Reform racist Yusuf wants to ban Sikhs fulfilling their religion

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Last Updated on 30 May 2026 by Skwawkbox



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Reform UK’s Zia Yusuf is more than a bit full of himself. He likes to style himself Reform’s “Shadow Home Secretary”. He’s not. He’s Reform’s home affairs spokesperson, God help us all. ‘Shadow’ refers to the home affairs spokesperson of the party with second-most MPs in the Commons. For the moment, that’s still the Tories. But many would say he’s full of something else, too. That proposition is reinforced by the fact that today, 29 May 2026, he has decided he needs to pander to his racist base even further. In this case, by banning Sikhs from carrying the kirpan, the ceremonial dagger required of observant Sikhs to fulfil their religious obligations:

Reform’s race-baiting nonsense

Sikhs have been allowed to carry kirpans in the UK since at least Winston Churchill’s time — because he advocated for it out of a sense of Britain’s indebtedness to Sikhs, as respondents reminded Yusuf:

And it’s not as if Sikhs have no need to be armed. Thick racists who would probably support Reform — though probably not the Muslim-born Yusuf — sometimes attack, even rape, Sikhs because they mistake their victims for Muslims who the political establishment loves to incite against. Yusuf’s excuse for his race-baiting would probably be the conviction of a man in Southampton this week for a knife murder. But Yusuf’s either too opportunistic or too challenged (both?) to admit that this wasn’t committed with a kirpan:

In fact, in the past half-century there hasn’t been a single kirpan-linked death in the UK. The single incident mentioned by one respondent also mistook the weapon-type — but he correctly identified the racism in the original post. Compare that to the around 50,000 offences annually involving non-Sikh’s and other types of knife:

And, of course, there are a lot more people allowed to legally carry dangerous weapons than Sikhs:

Many ventured that Yusuf’s racist grandstanding was driven by fear of even more extreme right-wing parties that are eating away at Reform’s ‘base’ (‘base’ being very appropriate in this instance):

‘Disgrace’

Yusuf was coming off the back of his illegal threat to put immigration concentration camps in areas that voted Green in May’s local elections. Gaining votes through incentives or coercison is a crime. And his latest post was similarly treated with utter contempt by most who responded:

Lots of contempt:

Lots and lots:

But not quite the contempt it deserved. The X platform isn’t big enough to hold that much contempt.

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