Accusations of ‘Islamophobia’ are being used as a way to suppress the exposure of grooming gangs, a report has found, as worries grow about Labour introducing an Islamic blasphemy law by the back door. The Times has the story.
The Government is being urged to adopt a formal definition of anti-Muslim discrimination to be used nationally, which critics have said would effectively act as a blasphemy law.
On Tuesday, a report by the Policy Exchange think tank warned that the term had been “directly used to attack those who sought to expose the Rotherham grooming scandal”.
Andrew Norfolk, the Times investigative reporter who broke the story [in 2011], was accused of working to “amplify an increasingly prevalent Islamophobia” in a 72-page report by Left-wing academics from the Media Reform Coalition.
Sarah Champion, the Yorkshire MP who fought for victims of the scandal, and Dame Louise Casey, who led an inspection of children’s services at Rotherham council, were shortlisted for the “Islamophobe of the Year” award by a prominent UK Muslim group, the Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC).
“As in Rotherham, the charge of Islamophobia is often used by wrongdoers who are Muslim, or their allies, to smear or deter those who seek to expose them,” Andrew Gilligan and Paul Stott, the authors of the Policy Exchange report, said. “Any official definition would make this problem worse. The purpose of an official Islamophobia definition is not to stop anti-Muslim hatred or discrimination —which are already illegal — but to create special protections for one faith.
“The Government rejects claims of two-tier policing, but adopting any form of Islamophobia definition would clearly create a two-tier policy, formalising different treatment of people depending on their religion.”
The Labour Party has adopted the definition of Islamophobia produced by the All-Party Parliamentary Group for British Muslims (APPG), which was criticised for putting ‘grooming gangs’ in inverted commas and suggested that using the term in relation to Muslims was racist.
The single-line definition it recommends is that “Islamophobia is rooted in racism and is a type of racism that targets expressions of Muslimness or perceived Muslimness”.
It said the term Islamophobia was a modern iteration of “age-old stereotypes and tropes about Islam”, listing these as “sexual profligacy and paedophilia, or Islam and violence” and concluding they “heighten vulnerability of Muslims to hate crimes”.
Worth reading in full.
Apart from anything else, it’s obviously a stupid definition. For one, it can’t decide if Islamophobia is “rooted in racism” or a “type of racism”. Which is it? Make up your mind! The equivocation is presumably because the authors know – and this is a bigger problem with it – that Islam is not, of course, a race. It’s a religion followed by people from a variety of ethnic backgrounds. The definition then missteps again by equating this “racism” with “targeting expressions of Muslimness” – effectively making it “racist” to criticise Islamic beliefs and practices.
A party that confuses religion and race is hardly a fit one to lead a country. It does, though, suggest a promising new definition of the Labour party: “The Labour party is rooted in incompetence and is a type of incompetence that targets farmers, working class people and perceived expressions of independent thinking.”
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Labour does not just target Farmers and Working class people, it targets white people, it targets Women who are biological women, it targets the Elderly, it targets the sick, it targets the Jews, the catholics, it targets British Children, it targets those who work in the Private sector, it targets those. who own businesses.
In summary Labour despises the indigenous population of the country, it despises all religions that are not Islam. They hate us, they hate our children our elderly, they hate those who are chronically sick, they hate those who create wealth in small and medium business.
They see us as nothing but a host to Parasite off and redistribute money, property, land too their voting and supporting constituency. Don’t select just Farmers and working class, it creates division, thats what they want. They are a parasite on the country, they will suck the lifeblood out of it before they are done.
Yes but just imagine how much worse it would be with a woman at the helm.
Satire warning! Laugh alert!
Hahahaha luvvit, brightened my morning. Some clearly didn’t geddit.
Powerful——–We are all just a nuisance to the Davos Loving World Government People.
That would be a Chinese world government? An Islamic one? Maybe WEF eco-Marxist? Shall we just sit back and watch all three fight it out?
I agree with every word and I could add plenty more to the Diagnosis. But any thoughts on the Reason this is happening and what is the Cure? Or, is this yet another group therapy for the sufferers? If the latter, it has made me feel worse.
Does any seek to protect Catholic rapists, or Hindu rapists? —–This country is sleepwalking to disaster.
Burn the Koran and you’re a racist criminal, burn the British or Israeli flags and you’re a freedom fighter.
Two-tier Prime Minister, two-tier law enforcement, two-tier judiciary.
And that’s before a blasphemy law comes in though the back door.
What religion can you think of where people would feel compelled to go and pray mid shopping spree? They’re saying this is “multi-faith” but I didn’t come down the Tyne on a banana boat
https://x.com/darrengrimes_/status/1894559536419164425
I don’t feel fear towards Islam but I find it profoundly depressing. It can never take hold in northern Europe because Islam is a moon based spirituality and we are so deprived of sunlight in our countries that sun worship will never be extinguished save a pole shift. But it represents a diminution or falling down from the worship of the Christ spirit. It was always a syncretic and dubiously pragmatic teaching of dubious origins. It isn’t the advancement of the Abrahamic teaching it is its regression. The fact that it is rife with so much repressed homosexuality speaks of its dearth and darkness.
It would help if people learnt that ‘islam’ is not a race. ‘muslim’ is not a race. They are names applied to the same religion.
Unless checked in the next few years islam will destroy this country.
We’ll descend into lawlessness and civil war and many people will die.
Enoch Powell’s “rivers of blood” prophecy will come true.