Abhijit Pandya

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Abhijit Pandya is a British solicitor who stood as a UK Independence Party candidate in a Leicester South byelection in 2011.

He has been named by anti-Islam blogger Pamela Geller as 'one of our British solicitors' in assisting her legal actions against British home secretary Theresa May who banned Geller and colleaugue Robert Spencer from entering the UK in June 2013.

Views

Pandya sparked outrage over a blog he wrote just a week before the 2011 by-election, in which he quoted and backed controversial Dutch politician Geert Wilders, who has described Islam as 'a retarded ideology'.[1]

A Leicester Mercury editorial condemned Pandya’s blog as

a wildly inflammatory rant which boiled down to a crass and nasty characterisation of Muslims as lazy, intolerant spongers who are a threat to the British way of life. It was not part of a reasoned debate about multiculturalism, but a series of sweeping, unsubstantiated generalisations which demonise the Muslim community.[1]

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