A charity boss who was cancelled for “Islamophobic” posts has won a landmark legal case, successfully overturning his ban in a major free speech victory. The Telegraph has the story.
The Charity Commission made a disqualification order against Gary Mond in 2023, after a handful of historical “anti-Muslim” posts on social media were brought to light.
The commission’s decision has now been quashed on appeal.
It is the first time the commission has had a disqualification order overturned.
Mr Mond, who is Jewish, was a trustee of the Jewish National Fund UK (JNF UK), which describes itself as “Britain’s oldest Israel charity”, for 12 years before the commission said it was investigating his posts.
The commission disqualified Mr Mond from acting as a charity trustee or senior manager for two and a half years because it said his online activity could have brought the charities he worked with into disrepute. …
While the tribunal said some of Mr Mond’s social media activity could be “perceived as anti-Islam”, it agreed that “Mr Mond has the right to freedom of expression”.
It also agreed that the online posts in question, dating from 2014 to 2021, did not constitute “the conduct of someone who is unfit” to be a trustee.
In one such post, Mr Mond said that if a significant number of Muslims were elected as Labour MPs “the Britain that we knew will have gone forever”. …
Mr Mond, who spent over £60,000 on his appeal, has consistently rejected any suggestion that he is “Islamophobic”.
The tribunal found the Commission’s order to disqualify Mr Mond to be undesirable “in order to protect public trust and confidence in charities generally”. …
Mr Mond told the Telegraph: “The outcome of this case, which was an appalling waste of both taxpayers’ money and my own, says infinitely more about the Charity Commission than it does about me.”
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Yet another incompetent or woke and islamophilic national unaccountable organisation has been found to be, err just that.
Well, I am islamophobic in the sense that everything I have seen about Islam makes me weary of it even more.
Not only am I islamophobic (for any number of good reasons), but also BBC-phobic, climate-claptrap-phobic, fake-pandemic-phobic, mass-hysteria-phobic, sluicing-away-public-money-phobic, uncontrolled-immigration-phobic, etc, etc – and in recent years obsessively gov.uk-phobic.
I’m also phobic, deeply offended and seriously seething about the 25% increase in water bill that landed in our letterbox yesterday, but better not get myself started on that.
I think any sane person would deny they’re ”Islamophobic” because it’s a made-up nonsense word. No religion is above criticism. We don’t have an ”Islamophobic” problem but there’s certainly plenty of evidence of an ‘Anglophobic’ one. Shamefully, by many native English as well.
Then your view is based on observation, not irrational fear so it is not a “phobia”.
I hope he sues.
“Islamo-phobia” does not exist, because we are not afraid.
It’s “ISLAMO-NAUSEA”, because the whole world is sick of Islam.
Nice one.
This is in Southport. They’re determined to indoctrinate the kids. Why on earth would you need Muslims to visit your school and talk about Islam though? The tactics here are very transparent;
“Since the incident, the school has been pushing certain ideologies and views onto our children.
“My child has suddenly started to learn about Islam and Muslims in RE.
“Year 5 have been given homework about refugees. Stating how they are all innocent, mostly children who are escaping bombs and they get to the UK by small boat. Given all we see on the news these days are how solely adult men are arriving in the UK almost daily by small boat, illegally, and many going on to hurt our children, this is very worrying.
“We are due to have two separate visits from members of the Islamic faith over the next couple of months to talk to our children about their religion. The children are all aged between 4-11.
“Given it has now been confirmed Axel was an Islamic terrorist I find this very inappropriate considering our community is still grieving.
“I am in no way saying all Muslims are Islamic terrorists at all, but these children were friends of girls who were murdered and hurt by an openly Muslim Islamic terrorist and now we are learning about their faith.
“The entire month of February is also now dedicated to learning about LGBTQ+. They will be teaching our children about LGBTQ+, the contributions they’ve made and the LGBTQ+ history.
“I don’t believe primary school aged children should be being taught any of this. They are young children and ideologies are being pushed on them when they are only beginning to understand themselves.”
https://x.com/DaveAtherton20/status/1888508619911557572
No wonder Gwendolene the education minister wants to crack down on children receiving a proper education at home.
It seems to me that the Jews, in particular, have a lot of very good reasons to be Islamophobic.
In WW2 Muslim countries in the Maghreb gave sanctuary to Js.