Muslim woman says she was told to 'go home' after Boris Johnson's burka comments

A Muslim woman says she was told to ‘go home’ and gets ‘physically assaulted in broad daylight’ after Boris Johnson’s comments comparing the burka to ‘letterboxes’.

Her comments came during last night’s BBC Question Time, and were directed at journalist and author Lionel Shriver, who was on the panel.

During the discussions, Ms Shriver says the prime minister’s comments, in which he used a Telegraph column to describe Muslim women who wear the burka to ‘letterboxes and bank robbers’, were taken out of context.

As she attempted to defend Mr Johnson’s statement, a Muslim woman in the audience is asked how she feels.

She responds: ‘When I walk down the street, I get told, after that, to go back to my own country.

‘I am from here’.

She then goes on to ask Ms Shriver to ‘take responsibility’.

Another woman then goes on to accuse the author of ‘spreading hate’ by saying ‘what’s wrong with saying it’s a letterbox’.

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Ms Shriver says that Mr Johnson’s column was arguing about the right of Muslim women to wear what they want, to which the Muslim woman responds, ‘that also includes the niqab’.

She adds: ‘There are consequences to what you say, because of that I get abuse on the streets, I’m talking on behalf of many Muslims.

‘I get physically assaulted just walking to the gym in broad daylight’.

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