The Vamps’ James McVey has bravely spoken out, using his celebrity status to defend Islam following yesterday's (March 22) terror attacks on Brussels.

McVey took to Twitter earlier today to ask fans to stay safe following the attacks, and later returned to shoot down a negative comment from a Twitter user named Stephen Crowder @scrowder who suggested that “there is no greater evil in our time than Islam”.

Following the negative comments, #STOPISLAM began trending on Twitter.

However, McVey responded to Crowder’s comment with the following:

“This highlights the unintelligence of a worrying amount of people. It demonstrates not only your astronomical ignorance, but also pertains to an alarming lack of education.

“Painting all followers of Islam under the same brush of ‘terrorism’ is as stupid as it is wrong - I presume you don’t group all Christians under the umbrella of the KKK?

“Either way, people who proclaim to be patriotic or doing ‘god’s work’ by condemning entire religions are disgusting.

“This view reminds me of someone else who shared this mindset… And he ethnically cleansed over six million people.

“Go worship and preach whatever, or whoever you believe in, but I worship this world's people.”

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