Another day, another UKIP gaffe! On Tuesday, the new general election candidate for Hendon was forced to deny he is Islamophobic, after saying he is “fearful” of Britain’s Muslim community.

Raymond Shamash joined UKIP in 2012 after becoming disillusioned with Conservative Party policy on immigration, which he described as the “number one issue in this election.”

His comments about Muslims come only days after the previous Hendon candidate, Jeremy Zeid, resigned after he called on the Israeli government to extradite US President Barack Obama.

Shamash, a semi-retired dentist from Hertfordshire, told the Jewish Chronicle he was “not Islamophobic,” but rather “fearful” of the Muslim community.

“What is Islamophobia? It is not someone who hates Muslims – it is someone who fears them,” he said.

“There are 2.8 million people [in the UK] who are ideologically and religiously opposed to us. I am fearful of a minority that sees us Jews as a potential target for attack.”

“There are 300,000 Jews in the UK, there are around 2.8 Muslims. The scale, the pace, you cannot compare.”

“Our Jewish schools are fortresses, our cemeteries desecrated by graffiti. After the Paris attacks, I felt fear and I fear for the future of the Jewish community in Britain,” he added.

http://rt.com/uk/245921-ukip-candidate-fears-muslims/