article_snippet: Scotland's Ukip leader is today facing calls to resign after Scotland's Ukip leader compared the country’s only Muslim minister to the convicted terrorist Abu Hamza.
article_snippet: Mr Yousaf, the SNP’s Minister for Europe and International Development, said the ‘Islamophobic’ comment was one of the worst insults he had ever received.
article_snippet: The row comes in the same week that party leader Nigel Farage was embroiled in a racism row, after party leader Nigel Farage suggested most of Britain’s race relations laws should be scrapped.
article_snippet: This is Islamophobia of the worst kind.
article_snippet: If This was shouted at a Muslim on the street none of us would tolerate This, the fact this abuse has come from an elected member of the European Parliament is completely unacceptable. '
article_snippet: Nigel Farage has been plagued by accusations of leading a racist party and this outburst from David Coburn MEP shows that UKIP are not just a party with a few rotten apples but rotten to the core.
article_snippet: ‘UKIP has been plagued by a number of incidents where senior party members have made xenophobic, racist or Islamophobic remarks. '
article_snippet: I am sure you will wish to distance UKIP from such attitudes
article_snippet: and I note you have taken disciplinary action against those found to make such prejudiced remarks in the past.
article_snippet: A UKIP spokesman has obviously caused offence and A UKIP spokesman is very sorry to have done so.
article_snippet: ‘A UKIP spokesman has written to Mr Yousaf offering A UKIP spokesman sincerest apologies.