One of Scotland’s most prominent Muslims compared the treatment of Muslims in Britain to that of Jews in Nazi Germany. Osama Saeed compared the “sustained barrage of verbal abuse being aimed at Muslims” in Britain today to state-sponsored persecution of Jews in prewar Germany. Saeed is the Scottish spokesman for the Muslim Association of Britain and a former Scottish National Party candidate.
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