Earlier this year Mr Kassam – who served as a top aide to Nigel Farage until May 2015 – said migration issues in Europe were convincing him Britain should “pull up the drawbridge”.
The comments echo those of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, whose calls for a “total and complete shutdown” of Muslims entering the US were widely condemned.
They are also at odds with interim Ukip leader Mr Farage, who said Mr Trump's plan was “wrong” and “not a very positive message”.
But Mr Kassam told PoliticsHome the stance was "not something that's in my policy platform" for the Ukip leadership.
Mr Kassam was talking to the Jon Gaunt Show on Talk to Me Radio in January, discussing the New Year's Eve Cologne attacks for a show entitled 'The truth about migrant rape gangs'.
As many as 1,000 women were reported to have suffered sexual assaults at the German city's central train station, with many of the perpetrators said to have been of North African or Arab descent.
Asked whether he agreed with former English Defence League leader Tommy Robinson that there should be a five-year ban on Muslims coming to the UK, Mr Kassam said:
“I think there is as serious case to be made. And Donald Trump in the United States has been making this point as well that actually there may need to be some sort of break while we investigate this.
“Because, as you see, the career politicians have said for years 'oh, there’s no problem, they are just like us, they can come here and there will be no problems' - there are massive bloody problems.”
By EMilio Caslicchio.
Full story at Politics Home.
No comments:
Post a Comment