.@Michael_Heaver just cannot help himself from trying to define racism. Please send help and dictionaries to @WestmonsterUK. 
The Macpherson report defines racism from a victim's point of view. This is important here because there is clearly an unequal power distribution between Johnson, Eton & Oxford-educated, former Foreign Sec, and Muslim women, who are some of the most vulnerable in our society.
Muslim women are the most economically disadvantaged people in the UK - they are three times more likely to be unemployed jobseekers. To mock their clothes and compare them to bank robbers shows a complete disdain for this and their other disadvantages. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-370413…
Anyone is free to have an opinion on what constitutes racism/Islamophobia, but it takes staggering arrogance for a man who has been part of a movement whipping up hatred against minorities and immigrants to start pronouncing on racism/Islamophobia.
To refer to race is not in itself racist. It's racist to suggest one group's opinions are more valid because that group is superior, i.e. the construct that justified colonialism. It's not racist to suggest one group's opinions are more valid b/c of lived experience of prejudice.
