A councillor has formally apologised for labelling 'all Muslims as terrorists' while on an equality and diversity course.
Marjorie
Snowden, a former mayor of Sherborne in Dorset, also asked why council
members should be 'interested in black history?' during the training.
A
horrified official complained about the offensive comments to a
colleague but the reply was 'well, that's Marjorie', before it was
reported.

Former Sherborne mayor Marjorie Snowden who has caused outrage after calling all muslims terrorists
Miss Bickle, a community development leader, was taking the course designed to teach councillors about legal duties regarding equality on June 28 last year.
It was during a slide show about an Islamophobic email hoax in 2010, alleging that Muslims wanted to have Holocaust Day banned, that Mrs Snowden made the remarks.
The Conservative councillor was said to have also failed to treat a disabled member of staff with respect and made a 'derogatory aside' about homosexual people.
Miss Bickle said: 'Before I could continue Cllr Snowden shouted out that the Muslims did want Holocaust Day banned.
'Cllr Snowden insisted on shouting me down and made several remarks which were clearly hostile to the Muslim community and bordering on religious hatred, identifying all Muslims as terrorists and adopting an us and them attitude towards this community.
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