{"id":6549,"date":"2014-08-26T00:05:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T07:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=6549"},"modified":"2014-08-26T00:05:54","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T07:05:54","slug":"british-cabinet-loses-token-muslim-over-insufficient-israel-bashing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2014\/08\/26\/british-cabinet-loses-token-muslim-over-insufficient-israel-bashing\/","title":{"rendered":"British Cabinet Loses Token Muslim Over Insufficient Israel Bashing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, who served in the British cabinet at Minister for Faith and Communities, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/Breitbart-London\/2014\/08\/05\/Baroness-Token-resigns-Never-buy-the-first-pony-you-see\" target=\"_blank\">resigned<\/a> over the British government&#8217;s stance on Israel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\" align=\"center\">\n<p>With deep regret I have this morning written to the Prime Minister &amp;  tendered my resignation. I can no longer support Govt policy on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Gaza?src=hash\">#Gaza<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sayeeda Warsi (@SayeedaWarsi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SayeedaWarsi\/statuses\/496568922066681856\">August 5, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Of course, here her connection with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/politics\/conservative\/9321540\/Baroness-Warsi-and-the-extremist.html\" target=\"_blank\">radical<\/a> Islamist party Hizb ut-Tahrir probably didn&#8217;t have anything to do with her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/Breitbart-London\/2014\/08\/05\/UK-Cabinet-Minister-Resigns-3-Days-After-Breitbart-London-Says-She-Has-to-Go\" target=\"_blank\">stance<\/a> that Israel should just stop being meanies by not letting Hamas commit genocide.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The irony is that P. M. David Cameron <em>has<\/em> been <a href=\"http:\/\/spectator.org\/blog\/60162\/britain-reviewing-military-aid-israel-rewards-hamas\" target=\"_blank\">willing to go against Israel<\/a>.\u00a0 But apparently not against Israel enough.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Looks like Britain&#8217;s Labour Party is courting Warsi, or at least the &#8220;kill-all-the-Jews&#8221; crowd.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\" align=\"center\">\n<p>I think Baroness Warsi has acted with principle &amp; integrity. People around Britain have been shocked by the suffering we have seen in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ed Miliband (@Ed_Miliband) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ed_Miliband\/statuses\/496645691133788161\">August 5, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Both her statement and Cameron&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/pm-letter-to-baroness-warsi\" target=\"_blank\">response<\/a> are below:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><div id=\"attachment_6550\" style=\"width: 587px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/Breitbart-London\/2014\/08\/05\/UK-Cabinet-Minister-Resigns-3-Days-After-Breitbart-London-Says-She-Has-to-Go\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6550\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6550\" title=\"Warsi Statement\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Warsi-Statement.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"577\" height=\"773\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Warsi-Statement.jpg 577w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Warsi-Statement-223x300.jpg 223w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 577px) 100vw, 577px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6550\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Warsi&#39;s statement on her resignation via Breitbart<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p  style=\" margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; display: block;\">   <a title=\"View PM Letter Baroness Warsi on Scribd\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/237073549\/PM-Letter-Baroness-Warsi\"  style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" >PM Letter Baroness Warsi<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"\/\/www.scribd.com\/embeds\/237073549\/content?start_page=1&#038;view_mode=scroll&#038;show_recommendations=true\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"undefined\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"doc_20624\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\"><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\"><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\"><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"British Cabinet Loses Token Muslim Over Insufficient Israel Bashing\"><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, who served in the British cabinet at Minister for Faith and Communities, resigned over the British government's stance on Israel.\"><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Warsi-Statement.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, who served in the British cabinet at Minister for Faith and Communities, resigned over the British government&#8217;s stance on Israel. With deep regret I have this morning written to the Prime Minister &amp; tendered my resignation. 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