{"id":7261,"date":"2019-03-27T14:40:19","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T14:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/7261-15-suspended-tory-islamophobia-row-councillors-quietly-reinstated\/"},"modified":"2019-03-27T14:40:19","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T14:40:19","slug":"15-suspended-tory-islamophobia-row-councillors-quietly-reinstated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/7261-15-suspended-tory-islamophobia-row-councillors-quietly-reinstated\/","title":{"rendered":"15 suspended Tory Islamophobia row councillors quietly reinstated."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than a dozen Conservative councillors who were suspended over posting Islamophobic or racist content online \u2013 with some describing Saudis as \u201csand peasants\u201d and sharing material comparing Asian people to dogs \u2013 have had their membership quietly reinstated, a Guardian investigation has found.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4>More than a dozen Conservative councillors who were suspended over posting Islamophobic or racist content online \u2013 with some describing Saudis as \u201csand peasants\u201d and sharing material comparing Asian people to dogs \u2013 have had their membership quietly reinstated, a Guardian investigation has found.<\/h4>\n<h4>The chairman of the Conservative Muslim Forum, Mohammed Amin, called on the party to publish a set of formal disciplinary processes after the Guardian found 15 examples of politicians who posted content that was deemed objectionable.<\/h4>\n<h4>The findings come amid growing concerns over the Conservative party\u2019s attitude to reports of Islamophobia in a febrile wider climate, with the number of hate crimes against Muslims reported to have risen by 593% in the week after the attack on two New Zealand mosques.<\/h4>\n<h4>The Labour mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, told the Observer on Sunday that he had been repeatedly subjected to anti-Muslim abuse from the Tory party\u2019s members and supporters.<\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than a dozen Conservative councillors who were suspended over posting Islamophobic or racist content online \u2013 with some describing Saudis as \u201csand peasants\u201d and sharing material comparing Asian people to dogs \u2013 have had their membership quietly reinstated, a Guardian investigation has found. \u00a0 More than a dozen Conservative councillors who were suspended over &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[45,638,209,107],"class_list":["post-7261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-asia","tag-guardian","tag-islamophobia","tag-london"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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