Thread by @faizashaheen

Solidarity to @DawnButlerBrent
I've just written a complaint to @joswinson about the local @LibDems candidate in Chingford and Woodford Green who is engaging in a dog whistle Islamophobic campaign against me. #Islamophobia

https://twitter.com/dawnbutlerbrent/status/1184035089572945921

This morning I received the below from the Lib Dem Chingford and Woodford Green parliamentary candidate.

I have never heard from Mr Seeff before, and his first correspondence is to try and highlight my Muslim identity and bracket me off with the behaviour of an organisation I have nothing to do with - indeed I’ve never heard of them, why would I have?

Has he sent a public letter to the local Conservative MP, Iain Duncan Smith, asking him if he agrees with Boris Johnson’s comments on Muslim women? Why is he singling me out on this issue? 🤔

As he says, there’s lots that we probably disagree on,why is he choosing this issue to debate publicly? Wouldn’t it make more sense to talk about the economy or cuts to public services given this is something Lib Dems supported and I didn’t? After all I do run a policy think tank

Interestingly, I never received an email from Mr Seeff to offer solidarity when we were dealing with an Islamophobic Tory councillor a few months ago.
Also, the local Labour Party has knocked on thousands of doors in recent months and no one has ever mentioned the IHRC!!!

This letter is shameful & in the current climate this is a dangerous campaign to run.
To all the people who are planning to use my identity against me in the GE campaign, you’re wasting your time because it will be firmly rejected by the residents in Chingford & Woodford Green.