OVER 100 MPs have joined a call by Bradford West MP Naz Shah demanding tabloid The Sun take action over a column she says contains Nazi-style wording.

The paper recently published a piece by former political editor Trevor Kavanagh that asks what the country will do about “The Muslim problem.” The column referred to the recent conviction of 18 people in Newcastle for a number of grooming offences. He said the background of many of the men showed that Muslims were a “specific problem.”

In a strongly worded letter that has been signed by over 110 MPs from all parties, Ms Shah said there was “little doubt” that Mr Kavanagh was comparing Muslims to the “Jewish problem” - a phrase used by Nazi Germany in the run up to the Holocaust.

She adds: “It is shocking that in the 21st Century a columnist is using such Nazi-like terminology about a minority community.” The letter goes on to say the column went “beyond the bigotry that has long been present in columns of your paper.”

The letter had been signed by 107 MPs from all parties before it was sent to Sun editor Tony Gallagher on Tuesday, and several more MPs have since added their names.

High profile MPs to have signed the letter include Yvette Cooper, Anna Soubry and Chuka Umunna. Locally Tracy Brabin, Batley and Spen MP, has put her name to the letter, and Bradford East MP Imran Hussain has backed Ms Shah after the letter was sent.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the Sun's column was "wrong, dangerous and must be condemned, as Naz Shah's public letter does in the clearest possible terms.

"The interests of victims of sexual abuse and the rigorous investigation into the underlying causes of that abuse are damaged by this kind of bigotry and prejudice."

Ms Shah told the Telegraph & Argus: "Fighting against this type of language is an ongoing piece of work for me.

"It has been a great achievement to get over a 100 MPs' names in Parliamentary recess in just half a day.

"To me the phrase 'Muslim problem' absolutely has neo Nazi connotations. This is very worrying, especially considering the events of Charlottesville over the weekend."

A spokesperson for The Sun said: “We strongly reject the allegation that Trevor Kavanagh is inciting Islamophobia.

"He is reflecting the links between immigration, religion and crime in the context of a trial of largely Pakistani sex gangs.

“Indeed he quotes Trevor Phillips, former head of the Equality and Human Rights Commission: ‘What the perpetrators have in common is their proclaimed faith. They are Muslims and many of them would claim to be practising. It is not Islamaphobic to point this out.’

“Any suggestion that this article is promoting Islamophobia is a deliberate misreading of a very serious subject. Furthermore, it was never the intention that other elements of the column would be equated to Nazi-like terminology.”

Over 150 people have complained to newspaper regulator IPSO over the wording of the column.