Ukip leader endorses 'factually incorrect' book on Islam

Gerard Batten has previously called Islam a ‘death cult’. Photograph: George Cracknell Wright/Rex/ShutterstockThe Ukip leader, Gerard Batten, has endorsed a “factually incorrect and fundamentally offensive” book that claims Islam is fighting for “the destruction of western civilisation”.The book, Understand Islam in Under an Hour, is being sold by a close ally of the anti-Islam activist Tommy Robinson and was distributed at Ukip’s party conference in Sep