UK party mistakes cathedral for mosque
UKIP branch blasts the BBC for liberal bias after survey conducted in front of ‘Muslim’ place of worship
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The UK’s Independence Party (UKIP) mistook Westminster Cathedral in London for a mosque in a critical tweet about a BBC straw poll on the party’s leader.
Earlier this week, a BBC reporter was sent out to talk to people on the street about UKIP’s Nigel Farage, as the political show for which the report was being made asked followers on Twitter if Farage was fit to be prime minister.
The BBC published a clip on the segment showing the results, after which UKIP South Thanet, a party branch, released a sarcastic tweet, applauding the state media for choosing the “perfect location to hold a vote in front of a mosque.”
UKIP is firmly anti-immigration and anti-EU, and has been accused of being anti-Muslim.
Last month, it won a seat in the British Parliament for the first time, a significant breakthrough for the anti-immigration force and a protest vote against the country’s mainstream parties.
It has since won a second seat.
UKIP now has two MPs and has been rising in the polls, but do people see the party as a serious political force… http://t.co/dDhct2B7U6
— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) November 25, 2014
The UKIP branch later apologized for the tweet, alleging that it was given the wrong information.
But the mishap set off the “things that are not mosques” hashtag on Twitter with users posting pictures of famous structures, like the Eiffel Tower, and random things, like a mosquito, that are not mosques.
https://twitter.com/MerialEaton/status/537907807132348416
#ThingsThatAreNotMosques – Fox Theater, Atlanta pic.twitter.com/Cn5x4U41mo
— Imraan Siddiqi (@imraansiddiqi) November 27, 2014
https://twitter.com/hashtag/thingsthatarenotmosques?src=hash
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