Students’ new union leader wanted ‘Islamic takeover’

THE incoming president of the National Union of Students (NUS) has said that she wanted to “oppress white people” and have an “Islamic takeover”.

Zamzam Ibrahim, 24, from Greater Manchester, also described the Government’s counter-extremism strategy as “disastrous” and “racist”.

Using the hashtag #Ifiwaspresident, she wrote on Twitter in 2012: “I’d oppress white people just to give them a taste of what they put us through!” She signed off the message by writing “LMFAO”, which in urban slang is short for “laughing my ----ing arse off ”.

Responding to a question online about what book everyone should read, she said: “The Koran. We would have an Islamic takeover!”

In another question about friendship between men and women, she wrote: “I’ve had this debate with many friends! Maybe in some cases but Islamically it’s incorrect for girls to be friends with a guy anyway! So I’m gonna say NO not the kind of friendship they can have with the same gender there is always boundaries.”

Ms Ibrahim, who was elected as NUS president at its annual conference this week, said her remarks should not be taken “out of context” and they were from a time when she was “struggling” with her view of the world.

She went on: “I was grappling with the deep injustices I could see around me and trying to figure out how I could make the world a better place. I said these things when I was young, impressionable and still developing my personality and opinions.”

Ms Ibrahim unseated Shakira Martin, 28, a self-confessed former drug dealer, who did not go to university.