Humza Yousaf 'could leave Scotland' in future due to Islamophobia, former SNP leader admits
dailyrecord.co.ukHumza Yousaf has suggested he could leave Scotland in the future due to Islamophobia.The former first minister said he "doesn't know" if he and his family's future lies in Scotland, the UK, Europe or even the West.The ex-SNP leader said that the current targeting of Muslims by far-right rioters "makes me question whether or not my family has an existence here in the UK".Mosques have been attacked by yobs in several English towns and cities in recent days.Yousaf was asked on The NewsAgents podcast what the last few days had felt like.He said: "It's felt utterly horrendous.
It is a strange feeling when your very sense of belonging is questioned."I'm about as Scottish as they come. Born in Scotland, raised in Scotland, educated in Scotland."I just welcomed my third child here in Scotland, was the leader of the Scottish Government for just over a year, leader of the Scottish National Party."You cut me open and I'm about as Scottish as you come."But the truth of the matter is, I don't know whether the future for me and my wife and my three children is going to be here in Scotland, or the United Kingdom, or indeed in Europe and the West."Because I have, for some time, really worried about the rise of the far right, driven by Islamophobia, in the UK, Europe, and the West."And we are now seeing the culmination of not years actually, decades of anti-migrant, anti-Muslim rhetoric being normalised in our political discourse, now playing out in the most horrendous, violent way possible."And that genuinely makes me question whether or not my family has an existence here in the UK or not."I'm not the only one.
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