Far too convenient for Keir Starmer and the Labour Party to forget this moment. Will the Prime Minister commit to introducing measures to prohibit the desecration of all religious texts and the prophets of the Abrahamic religions?
Yes, you heard that right. Labour MP Tahir Ali stood up in the House of Commons and called on the Prime Minister to introduce blasphemy laws.
And what was the Prime Minister’s response? As I said before, Mr. Speaker, he committed to tackling all forms of hatred and division—including, of course, Islamophobia in all its forms.
Well, he didn’t deny it, did he? And there’s a very good reason for that.
Matthew Goodwin said that "free speech is not safe"
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The Labour government is currently conducting a review of the definition of Islamophobia, led by former Conservative Attorney General Dominic Grieve, appointed by Angela Rayner.
But we know exactly where the government stands on this, don’t we? I’ve talked about it before, and it’s important.
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In 2019, the Labour Party adopted the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) definition of Islamophobia, which states: "Islamophobia is rooted in racism and is a type of racism that targets expressions of Muslim-ness or perceived Muslim-ness."
The report from the parliamentary group stated that recourse to the notion of free speech and a supposed right to criticise Islam results in nothing more than another subtle form of anti-Muslim racism, whereby criticism humiliates, marginalises, and stigmatises Muslims.
One real-life example of this concerns the issue of grooming gangs. In other words, reference to grooming gangs—which is, of course, just a euphemism for rape gangs—could amount to Islamophobia and potentially be considered a crime under a Labour government.
Now, in an important interview today, Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch rightly warned that the Labour Party cannot be trusted on freedom of speech, citing the aforementioned case of Tahir Ali as an example.
JD Vance has spoken negatively of the Labour party in the past TUCKER CARLSON NETWORKThe point is that JD Vance was right when he made this statement that shocked the world at the Munich Conference earlier this year: "What I worry about is the threat from within—the retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values, values shared with the United States of America, Britain, and across Europe. Free speech, I fear, is in retreat."
The United Kingdom is the home of free speech, and yet the Labour Party is actively threatening it.
If Labour had any sense, it would bring an end to this review and clamp down on the authoritarian streak within its party.
