Kilroy-Silk posing as ‘24 carat martyr’

THE head of the Commission for Racial Equality yesterday accused Robert Kilroy-Silk of posing as a ‘24-carat martyr’ and called for him to issue an apology for his article in which he called Arabs “suicide bombers, limb-amputators, women repressors”.

CRE chairman Trevor Phillips said he did not believe the BBC presenter who once branded the Irish as a nation of 'peasants, priests and pixies' was a racist, but that he was risking his reputation by trying to 'defend the indefensible'.

He said 61-year-old Mr Kilroy-Silk should 'learn something about Muslims and Arabs' and use some of his 'vast earnings' to support a Muslim charity as recompense for his remarks in his column in last week's Sunday Express.