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Boris Johnson urged to apologise over niqab 'bank robber' commentsFormer British foreign secretary, who also described women in full veil as looking like 'letter boxes', accused of inflaming anti-Muslim hatredSimon HooperMonday 6 August 2018 23:17 UTCBoris Johnson, the former British foreign secretary, was accused of “pandering to the far right†on Monday after comparing women who wear the niqab to bank robbers and letter boxes even as the Conservative Party faced fresh calls to investigate Islamophobia in its ranks.Johnson, who resigned from the government last month, made the comments in a column for the Daily Telegraph newspaper in which he criticised the Danish government over its new law which bans the wearing of the full face veil in public.“It is absolutely ridiculous that people should choose to go around looking like letter boxes,†Johnson wrote. He also described female students turning up at school or university “looking like a bank robber†and described the wearing of the burqa – the veil that fully covers the face - as “oppressiveâ€.Read more at: http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/boris-johnson-urged-apologise-over-niqab-bank-robber-comments-1097606876
Don't do it, Boris.
