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This kind of article is artfully constructed. It is designed to make people ashamed to be concerned about jihad, Sharia, and Islamization in Britain, and to stigmatize all such concerns as a form of bigotry. The actual aggressive, violent, expansionist and supremacist teachings of the Qur’an and Sunnah are not mentioned, or their existence even acknowledged. Peter Oborne tries to give the impression that the only reason why anyone would be concerned about Islam is because he or she is a far-right racist bigot.
This is a common tactic that goes back years. Leftists keep using it because it works, intimidating the ignorant and easily cowed into silence and acceptance of what is happening.
“Tories have failed to act on Islamophobia. Time for Equalities Commission to investigate,” by Peter Oborne, Middle East Eye, July 25, 2023:
The British Conservative party has mutated over the last two decades.
At the start of the century, it could reasonably claim to represent decent middle-England voters. Today, it’s turned into something much nastier.
The party has become too close for comfort to Viktor Orban’s Fidesz of Hungry, the German far-right party AFD, Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud of Israel or Narendra Modi’s BJP of India.
Contemptuous of the rule of law. Populist. Flirting with the far right. Often contemptuous of minorities and, in particular, deeply hostile to Muslims.
In short, it is a party of bigots.
A poll published in 2020 by the anti-racist group Hope Not Hate showed that more than half of the Conservative Party members thought Islam was “generally a threat to the British way of life”.
The party membership embraced sinister conspiracy theories. A 2019 YouGov poll unveiled the chilling finding that two-thirds of Tory members believed parts of Britain operated under sharia law.
Almost half believed in the myth of no-go zones where “non-Muslims are not able to enter”. These attitudes were exploited by senior Tories, with then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson especially notorious for his bigoted language against Muslims.
Disgusting statements
There was also a massive problem with Islamophobic bigotry among the Tory grassroots, as the Muslim Council of Britain proved beyond doubt in 2020 when it provided a list of more than 100 cases involving party members, councillors and officials.They had made disgusting statements about Muslims, calling for them to leave the country, making provocative insults about the Prophet Muhammad, and peddling malicious lies.
Three years ago, pressure began to mount for the Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) to investigate Islamophobia inside the Conservative Party.
In what looked like an attempt to head it off, the Conservatives responded by commissioning a supposedly independent report into Islamophobia (and other forms of discrimination) within its ranks, conducted by Professor Swaran Singh of the University of Warwick.
This was a very odd announcement. The term Islamophobia appeared in quotation marks in the Tory party inquiry’s terms of reference – strongly suggesting that the Tories are flirting with the idea, popular even in respectable Conservative circles, that Islamophobia doesn’t exist.
It was no surprise, therefore, when the Singh report appeared two years ago, that it largely steered clear of issues of institutional racism and, in particular, Islamophobia, as Zainab Gulamali pointed out in Middle East Eye at the time….
This is the favorite tactic on the Left: smear anyone with whom you disagree a racist. You do not have to listen to any policy discussion. You do not have to develop policies of your own that actually work. You don’t have to think. Calling someone Islamophobic makes it so easy.
This smear tactic is for people without a shred of intellectual honesty or integrity. People with integrity on the Left have to wrestle with why Islam, the name which actually means “submission,” is a “religion of freedom.” They next have to wrestle with the complete and total subjugation of women and girls who are taught they are “too dirty” to touch the Koran. They have to ask themselves why radical Islamists want to convert the entire globe to be Muslim and/or make the non-converted live in Dhimmi status, i.e., not fully legal status in society. They might have to think about why the Koran makes it acceptable to lie, cheat or murder someone who is a non-believer.
Why trouble yourself to consider what Islam actually is, when you can virtue signal to your leftist friends and smear your fellow human being who does take the time to understand what Islam actually is?
The left does this all the time. They have no policies that work. Their belief system is a house of cards. Their policies on abortion and gender are insane and destructive of the nuclear family, and destructive of a culture of life and belief in God. They attempt to replace belief in God with belief that a man can be a woman and get pregnant and can “chest feed.” They are trying to normalize pedophilia. They are getting closer and closer to worshipping Satan every day.