The Boris Johnson burqa scandal is very silly

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A silly scandal has now engulfed former British foreign secretary Boris Johnson. Johnson is under fire for a recent column in the Telegraph, in which he wrote that those who wear burqas “look like letter boxes.”

Accused of Islamophobia, the Conservative Party member of Parliament and favorite to succeed Theresa May as Prime Minister, is refusing to apologize. After all, he was arguing that European countries should stop passing laws that ban the burqa.

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