“Johnson was widely criticised by senior Tories after his remarks in the Telegraph, with demands for an apology, including from the then party chairman, Brandon Lewis. The Tell Mama monitoring group said they had led to a 375% increase in anti-Muslim attacks and incidents of abuse. Nevertheless, Johnson has consistently refused to apologise.”

“The Tell Mama monitoring group said they had led to a 375% increase in anti-Muslim attacks and incidents of abuse.” How do they know that? This is a case of post hoc ergo propter hoc — after B, therefore caused by B. The alleged anti-Muslim attacks happened after Johnson’s supposed “Islamophobic” remarks, but unless the perpetrators cited Johnson in explaining what they were doing, the connection is imaginary.

Tell MAMA is “a discredited ‘anti-Islamophobia’ group that lost government funding in 2013 after exaggerating statistics to further their cause.”

Britain is, of course, finished.

“Boris Johnson says sorry for ‘hurt’ caused by Tory Islamophobia,” by Haroon Siddique, Guardian, November 27, 2019: