Far too handy for Keir Starmer and the Labour Social gathering to overlook this second. Will the Prime Minister decide to introducing measures to ban the desecration of all spiritual texts and the prophets of the Abrahamic religions?
Sure, you heard that proper. Labour MP Tahir Ali stood up within the Home of Commons and known as on the Prime Minister to introduce blasphemy legal guidelines.
And what was the Prime Minister’s response? As I stated earlier than, Mr. Speaker, he dedicated to tackling all types of hatred and division—together with, after all, Islamophobia in all its varieties.
Effectively, he didn’t deny it, did he? And there’s an excellent purpose for that.
The Labour authorities is at the moment conducting a evaluation of the definition of Islamophobia, led by former Conservative Legal professional Common Dominic Grieve, appointed by Angela Rayner.
However we all know precisely the place the federal government stands on this, don’t we? I’ve talked about it earlier than, and it’s vital.
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In 2019, the Labour Social gathering adopted the All-Social gathering Parliamentary Group (APPG) definition of Islamophobia, which states: "Islamophobia is rooted in racism and is a sort of racism that targets expressions of Muslim-ness or perceived Muslim-ness."
The report from the parliamentary group said that recourse to the notion of free speech and a supposed proper to criticise Islam ends in nothing greater than one other delicate type of anti-Muslim racism, whereby criticism humiliates, marginalises, and stigmatises Muslims.
One real-life instance of this issues the problem of grooming gangs. In different phrases, reference to grooming gangs—which is, after all, only a euphemism for rape gangs—may quantity to Islamophobia and probably be thought-about against the law beneath a Labour authorities.
Now, in an vital interview at the moment, Conservative Social gathering chief Kemi Badenoch rightly warned that the Labour Social gathering can’t be trusted on freedom of speech, citing the aforementioned case of Tahir Ali for instance.
The purpose is that JD Vance was proper when he made this assertion that shocked the world on the Munich Convention earlier this 12 months: "What I fear about is the risk from inside—the retreat of Europe from a few of its most basic values, values shared with the US of America, Britain, and throughout Europe. Free speech, I concern, is in retreat."
The UK is the house of free speech, and but the Labour Social gathering is actively threatening it.
If Labour had any sense, it will carry an finish to this evaluation and clamp down on the authoritarian streak inside its social gathering.