemn the racism by Tierney … although given your performance on Kuenssberg I won’t hold my breath

https://t.co/1brcWcarBe

[Saqib Bhatti MP @bhatti_saqib]

This is Tice with Phil Tierney last week. Tierney was elected on Friday.

Reform in Solihull cheered when he was elected despite him being under investigation for saying all mosques should be closed, Muslims shouldn’t hold public office, being supportive of Tommy Robinson and sharing Britain First posts.

https://t.co/1brcWcarBe

[Fergus Butler-Gallie @_F_B_G_]

Modern Britain in a nutshell as a lanyarded crony tries to talk down a long term public servant who’s trying to say goodbye with dignity and then scrolls through her phone when he does so.

[Ali @AliFazel12]

@RmSalih Might have something to do with the fact that both yours and the 5Pillars account do absolutely nothing to promote unity and harmony between Muslims and Britain and so you’re just not taken very seriously. There are many more rational voices the govt would probs rather listen to.

[Albie @albieamankona]

The @ukhomeoffice is a joke & so are all those who called for Kanye west to be cancelled for antisemitism & not @ValentinaForUSA for Islamophobia. You are all a disgrace, don’t complain about “two-tier” anything again, either Kanye & Valentina should be allowed in or both banned.

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

The negotiator of the ceasefire, Shehbaz Sharif, clearly says here in his announcement of the peace agreement that it includes Lebanon. Netanyahu went out of his way today to destroy the ceasefire by launching an unprecedented assault on Tyre & Beirut, killing at 254+ innocent civilians. Yet again, Israel drags the US & the wider region towards conflict & away from peace.

[Andy Street @andy4wm]

Back in 2017 we said we’d get this done. Plenty doubted it.

But once the funding was secured in 2021, it was never in doubt.

Good to see it finally delivered, thanks to everyone who played a part to bring trains back to the Camp Hill line after more than 80 years.

[Ali @AliFazel12]

@RichParkerLab It’s laughable seeing you trying to take credit for this - not much else he can claim to have achieved so you’re riding on Andy Street’s coattails

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

It was not just Trump who revealed himself yesterday. The total silence from @Keir_Starmer and his apology for a cabinet in the face of Trump's genocidal threat to Iran, even as they took immediate concrete action to ban Kanye West/Ye, reveals deep and profoundly troubling double standards. As we saw repeatedly with Gaza, the mass slaughter of Muslims really doesn't bother to our government; now even the threat of complete civilisational erasure is not worth a passing comment. Starmer just shrugged and let the B-52s take off with all their bombs primed and ready to drop on civilian targets. A total and irredeemable disgrace.

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

Entirely misses the point that it's a death penalty that only applies to one ethnicity, the Palestinians, a people who are illegally occupied, living under military rule and subject to dispossession, constant violence and ethnic cleansing

[Tim Stanley @timothy_stanley]

Erm, women cannot be clerics in my Church.

None of this makes sense #32.

[Ali @AliFazel12]

Sad to see @JamesCleverly, once the future of a progressive Conservative Party, choosing to peddle the ludicrous claims that segregated prayer is somehow about Muslim women being ‘second class citizens’. Looking physically uncomfortable trying to spout absolute rubbish #bbclaurak

[I Choose Birmingham @ichoosemag]

This guy did it. Not the other fella.

[Ali @AliFazel12]

How far we’ve allowed this party to fall… Astonishing ignorance. For centuries religions of all kinds participate in segregated forms of worship. To spin this as an issue of minority women being pushed aside is absurd and plain stupid. What a mess.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Kemi Badenoch disaster of an interview criticising the Ramadan Tent Project's Iftar at Trafalgar Square is something to behold 😅

@RamadanTent did it without objection under 4 Conservative PMs:

2015 under David Cameron
2019 under Theresa May
2022 under Boris Johnson
2024 under Rishi Sunak

Gary Gibbon, "What is your objection to the Muslim prayer that happened in Trafalgar square"

Kemi Badenoch, "As a woman from an ethnic minority background, I do not like to see women shoved to the side, segregated, in an event that is not welcoming to others"

"Trafalgar square is a public space which we use for inclusive events"

Gary Gibbon, "But the event was welcoming. It was inclusive. It was inviting other people to come and see what the moment was like"

*Badenoch's eye lashes flash faster than a butterfly chasing nectar*

Kemi Badenoch, "A segregated event like that, I do not think the Mayor should be party political"

Gary Gibbon, "So gender segregation is your objection?"

Kemi Badenoch, "Yes, but more than that"

Gary Gibbon, "But lots of religions have gender segregation"

Kemi Badenoch, "Not in public spaces. This is not about freedom of religion"

Gary Gibbon, "The Ramadan Tent project organised events at the Victoria & Albert museum, in front of the Royal Albert Hall, under Conservative administrations"

"They've been developing this public way of showing their faith and inviting people to come and observe it"

Kemi Badenoch, "Without knowing the details of those events, I'm not making a comment"

"I'm taking a specific event about that type of mass prayer, segregating women in the middle of Trafalgar square"

"We believe in religious freedom, that doesn't mean any religious practice in every single religion"

"Sometimes the authorities need to set guard rails and say actually this is too much"

[David Henig 🇺🇦 @DavidHenigUK]

Just a few generations ago most of my family were slaughtered because politicians in Germany said similar things about Jews that are now said about Muslims in many countries. Attempts to whip up a war on islam are pure evil and need to be called out as such.