Becky (beckyevans)

While Keir Starmer claims, in the White House, that he's "proud" of Britain’s free speech record: The UK Labour government are reinventing their Islamophobia definition to enforce a defacto blasphemy law. The definition adopted by the Labour party in 2019 was the All-Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims definition: “Islamophobia is rooted in racism and is a type of racism that targets expressions of Muslimness or perceived Muslimness.”

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The examples of Islamophobia listed in the definition's accompanying report, co-authored by Health Secretary Wes Streeting and communist group HOPE Not Hate, include conversations about the grooming gangs scandal, which are: “aimed at (and can achieve) harm to individual Muslims, and is not rooted in any meaningful theological debate but rather in a racist attempt to ‘other’ Muslims in general, associating them with the crime our society sees as most abhorrent of all. This strategy has been actively pursued by far right groups including the BNP and EDL but has also been indulged – especially, as our previous research has shown, in relation to ‘grooming gangs’ – by mainstream politicians of all of our main political parties.”

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Last year, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Faith, Communities and Resettlement, Lord Khan, conceding that the definition “proposed by the APPG is not in line with the Equality Act 2010, which defines race in terms of colour, nationality and national or ethnic origins."Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Faith, Communities and Resettlement, Lord Khan, conceding that the definition “proposed by the APPG is not in line with the Equality Act 2010, which defines race in terms of colour, nationality and national or ethnic origins.” So it looks like Starmer's government are finding a new pretext to persecute critics of Islam -- as he promised London Mayor Sadiq Khan at Eid last year.

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Dear #TwoTierKeir is it now Offical Government Policy that we can beat up people in the street, or rape 12 year old children, and get away with it now? As long as: A/ You are a Useful Idiot MP who may be helpful one day? OR: B/ You are a Muslim Voter in a Labour Marginal? Asking for 60 Million People. "MP Mike Amesbury, who admitted repeatedly punching a constituent in the street, has had his 10-week prison sentence suspended following an appeal. The Runcorn and Helsby MP assaulted Paul Fellows, 45, following a row in Frodsham, Cheshire, last year and was jailed by magistrates on Monday" Starmer, you and Labour, are destroying this Country.

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