Farage Misuses Christianity To 'Channel Anti-Muslim Feeling', Ex-Archbishop Of Canterbury Claims

Life peer Dr Rowan Williams said he also had some “awkward questions” for Tommy Robinson.

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Nigel Farage has been accused of misusing Christianity to “channel anti-Muslim feeling” by the former Archbishop of Canterbury.

Life peer Dr Rowan Williams told the New Humanist magazine there was an “inevitable scepticism these days about some claims to religious conviction”.

He said: “I suspect really that Farage and others want to channel anti-Muslim feeling, and it helps to have ‘we’re a Christian society’ to fling back. It gives a sort of ballast.”

Williams, who served as the senior bishop for the Church for England from 2002 to 2012, said he believed there were a lot of possible........

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