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Ex-Church Leader: Farage Using Christianity to Channel Anti-Muslim Feeling
Rowan Williams says Farage uses Christian symbolism and rhetoric to present Reform UK as a defender of national identity.
- In an interview published this week, former Archbishop of Canterbury Dr. Rowan Williams accused Reform UK leader Nigel Farage of asserting the UK's Christianity to "channel anti-Muslim feeling."
- Earlier this year, Farage criticized a London Iftar event in Trafalgar Square, claiming the religious fast-breaking gathering was an "attempt to overtake, intimidate and dominate our way of life."
- Questioning Farage's sincerity, Williams acknowledged "inevitable scepticism" regarding religious conviction while noting the Reform UK leader hired theologian James Orr, an academic who influenced Donald Trump's US administration, as a senior adviser.
- Activist Tommy Robinson, who recently declared himself a Christian, faced scrutiny from Williams, who asked how his discipleship squares with rhetoric designed to produce hostility and violence.
- Farage has previously defended his stance, stating that the UK's "Christian values" are something to be proud of, while criticizing young people who he claimed "loathe much of what we stand for.
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Farage using Christianity to ‘channel anti-Muslim feeling’:
LONDON: The former archbishop of Canterbury has accused Reform UK leader Nigel Farage of using the Christian faith to “channel anti-Muslim feeling.” Rowan Williams also said he would pose some “awkward questions” to anti-Islam activist Tommy Robinson over his professed Christian belief. There is an “inevitable scepticism these days about some claims to religious conviction,”
·Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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Nigel Farage accused of using Christianity to 'channel anti-Muslim feeling'
Former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams accused Nigel Farage of using Christianity to channel anti-Muslim feeling and said he would like to ask 'some awkward questions' of Tommy Robinson, who declares himself a Christian
·Cardiff, United Kingdom
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