20 November 2013

Ex-UKIP leader Lord Pearson warns of Islamist threat

UK Muslim communities are home to "thousands of potential home-grown terrorists", former UK Independence Party leader Lord Pearson has warned.

Such people "hate us with frightening religious fervour", he said during a parliamentary debate on Islam.

Sharia law was "running de facto in our land" and calls for violence were not simply coming from a "few extremists".

But faith minister Baroness Warsi said Lord Pearson was either "ignorant" or attempting to "distort" views of Islam. [BBC] Read more