THREE Scottish Tories have been named by the Muslim Council of Britain in a complaint about the party’s alleged problem with Islamophobia.
Election candidates Ryan Houghton, Flora Scarabello and Stephen Johnston are identified in the dossier along with more than 300 other activists, councillors, MPs and advisers.
The MCB have sent it to the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) asking them “to launch an investigation into the Conservative Party over a potential breach in its obligations under the Equality Act 2010.”
As revealed by The National, Houghton, who was the party’s candidate in Aberdeen South, claimed that Muslims were having big families in a bid to create “Eurabia”, and that Islam’s core teaching was one of world domination.
He confirmed his view that “Islam is more violent, from verses from the Qur’an itself, from watching lecture by Islamic scholars etc.”
Though he was suspended and is under investigation, he still sits on the Tory group in Aberdeen City Council.
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Scarabello was the candidate last year in Glasgow Central. She was suspended for using “anti-Muslim language”.
Johnston, who was the candidate for Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East, was accused of calling for the immigration system to exclude “Muslim invaders” and “Muslims and Africans” to be “resettled” in other countries.
Three of the party’s MPs are also named in the report. They include Karl McCartney, the MP for Lincoln, who retweeted Islamophobic and antisemitic posts by Tommy Robinson and Katie Hopkins.
The secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain, Harun Khan, which represents 500 Muslim groups, mosques and charities, said: “Two years ago, we estimated that there were cases of Islamophobia being identified in the party on a weekly basis.
“Now, with over 300 documented incidents, it appears our estimation was too low.”
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