Tony Bellew appears to be Tommy Robinson\u2019s latest target in his bid to garner publicity. In May, the far-right extremist was released from prison four months earlier than scheduled, having initially been sentenced to 18 months for contempt of court.<\/p>\n
Robinson, 42, breached a 2021 High Court order prohibiting him from repeating false allegations against a Syrian refugee who had successfully sued him for libel. Since his release, he\u2019s been active on social media, recently interviewing rapper Akala on YouTube. Earlier this year, Bellew was critical of Robinson\u2019s views.<\/p>\n
Citing Robinson’s criticism of Islam, Bellew, 42, branded Robinson \u2018racist\u2019 and \u2018disgusting\u2019. The English Defence League founder shared the interview on X and aimed some scathing comments towards the ex-boxer.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat\u2019s your take on\u00a0Tony Bellew\u00a0bending over for Islam?\u201d he wrote. \u201cUsing the boring \u2018racist\u2019 label. I didn\u2019t take him for being a b***h.\u201d<\/p>\n
Former world champion Bellew had also said: \u201cI saw the interview he did with the rapper, and he basically said he\u2019s an enemy of Islam. Why would anyone be an enemy of any religion?<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are bad Muslims, there are bad Christians, there are bad Catholics, there are bad Jews. I didn\u2019t like the narrative\u00a0Tommy Robinson\u00a0was painting to be honest.\u00a0<\/strong>Why would anyone pick targets?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt’s like saying there’s good white people and there’s good black people. There are good and bad in all races, religions, creeds and ethnicities. And this man’s painting is a narrative that there’s something wrong with Islam.\u201d<\/p>\n Bellow encouraged Robinson, real name Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon, to \u2018stop spreading hate\u2019. The Merseysider himself has been vocal on political issues since retiring from boxing in 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tony Bellew appears to be Tommy Robinson\u2019s latest target in his bid to garner publicity. In May, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[122303,1935,122301,122304,79,59423,76764,122302,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-344266","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-bellew-islam","9":"tag-boxing","10":"tag-boxing-section","11":"tag-robinson-islam","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-tommy-robinson","14":"tag-tony-bellew","15":"tag-tony-bellew-tommy-robinson","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115028011489374405","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}