Holyrood’s promotion of Scotland as a “more tolerant, welcoming nation” than neighbouring England is false, according to academic Nighet Riaz, who claims that ring-fenced funding for Gaelic but not Urdu amounts to “anti-Muslim racism” by the far-left Scottish government.
A former regional candidate for the ruling Scottish National Party (SNP), and its current “equalities officer” for Pollokshields in Glasgow, Riaz condemned the government over its treating the Celtic language differently to languages widely spoken in Pakistan, for example by granting more than £5 million last year to the Gaelic quango Bòrd na Gaidhlig.
