Former UK Foreign Secretary Johnson Refuses To Apologize For Islamaphobic Comments
(World News Austria)

Boris Johnson said he was standing by his remarks on Tuesday after the Conservative Party chairman told him to apologize for commenting that Muslim women wearing burkas `look like letter boxes` and comparing them to `bank robbers,` according to BBC News. Even though Johnson`s comments have been called Islamaphobic and `deliberately provocative,` but a source close to the former foreign minister said he thinks it`s ridiculous his views are being attacked. `We must not fall into the trap of shutting down the debate on difficult issues,` the source said to BBC News. `We have to call it out. If we fail to speak up for liberal values then we are simply yielding ground to reactionaries and...