Kelvin MacKenzie was wrong to attack a hijab-wearing news presenter
Whatever the reasons for Fatima Manji’s choice of dress on Channel 4 News, it is intolerant to expect her to adopt other people’s dress codes
Roy Greenslade
Monday 18 July 2016 07.06 EDT
Kelvin MacKenzie’s controversial column in the Sun about Fatima Manji wearing a hijab while presenting Channel 4 News has, unsurprisingly, come in for criticism.
Her colleagues and bosses were less than impressed with the attack and, at the time of writing, were preparing a statement to that effect (but it wasn’t released until 5.45pm and can be read below).
Although the Sun deleted a tweet that promoted the column it did so on the grounds that it failed to make it clear that it was MacKenzie’s viewpoint and not that of the newspaper.
But I very much doubt that MacKenzie was alone in his views. A woman friend (Irish, lapsed Catholic, now atheist) told me yesterday she strongly objected to Manji wearing the hijab on the grounds that she was representing the subjugation of women.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2016/jul/18/kelvin-mackenzie-was-wrong-to-attack-a-hijab-wearing-news-presenter
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