The Sun newspaper’s resident idiot Kelvin MacKenzie gets even more ridiculous than usual in his column today.

MacKenzie wants to know why a Channel 4 reporter was allowed to report on the Nice terror attacks because she is… er, Muslim.

No, that’s not a joke.

Apparently, because Fatima Manji at C4 is Muslim and wears a hijab, he think it was not “appropriate” for Channel 4 to have her report on the attacks.

Would the C4 editor have used a Hindu to report on the carnage at the Golden Temple of Amritsar? Of course not.

Would the station have used an Orthodox Jew to cover the Israeli-Palestine conflict? Of course not.

Does this mean MacKenzie thinks its inappropriate for British journalists to report on conflicts that involve the UK?

Should white American reports be barred from reporting on neo-Nazi attacks in the west?

He goes on to say:

The people of Nice, and the people of France, would view a foreign reporter wearing a hijab in these tense times as massively provocative.

We suspect they have a lot more sense than the Sun’s resident idiot.

The Sun tweeted out the piece this morning and, after it attracted angry reactions, quickly deleted it (we saved the screenshot, above)

Journalists and MPs were not impressed

https://twitter.com/wesstreeting/status/754949349407358976

Why did The Sun pose such a silly question about a colleague's regular job? #journalism #islam https://t.co/h1P1K7943Y — Miriam Cosic (@miriamcosic) July 18, 2016

what an absolutely extraordinary thing for a newspaper to tweet https://t.co/ncndHHfHTt — Tom Chivers (@TomChivers) July 18, 2016

what the fuck is this racist garbage https://t.co/dWDErg8xtT — Jon Stone (@joncstone) July 18, 2016

Disgusting Islamophobic rant by Kelvin Mackenzie in @TheSun complaining about Fatima Manji wearing a hijab on C4 https://t.co/CwcJqBdvTK — Daniel Wickham (@DanielWickham93) July 18, 2016

UPDATE: Channel 4 released this statement tonight, saying it is possibe religious or racial incitement

Statement from Channel 4 News following Kelvin MacKenzie’s comments in today's Sun on our correspondent @fatimamanji pic.twitter.com/oXKjE8MPkx — Hayley Barlow (@Hayley_Barlow) July 18, 2016

It’s about time MacKenzie gave up his brand of journalism and did something useful with his life