Thread by @miqdaad

Outrageous the Home Secretary defends Douglas Murray as "mainstream"

She is *actively* promoting a man who said objectively racist & extreme things such as “Conditions for Muslims in Europe must be made harder across the board" & who has defended Tommy Robinson

But there's more

https://twitter.com/Haggis_UK/status/1699744665644204494

Douglas Murray says London has become "foreign" because "in 23 of London's 33 boroughs "white Britons" are now in a minority" i.e. being non-white, means you are foreign and can't be British

Is the government view *really* that this is a mainstream view? @Tories4Equality

@Tories4Equality Murray said "less Islam" is a solution to terrorism (whilst talking about Muslims).

Is it *really* a government position that this is a "mainstream" view and not extreme?

https://twitter.com/daily_politics/status/868779901767237634?t=ORhVT2bpRU5pQbw8l66zig&s=19

@Tories4Equality Murray said he doesn't "think Tommy Robinson is a racist", and believes that Tommy Robinson has "never said a racist thing"

Watch the video if you don't believe me


This is not extreme?

@Tories4Equality He said “Conditions for Muslims in Europe must be made harder across the board”, called Islam an "opportunist infection", Muslims a "demographic time bomb" & that mosques should be “pulled down”



This is not extreme, really? This is actually mainstream? web.archive.org/web/2008020113…

Murray praised the far-right in Italy (Salvini said Europe needs rescuing now or it will become an Islamic caliphate), and stood with supporters of Hungary's far-right anti-Muslim & anti-immigrant party Fidesz

Are these also mainstream views?

Caolan Robertson - who interviewed Murray - went further than the video above - and said: "Douglas Murray told me of his admiration for, and friendship with, Tommy Robinson"

bylinetimes.com/2019/11/20/far…

Murray's former colleague described him as "unhinged & truly vile white supremacist, racist anti-Muslim bigot", "thoroughly nasty piece of work full of venom & hatred for Muslims", "perverse & deranged obsession with all things Islam related"?

Read here:
linkedin.com/pulse/brendan-…

Let's not forget his column about the Holocaust memorial.

Apparently this is "mainstream" according to our Home Secretary, and cannot be considered extreme.

https://twitter.com/Samfr/status/1427352379213615110?t=uO2EgXMCZVnwkuhg-wkcDw&s=19

What this thread shows - and there's of course so much more - is that the UK government wants views such as these and those on the far-right, to *not* be treated as extreme.

They want to remove any semblance of consistency in Prevent.

At least it is out in the open.

Of course this comes because Shawcross cited Douglas Murray as being unfairly disparaged in his Prevent review.

Note Shawcross was chosen to review Prevent despite (or perhaps because of) his awful views on Muslims - see here:

https://twitter.com/miqdaad/status/1325030095359275008?t=UR2NrpSRuksuZP-Q851hRQ&s=19

On a side note, it is unclear to me if Shawcross disclosed how Murray was known to him & had helped him on his book, before he published his support for Murray in the Prevent review.