(December 9, 2019 at 7:22 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Well, if the veil pre-dates Islam, then Johnson isn't being anti-Muslim, he's being anti-Arab.
And I really, REALLY doubt the claim that many Muslim women go veiled because 'they want to appear modest'. I think it's much more likely that they go veiled because their patriarchal society is mind-wobblingly insecure.
Boru
There is a large possibility in my perspective that he "uses" whatever cause to win more votes; his apology after seeing that xenophobic behavior isn't really winning. In other words he is trying to win both camps right now: the Muslims -via his apology- and the xenophobes via his xenophobic statements.
He's belly dancing over the contradictions.