Lord Pearson of Rannoch
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Terrorism: Perpetrator Creed
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Lord Pearson of Rannoch (UKIP)
My Lords, going further than that, since nowadays most terrorists are Islamists—
Noble Lords
Lord Pearson of Rannoch
Why do the Government, the BBC and so on regularly describe them as “Asian men”? Is this not insulting to all the Asian men in the world who are not even Muslims, let alone Islamists?
Baroness Williams of Trafford
I do not know which part of that question I should disagree with first. It is not the case that all terrorists are Islamists; we have had some examples recently of far-right terrorism. And to describe someone as Asian would be entirely inaccurate: just because you are a Muslim, that does not mean you are Asian.