Tory London mayoral candidate Boris Johnson has been forced to defend his stance on Islam, insisting he believed it was a "religion of peace". Mr Johnson has been criticised for an article he wrote in the wake of the 7/7 London terror attacks in 2005 claiming "Islam is the problem". But Mr Johnson said the problem was extremists taking the words of the Koran out of context, and said the problem "is people who wrench out of context quotes from the holy book of Islam, the Koran, and use it to inspire evil in men's hearts."
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