Posted on 08/09/2019 5:47:36 PM PDT by marshmallow
New adviser appointed
Last month, the government appointed Imam Qari Asim to lead a process for establishing a definition of Islamophobia. The government had previously announced that, while it would not be accepting the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on British Muslims proposed definition of Islamophobia, it would instead appoint two advisers to propose an alternative definition. The government says that the appointment of a second adviser will follow in due course.
In the last hours of Theresa May’s administration
The timing and manner of the appointment look like Theresa May’s administration was desperate to make this appointment on its last full day in office, even though the second adviser has not yet been decided. This leaves the new Boris Johnson administration with an appointment which cannot easily be repealed.
Indeed, the appointment may also have been a deliberate parting shot at the new prime minister, given that Qari Asim has been a vocal critic of Boris Johnson. Johnson said last year that wearing the burqa made people resemble “bank robbers” and “letter boxes,” but he also made clear that he did not think the burqa should be banned even though it has been banned in many other countries.
Qari Asim argued that Johnson’s comments “legitimised the hatred that exists towards Muslim women” and “fanned the flames of Islamophobia.” Asim has also tweeted an article from The Guardian saying: “Boris Johnson’s white privilege: imagine he was a black woman.” I think it is fair to conclude that Asim is not a fan of Boris Johnson, and it is likely that Theresa May and those in her administration were aware of this when they rushed the appointment through in the last few hours of their government.
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What? Now you can’t say beheading is a bad thing to do?
And do we get a Christian anti-blasphemy law? Of course not.
They pretty much have it now since you can’t say anything about them when some terrorist act took place by a muzzie.
UK becoming “Under the Koran”. Pathetic.
Not unexpected.
There’s no 1st Amendment in the UK, and they desperately need one. Stop importing barbarians!
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