{"id":8879,"date":"2014-05-05T11:30:18","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T11:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=8879"},"modified":"2014-05-05T13:32:53","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T13:32:53","slug":"tory-activist-every-single-muslim-should-be-expelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/tory-activist-every-single-muslim-should-be-expelled\/","title":{"rendered":"Tory activist: \u201cEvery single Muslim should be expelled\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Stephen Lees, a long-term Conservative activist, has tweeted that all Muslims should be expelled from Britain,\u00a0and all mosques demolished.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">His Tweet came a few minutes after he tweeted a link to a Telegraph article entitled \u201cHead teachers raise \u2018serious concerns\u2019 over Islamic school take-over\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Mr Lees describes himself on Twitter first and foremost as a Tory. His blog site reveals that he has been involved with the party for decades, first delivering leaflets for the Conservatives aged eleven.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">He went on to become Secretary of the Coulsdon South Conservatives at the tender age of 17, and, as one of the youngest branch officers in the country, was introduced to Margaret Thatcher at the 1975 Conservative Party Conference. He boasted on Twitter that he has been canvassing in Coulsdon for over 40 years.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>Every single Muslim should be expelled from this country \u2014 not deported \u2014 expelled, and every mosque demolished.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Stephen Lees (@StephenLees4) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StephenLees4\/statuses\/462367061080285184\">May 2, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DonnaInSussex\">@DonnaInSussex<\/a> Indeed I am a Tory, working for the Party since 1969. So why split the Tory vote and let Labour in?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Stephen Lees (@StephenLees4) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StephenLees4\/statuses\/462372646089666563\">May 2, 2014<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>When challenged as to whether his comment was made in earnest, Mr Lees responded \u201cI never say anything I don\u2019t mean\u201d, and appeared relaxed about Muslims being killed for being Muslim:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DonnaInSussex\">@DonnaInSussex<\/a> I never say anything I don\u2019t mean. The races and cultures of the world must compete with each other. The strongest will &gt;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Stephen Lees (@StephenLees4) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StephenLees4\/statuses\/462387868070334464\">May 3, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\" data-conversation=\"none\"><p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DonnaInSussex\">@DonnaInSussex<\/a> &lt; emerge and drive the rest to extinction. That is as it should be.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Stephen Lees (@StephenLees4) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StephenLees4\/statuses\/462388114594754560\">May 3, 2014<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DonnaInSussex\">@DonnaInSussex<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OliverCooper\">@OliverCooper<\/a> Are you talking about English converts or wogs who just happen to have been born here? There\u2019s a big difference<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Stephen Lees (@StephenLees4) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StephenLees4\/statuses\/462389384739061760\">May 3, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The National Chairman of the Young Conservatives, Oliver Cooper, took to Twitter to rebut Mr Lees\u2019 statement, calling his position \u201cabsurd\u201d and \u201cprofoundly un-British\u201d. But it remains to be seen whether the Conservative Party will expel Mr Lees from within their ranks. If they don\u2019t, we must conclude that they are institutionally racist.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE<\/strong>: He\u2019s still at it!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DonnaInSussex\">@DonnaInSussex<\/a> The fact that there are &#8220;British Muslims&#8221; is an historical anomaly, created by the 1947 British Nationality Act.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Stephen Lees (@StephenLees4) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StephenLees4\/statuses\/462404576675897344\">May 3, 2014<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\" data-conversation=\"none\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mikebloke2014\">@Mikebloke2014<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DonnaInSussex\">@DonnaInSussex<\/a> If you&#8217;re an English convert to Islam you are mentally ill and should seek help, old boy.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Stephen Lees (@StephenLees4) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StephenLees4\/statuses\/462645462877880320\">May 3, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ukipdaily.com\/tory-activist-every-single-muslim-expelled\/#prettyPhoto\">UKIP Daily\u00a0<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Lees, a long-term Conservative activist, has tweeted that all Muslims should be expelled from Britain,\u00a0and all mosques demolished. His Tweet came a few minutes after he tweeted a link to a Telegraph article entitled \u201cHead teachers raise \u2018serious concerns\u2019 over Islamic school take-over\u201d. Mr Lees describes himself on Twitter first and foremost as a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[660,666,201,545,163,659,278,314],"class_list":["post-8879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-islamic-research","tag-anti-islam","tag-conservative","tag-islamophobia","tag-racist","tag-ticker","tag-tory","tag-uk","tag-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8879"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8886,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8879\/revisions\/8886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}