A number of anti-Muslim rants were sent from Katie Hopkins’ Twitter account last night including one that called Palestinians “filthy rodents.”
The former Apprentice contestant and Sun columnist, 39, also demanded that Israel “restart the bombing campaign” on Gaza after two Israelis were stabbed to death in separate knife attacks in Tel Aviv yesterday.
The messages have sparked demands for Hopkins to be arrested. 5Pillarz editor Roshan Muhammed Salih has already reported Hopkins to the Met Police and Islamophobia monitoring organisation Tell Mama UK has vowed to do the same.
The tweets from her account, which has over 244,000 followers and where she refers to herself as “telling it like it is”, have been branded Islamophobic and started at around 9pm last night.
A number were about the ongoing crisis in the Middle East and the series of stabbings apparently carried out by an Arab man on two Israelis who eventually died yesterday.
Tweets from Ms Hopkins’ account said: ‘Palestinians busy knifing Israelis. 2 state solution my a***. Filthy rodents burrowing beneath Israel. Time to restart the bombing campaign.”
“Arab terrorists fired rockets from schools and hospitals. They brought down Israeli fire on to their own people. See behind the pictures.”
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Referring to the Channel 4 show 24 Hours in Police Custody last night a message said: “Father beats his daughter with an iron bar. But he is a good Muslim, prays in his cell & attends the mosque. So that’s all happy days then.”
“The police are singing from the same hymn sheet. Mohammed is going DAAAAAAAN. Allahu Akbar.”
This was based on last night’s show where a father pleaded guilty to attacking his daughter with an iron, leading to a three-year jail sentence
One follower replied: “Oh my, please Katie that’s racist,” which she retweeted.
Dozens accused her of inciting racial hatred and demanded the police take action.
One Twitter follower asked if she was anti-Muslim and tweets from her account said: “Allah doesn’t guide me. He is not a dog and I am not blind. I see that all religion is evil.”
In August Muslim organisation MEND asked people to write to The Sun newspaper to urge it to sack Hopkins after she tweeted what many consider to be racist and Islamophobic statements.
MEND – which encourages British Muslims to engage in politics and media – said Hopkins’ latest outburst has hit a new low and offended thousands of British Muslims.
In tweets to her nearly 200,000 followers Hopkins insulted the Prophet Muhammad (saw), said she suspected Muslims think it is ok to “rape young white girls,” and said the Rotherham child abuse scandal was about race and “Pakistani rape of white girls.”
Hopkins is one of The Sun’s weekly columnists and former reality TV contestant on The Apprentice and I’m a Celebrity Get Me out of Here. She regularly appears on mainstream TV channels to espouse her views. She has also criticised Ramadan and advocates the banning of the burqa.
