Conservative academic Roger Scruton has been fired as a United Kingdom government adviser for questioning whether Islamophobia is real, stating that George Soros ran an “empire” in Hungary, and suggesting Chinese people were “replicas” of each other.
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When discussing Islamophobia in a short interview with the New Statesman magazine, Scruton referred to it as a word “invented by the Muslim Brotherhood in order to stop discussion of a major issue.” Scruton, 75, was also criticized as racist for disparaging the Chinese Communist regime.
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