A prominent British politician who lost his television show after making controversial remarks about Arabs was showered in slurry by a protester who said he was acting in the name of Islam, the BBC reported on Saturday. The attack occurred when Robert Kilroy-Silk, a European parliament member representing Britain's minority UK Independence Party, arrived on Friday night for a BBC radio show in Manchester, northern England.
A transcript of the radio programme quoted Kilroy-Silk as saying the attacker, who disappeared, had said he was "doing it in the name of Islam".
"That's what he said as he covered me in slurry just now," Kilroy-Silk said in reply to an audience question about race hate attacks and his own remarks on Arabs.
The attack occurred a month after Dutch film-maker Theo van Gogh, a critic of Islam, was killed in Amsterdam by a suspected Muslim militant.
Kilroy-Silk quit his BBC television show in January, having already been taken off the air after calling Arabs "limb amputators and suicide bombers".
He told the radio audience his remarks had referred to Arab states, not to Arabs generally.
The UK Independence Party, which wants Britain to withdraw from the European Union, won 16 percent of the vote and 12 seats in British elections to the European parliament in June.
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