“The main problem in Britain is Islamophobia,” declares Muslim-sympathizing Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner

AND GET THIS: Under a new definition of so-called “Islamophobia” being put forward by the on-her-knees-to-Islam Deputy Prime Minister, even Sikhs, Hindus, and Buddhists could be considered victims of “Islamophobia.”

Angela Rayner, British Deputy PM: “The problem in Britain is Islamophobia. Muslims have made and are making an immense contribution to British society.” Almost all British politicians have submitted to Allah, from right to left. pic.twitter.com/z6Xro4UkL3

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Angela Rayner’s Islamophobia Council threatens free speech.

Unherd Labour Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner is reportedly planning to establish a 16-person council, with the intention of devising an official Government definition of Islamophobia. Such an initiative, however, is fraught with risks.

The provisions of the current Islamophobia definition don’t just place severe restrictions on freedom of expression to the point of providing cover for the regimes of Muslim-majority countries; they also threaten to undermine scholarly investigations into critical matters of identity and cohesion in modern Britain.

Much of this stems back to 2018, when the All-Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims produced a working definition of Islamophobia. The 2018 report — which is likely to inspire the work of the new council — asserted that accusing Muslims or Muslim-majority states of inventing or exaggerating Islamophobia was itself a contemporary form of Islamophobia.

Additionally, the APPG on British Muslims has been part of efforts to de-emphasize the Muslim background of those responsible for acts of terrorism and group-localised child sexual exploitation (GLCSE) — otherwise known as grooming gangs .Though it is important to combat sweeping generalizations, definitions of Islamophobia should not fuel institutional paralysis by detracting from the fact that Islamiic extremism remains Britain’s principal terror threat and men of Pakistani Muslim heritage are disproportionately represented among GLCSE prosecutions.

What’ more, conflating anti-Muslim discrimination and criticism of organized religion risks the introduction of de facto blasphemy laws disguised as “pro-cohesion activity”. Last November, during “Islamophobia Awareness Month”, Labour MP Tahir Ali asked Keir Starmer if he would “commit to introducing measures to prohibit the desecration of all religious texts and the prophets of the Abrahamic religions”. Responding, the Prime Minister did not rule it out.