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Eugene

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Thu Dec 5, 2019, 10:14 AM Dec 2019

Boris Johnson says sorry for 'any offence caused' by burqa article

Source: The Guardian

Boris Johnson says sorry for 'any offence caused' by burqa article

PM apologises over piece describing Muslim women who wear veil as looking like letterboxes and bank robbers

Rowena Mason Deputy political editor
Thu 5 Dec 2019 12.11 GMT
Last modified on Thu 5 Dec 2019 12.34 GMT

Boris Johnson has apologised “for any offence caused” by his article describing Muslim women who wear a face-covering veil as looking like “letterboxes” and “bank robbers”.

The prime minister was confronted over the issue on ITV’s This Morning by Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby, who said Muslims had been hurt and offended by his remarks.

Johnson replied: “People dig out all sorts of articles … I’ve already said sorry for any offence caused and I say it again.”

The prime minister claimed his words had been taken out of context, and added: “What (the Conservative party) have to do is have an inquiry over xenophobia and prejudice of all kinds.”

The original article written in the Telegraph last year argued the burqa should not be banned even though it was “absolutely ridiculous that people should choose to go around looking like letterboxes”.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/dec/05/boris-johnson-says-sorry-for-any-offence-caused-by-burqa-article
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Boris Johnson says sorry for 'any offence caused' by burqa article (Original Post) Eugene Dec 2019 OP
"absolutely ridiculous that people should choose to go around looking like letterboxes"???? ... marble falls Dec 2019 #1

marble falls

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1. "absolutely ridiculous that people should choose to go around looking like letterboxes"???? ...
Thu Dec 5, 2019, 10:37 AM
Dec 2019

More like “absolutely ridiculous that fat older white males unable to comb their own hair should choose to go around judging anyone else on appearance or fashion sense and not keeping their boorish opines to themselves.”

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