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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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