Posted on 08/27/2025 7:38:44 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Britain will face social unrest and a perception of a two-tier society if the government pushes ahead with plans to come up with a formal definition of Islamophobia, the head of a new campaign group has warned.
Angela Rayner, the deputy prime minister, has set up a working group to provide recommendations to the government on “appropriate and sensitive language” to describe “unacceptable treatment, prejudice and discrimination against Muslims”.
Fiyaz Mughal, the founder of the Tell Mama organisation which monitors anti-Muslim hate incidents, is leading a campaign against the definition, which he believes risks having a “chilling effect” on free speech and creating a “blasphemy law by the back door”. The campaign is called Keep the Law Equal.
While the definition will not be legally binding, Mughal raised concerns that the police, prosecutors, other public authorities and employers would adopt it and that criticism of any practices associated with the Muslim faith would effectively become an offence.
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A phobia by definition is “an irrational fear”
Fear of radicalized Islam is entirely RATIONAL!
Britannia Rules the Knaves.
Islam is a war plan
Seriously we need to reconsider this “special relationship”. We didn’t have them as allies for the first 125 years ago of our nation’s existence. I’m not quite sure what they could bring to the table these days.
Amazing, England is a powder keg ready to blow yet the Labour party is ready to light the match.
What is rational and irrational fear is often a matter of opinion. Is arachnophobia irrational? Not all spiders are dangerous, but enough are that staying away from all of them may make sense, unless you are confident in your ability to discriminate.
Yes.
I see what you did!
+101
The present UK regime is showing itself as an enemy of the USA.
We still have free speech in England.
Anyone who says otherwise will be arrested.
I hope that they do it.
But they likely won’t.
Thank God for our Founders.
Maybe we need to invade and give them freedom of speech? They will work this out but I fear it is going to descend into bloodshed and violence. Mosques and Pubs will burn. The King must come forth and settle this—That’s his job. Call a snap election and settle this.
I trust that, at the same time, they will define what they mean by "unacceptable."
The use of the word "unacceptable" in this sentence implies that there is a form of acceptable treatment, prejudice, and discrimination against Muslims.
Regards,
The UK is no longer a free country. The ruling classes of the UK do not share our values.
Long overdue to ditch NATO.
Scotland is where the woman wear pants and the men wear dresses.
Please hold off on the definition, it will prevent a war, all caused by one thing....a definition on paper.
Maybe a definition change could stop the ukraine war, like, like,
The new definition of conquer means to take land and give it back after fighting for years.
Putin conquers ukraine! War is over!
Not sure that will help. Nigel has gone wobbly on removing the hordes.
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