London UKIP MEP Gerard Batten has gone on the offensive after a week’s ban from micro-blogging site Twitter for calling Islam a “death cult”, doubling down on his original remarks. An outspoken critic of radical Islam, Batten was banned on the 26th by Twitter after he wrote about Muslims being the greatest threat to other Muslims because of a long history of internecine sectarian violence. The tweet for which he was banned was in response to another Twitter user and read: “Muslims kill each other for being the wrong kind of Muslim more than they kill infidels. It’s a death cult.” My twitter account was suspended recently because I said 'Islam was a death cult'. Well I am back now, and Islam is still a death cult. — Gerard Batten MEP (@GerardBattenMEP) October 3, 2017 Speaking to Breitbart London during the UKIP conference during his ban, Batten said he had written to Twitter to explain his remarks and demand his account be reinstated, but that he had received no response. In his first tweet after seeing the ban lifted, Batten was unapologetic, doubling down on his previous remarks and stating: “My twitter account was suspended recently because I said ‘Islam was a death
