UN bigwig compares Nigel Farage and Donald Trump to ISIS saying they want an ethnically cleansed land from a ‘perfect past’
Human rights tsar Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein insists he did not liken the ex-Ukip leader's actions to the terrorist group
NIGEL Farage has been likened to ISIS by a UN High Commissioner – for wanting an ethnically cleansed land from a “perfect past”.
In an extraordinary blast, the United Nations’ human rights tsar said the ex-UKIP chief and bigoted politicians like Donald Trump have much in common with Da’esh.
Speaking in The Hague, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein said: “All seek in varying degrees to recover a past, halcyon and so pure in form where sunlit fields are settled by peoples united by ethnicity or religion – living peacefully in isolation, pilots of their fate, free of crime, foreign influence and war.
“A past that most certainly, in reality, did not exist anywhere, ever.”
The 52 year-old Jordanian insisted he was not equating the politicians’ actions to those of Da’esh – who were “monstrous, sickening”.
But he said their modes of communications, use of propaganda and “use of half-truths” were identical.
He added: “The proposition of recovering a supposedly perfect past is fiction, its merchants are cheats. “Clever cheats.”
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Mr Al Hussein speaking specifically about Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders at the inauguration of the Peace, Justice and Security Foundation in Holland’s Hague.
Mr Wilders’ wants to close mosques, Islamic school and ban the Qur’an.
In his speech, Mr Al Hussein said: “What Mr Wilders shares in common with Mr Trump … Madame Le Pen, Mr Farage, he also shares with Da’esh.”
Mr Farage dismissed the UN official’s blast – saying he was part of a “terrified political elite who don’t want change”.
Michael Heaver, a former aide to Mr Farage, added: “So now the UN openly attacking Nigel Farage.
“A politically correct global elite stomping their feet and lashing out.”