Ukip’s acting leader has defended labelling Islam a “death cult”.
Gerard Batten, who took the reins of the chaos-stricken party after Henry Bolton was ousted as leader on Saturday, claimed that a “significant minority” of Muslims are extremists who want to be martyred and insisted Islam “glorifies death”.
The London MEP said Muslims migrating to the UK should reject the “dark age ideologies which many of them bring with them” through a literalist interpretation of the Koran.
In the wake of the Westminster terror attack in 2017, Batten posted a blog in which he called Islam a “death cult”.
“The terrorist attack in Westminster was just the latest in a long line of atrocities committed internationally in the name of Islam,” he wrote.
Speaking on Sky News’s Sunday With Niall Paterson, Batten defended his comments, saying: “What I wrote there about Islam is factually and historically true.
“Anybody that cares to look at the history of Islam over the past 1,400 years will see that that is true.” [The Huffington Post UK] Read more
