A big, certainly, not clueless though. Which makes it all the more worse. A clueess bigot doesn't know he's bigoted and often responds to being corrected. Murray though is a deliberate bigot. He's the product of the finest education money can buy (Eton, Oxford). He is an insidious character. Murray founded the Centre for Social Cohesion. The CSC had tasked itself with two principal goals: social cohesion between communities and taking down extremism, with groups like the far-right British National Party and the Islamist group al Muhajiroon being in its crosshairs. Which sounds fine, very laudable, who would disagree with that. But, in 2006, as chair of the CSC, he ranted on to a Dutch audience that "conditions for Muslims in Europe must be made harder across the board", he called Islam an "infection", he demanded mosques be demolished. That lead the Conservative Party to cut all links with him. Sheepishly, he suggested at the time "I made those comments in a very, very angry time....we all say things that we get wrong". His co-founder of the CSC, James Brandon, expressed frustration with Murray's continued conflation of a religion with extremis. Murray knows exactly what he's doing. He's the journalistic equivalent of a social media influencer, looking for likes, and knows what buttons to push, by exploiting people's innate bigotry. Bigotry is not a learned behaviour. We are all born bigots (https://theconversation.com/think-youre-all-for-gender-equality-your-unconscious-may-have-other-ideas-69520). The learned behaviour comes throough our interaction with others. A clueless bigot hasn't had that interaction; he's going by what he read in the redtops. Murray remains the bigot, like his opposite numbers in the Islamic and Jewish worlds, and buddhist world.
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