{"id":7936,"date":"2019-08-13T14:51:35","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T14:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/7936-new-ukip-leader-condemned-for-spiteful-islamophobia\/"},"modified":"2019-08-13T14:51:35","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T14:51:35","slug":"new-ukip-leader-condemned-for-spiteful-islamophobia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/7936-new-ukip-leader-condemned-for-spiteful-islamophobia\/","title":{"rendered":"New Ukip leader condemned for &#8216;Spiteful Islamophobia&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.16px;\">The newly-elected leader of the UK Independence Party (Ukip) has been condemned for &#8220;Spiteful Islamophobia\u201d after footage emerged of him arguing it should be illegal to<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>The newly-elected leader of the UK Independence Party (Ukip) has been condemned for &#8220;Spiteful Islamophobia\u201d after footage emerged of him arguing it should be illegal to publicly distribute the Quran in the UK and that some British towns are no-go areas for non-Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Ukip members at hustings, Richard Braine also claimed that British Islam has particular problems with bigamy and welfare abuse, and referred to the jailed far-right anti-Islam activist Tommy Robinson as a \u201cpolitical prisoner\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Braine, a former chair of Ukip\u2019s west London branch, was previously relatively unknown outside the party but won more than half the votes in a four-way leadership ballot.<\/p>\n<p>Ukip\u2019s national executive had hoped the successor to Gerard Batten would move the party on from Batten\u2019s increasingly far-right, anti-Islam views. 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