Michael Fabricant MP accused of 'Islamophobia' over crude tweet of Sadiq Khan & a pig
 

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• Conservative MP Michael Fabricant has been accused of Islamophobia after tweeting a crude photoshopped image of Sadiq Khan.
• It depicted the London mayor, who is a Muslim, as a giant balloon having sex with a giant balloon pig.
• Labour MPs are now calling for Fabricant's suspension from the Conservative Party.
• The politician claims he didn't see Khan's face in the image.

Fabricant subsequently deleted the tweet, and claims he didn't see Sadiq Khan's face in the image before sharing it. "I deleted it as soon as I saw Sadiq Khan’s face on the picture," he said in a tweet. I did not see it was him. He may be a useless Mayor, but he’s a nice guy whom I worked with when he was in Parliament."

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The guy has since explained it was a retweet error and it just goes to show how dangerous twitter when you dont concentrate on what you are doing!

Lichfield MP Mr Fabricant said: "I did not see the detail on my small iPhone."

"I am genuinely sorry if it caused anyone offence and I am disappointed in the person who sent it to me in the first place."

Saw him on TV last night, his wig looks preposterous lol

The joke? Meh, not arsed. Is Khan bothered? Any reaction from him?

Why does he, Boris and trump all have the same terrible hair?

Yes he was asked about it this morning on LBC and he said he has not seen it but had been told and he sounded a bit upset as they have previous

Similarly to what I thought of Corbyn not looking closely at an image, I say the same about this guy. I don't believe for a moment he didnt know what he was doing

Tbh idk how a religious Muslim or Jew would see that. Plus Fabricant is not taken seriously even by his own party. :shrug:

I think if you're gonna make a post aimed at a Muslim which involves a pig then it's islamophobic just like it would be inappropriate if it was aimed at a jew or if it involved a cow and was aimed at a Hindu.

While the picture could be anyone when looked at in a glance on a phone screen, who did he think it was? The words right above the image have Sadiq's name in them, so even if he's claiming to think it was just a random guy from the picture, surely the caption would give him a clue?

The Pig
should be in a Hot Dog
LT.

No different to someone joking on here about trump grabbing the queens pussy..
Imo of course.

He went too far in recirculating this and the original architect went too far in depicting a pig. There would have been nothing wrong in depicting Kahn as a baby a la the Trump balloon.

Except that BOTH are ****ing childish, of course.

Islamophobia - another made up word to create drama.

or to shut down criticism of this superstition

Yep - definitely both!

Oh only made up words you agree with are real?...

Or is it because it is so prevalent among people you support and aimed at people you don't like?

Who knew that Fabric could be so cruel!?:shocked:

All it means us fear of Islam / fear of Muslims... Which is clearly a very real thing :think:

I know what it was intended to mean by the PC brigade - but it is still a made up word by those trying to label something they disapprove of as ‘hate’. Their agendas are always crystal clear.

Blow it up into some huge ‘hate crime’ to intimidate and close down opposition to large scale immigration. They aren’t as high-brow as they like to think - just totally transparent!

You’ve been really struggling with dictionary-defined words this week.

Things can be words even if you dislike them.

Stomping your feet, crossing your arms and shouting NO doesnt change anything.

Obviously Michael was a dickhead, obviously it wasnt an accident, him pretending that it was at least shows that he cares about his stupidness a tiny bit I suppose.

We have words like Homophobia and Transphobia, so why not Islamophobia?

I know it won't make me popular on here but I would probably be labelled under Islamophobic myself as I have a lot of serious issues with the Religion's "morals" I will treat individuals of the Religion fine if they're nice to me, but I do intensely dislike the Religion, but then I have a lot of issues with Christianity aswell.

I apologize for going off on a wild tangent btw.:hugesmile:

you chose to be a musllim

therefore islamophobia does not really exist alongside such things as racism and homophobia

So why not Cristianophobia, Catholicophobia or Hinduophobia etc. It’s the deliberate use of the word ‘phobia’ to try to suggest any issues with Islam in particular are ‘irrational’. They are trying to imply it is on par with a ‘clinical diagnosis!

Apparently any criticism of that particular religion can only be an ‘irrational’ one. It is so contrived - and downright disingenuous! Not buying it for a minute!

Christophobia and Indophobia are used to describe those things.

Gynophobia is a fear or dislike of women. Is that a made up word with no real meaning?