
I pi**ed on Kelvin MacKenzie’s apparent ambitions to force anyone who looks a little different off our screens, and I’ll keep doing it." And he has attempted to smear me by suggesting I would sympathise with a terrorist," she wrote. He has attempted to smear half of them further by suggesting they are helpless slaves. "Kelvin MacKenzie has attempted to smear 1.6 billion Muslims in suggesting they are inherently violent.

She said MacKenzie remarks had "Islamophobic sentiments" and spread "ill-informed, irresponsible, and malevolent invective to millions of readers." Manji responded to the comments for the first time on Tuesday in a written piece for The Liverpool Echo. "Was it done to stick one in the eye of the ordinary viewer who looks at the hijab as a sign of the slavery of Muslim women by a male- dominated and clearly violent religion? "Was it appropriate for her to be on camera when there had been yet another shocking slaughter by a Muslim?" asked MacKenzie, a former editor of The Sun. MacKenzie wrote on Monday in The Sun that he could "hardly believe my eyes" when he saw Manji presenting Channel 4 News' studio coverage of the attack in a hijab on Friday last week. It often indicates a user profile.Ĭhannel 4 News presenter Fatima Manji has written a brutal response to former Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie after he wrote a racially charged column questioning why she was allowed to report on the terrorist attack in Nice while wearing a hijab.

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