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How the Islamophobia Definition Became a New Front in the Culture War
Think tanks, working with right-leaning media outlets and MPs, have toxified the political and social waters around recognising anti-Muslim hate. James Bloodworth reports
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In July, Dominic Grieve appeared on Chopper’s Political Podcast with GB News host Christopher Hope to discuss a matter that, in technocratic terms, may have been routine: the creation of a government definition of Islamophobia.
Former Conservative Attorney General Grieve, chair of the Anti-Muslim Hatred/Islamophobia Definition Working Group, emphasised what should have been an obvious safeguard in a liberal democracy. The group’s terms of reference, he explained, made “absolutely explicit that we will not introduce some blasphemy law to protect religion, whether it is Islam or anything else, by the back door”.
If this was intended to reassure, it failed to do so.
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