Who emboldened this abuser? Years of the Times & Qulliam (siding with “Tommy Robinson”) to make “Muslims are rapists” propaganda. +
“He called Phillips a “virtue signalling rape facilitator”, “abusing her authority and privilege to shut him down like so many British heroes” with “extreme racist language, aimed predominantly towards those from an Asian or Muslim background.” +
This dangerous, entitled, fury wasn’t his invention. He took it from mass circulation newspapers and credible authority figures signalling that British heroes like Tommy were speaking truth. +
This man, with no real influence, goes to prison. Journalists and commentators keep their jobs - and their Islamophobia - never admitting their claims that rape is especially Muslim were false provocations +
and Johnson wants the police to go on charging cannabis users - when they could be investigating rapes. And NHS waiting lists for counselling for survivors get longer.

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