A PRESS officer for the British Council has been sacked after writing anti-Muslim articles in the Sunday Telegraph using a pseudonym, British media reported today. The council, a government-funded body which promotes British culture and sponsors multicultural activities, confirmed it had fired senior press officer Harry Cummins over the affair. In four articles signed Will Cummins, he denounced the "black heart of Islam" and accused Muslim voters of having a "global jihadi agenda", according to newspapers. "Christians are the original inhabitants and rightful owners of almost every Muslim land and behave with a humility quite unlike the menacing behaviour we have come to expect from the Muslims who have forced themselves on Christendom," he wrote in the right-leaning Sunday Telegraph.
A journalist at the rival left-wing Guardian newspaper revealed Cummins' identity four weeks ago, spurring a wave of complaints from Muslim groups. A British Council spokesman told the Daily Telegraph it had been "a pretty distressing and damaging period". A council spokesman described Cummins' work to the Guardian as "the antithesis of everything that we stand for." The Sunday Telegraph would not comment to the British media on the affair. |