(LBC) A Tory former minister has sparked a fresh Islamophobia row after claiming there are “no-go areas” in parts of London and Birmingham.
Paul Scully, the MP for Sutton and Cheam, made the comments during a conversation about Islamophobic sentiment within the Conservative party following comments by MP Lee Anderson.
Speaking about regions in London and Birmingham, the former minister for the capital said there were some “no-go areas” where Muslim people live.
“The point I am trying to make is if you look at parts of Tower Hamlets, for example, where there are no-go areas,” he told the BBC.
“Parts of Birmingham, Sparkhill, where there are no-go areas, mainly because of doctrine, mainly because of people using, abusing in many ways, their religion because it is not the doctrine of Islam, to espouse what some of these people are saying.”
