Yahoo – AFP,
Naomi O'Leary, 10 Dec 2015
London (AFP) - The Scottish government sacked US presidential hopeful Donald Trump as a business ambassador and a university revoked his honorary degree on Wednesday after he called for a ban on Muslims entering the United States.
Donald
Trump is pictured as he recieves an Honorary award of Doctor of Business
Administration at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, Scotland, on October 8,
2010 (AFP Photo/Derek Blair)
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London (AFP) - The Scottish government sacked US presidential hopeful Donald Trump as a business ambassador and a university revoked his honorary degree on Wednesday after he called for a ban on Muslims entering the United States.
A petition
to bar the Republican frontrunner from Britain reached more than 358,000
signatures amid an outcry over comments by the tycoon, who owns golf courses in
Scotland and has family links to the country.
"Mr
Trump's recent remarks have shown that he is no longer fit to be a business
ambassador for Scotland," a spokesman for the regional government said as
he was dropped as a "GlobalScot" ambassador, a position he took up in
2006.
The hotel
at Trump Turnberry Resort is
pictured beyond the fairway of one of it's
golf
courses in Turnberry, Scotland on
July 30, 2015 (AFP Photo/Paul Faith)
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Robert
Gordon University in Aberdeen announced it would revoke an honorary doctorate
of business administration it awarded to Trump in 2010 because of statements
"that are wholly incompatible with the ethos and values of the
university".
Remarks by
the property billionaire that police feared for their lives in parts of London
due to radicalisation also caused a social media outcry and drew the ire of the
capital's mayor, Boris Johnson.
"When
Donald Trump says there are parts of London that are no-go areas, I think he is
betraying a quite stupefying ignorance that makes him frankly unfit to hold the
office of the president of the United States," Johnson told ITV News.
Web users
mocked the blustering tycoon with the ironic hashtag #trumpfacts.
One tweet
carried an image of Queen Elizabeth II wearing a headscarf with the
inscription: "Even the British monarch is now forced to wear a
hijab".
'Could
not be more wrong'
The
petition to bar Trump from entering Britain will be considered for a debate in
parliament, like all petitions that reach over 100,000 signatures.
"The
UK has banned entry to many individuals for hate speech. The same principles
should apply to everyone who wishes to enter the UK," the petition read.
The appeal
was launched by Scottish resident Suzanne Kelly, a long-time critic of the
69-year-old who was also behind the pressure on Robert Gordon University to
revoke Trump's honorary degree.
Over 75,000 people signed her petition demanding that the university take action because of "Trump's unrepentant, persistent verbal attacks on various groups of people based on nationality, religion, race and physical abilities".
Over 75,000 people signed her petition demanding that the university take action because of "Trump's unrepentant, persistent verbal attacks on various groups of people based on nationality, religion, race and physical abilities".
Finance
minister George Osborne told parliament that Trump's comments were
"nonsense" but added that debate was "the best way to deal with
Donald Trump and his views rather than trying to ban presidential
candidates".
Twenty-four
lawmakers have put their names to two House of Commons motions condemning
Trump's remarks.
One calls
on the government "to refuse a visa allowing Donald Trump to visit the UK
until Mr Trump withdraws his comments".
British
police issued a rare rebuke after comments by Trump to US network MSNBC
claiming there were places in London "that are so radicalised that the
police are afraid for their own lives".
A
spokeswoman for Scotland Yard said Trump "could not be more wrong"
and invited all US presidential candidates for a briefing "on the reality
of policing London".
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