UKIP’s county councillor has quit due to sharing offensive material about Muslims on Facebook.
The United Kingdom Independence Partyâ„¢s (UKIP) county councillor Eric Kitson has resigned due to sharing offensive material about Muslims on his Facebook page.
Kitson, 59, quit his post at the Worcestershire County Council seat that he had won in recent weeks.
Even though Kitson denies being a racist, he claims that he shared cartoons and jokes about Muslims on the social network to show how Å“disgusting” they are.
Since this incident, he is said to have apologised and mentioned that it was Å“stupid” for him to share the messages, which were posted last year on his Facebook account.
According to the UKIP chairman for Dudley and Halesown, Bill Etheridge, an internal investigation had been launched by the party and officials were thinking about Kitsonâ„¢s membership at UKIP.
“Ukip does not condone hate, racism or prejudice. We totally condemn those things because it’s not what the party is about. In fact it is the total opposite of what the party is about,” Etheridge claimed.
This comes as UKIP is being condemned by critics as a racist far-right party, which has attracted much support from the fascist, Islamophobic group, which calls itself the English Defence League (EDL).
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This article originally appeared on : Press TV