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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44311092

The Muslim Council of Britain has reiterated a call for the Conservatives to launch an independent inquiry into alleged Islamophobia within the party.

The MCB has repeatedly demanded an investigation, and says there are now "more than weekly incidents" involving Tory candidates and representatives.

In an open letter, it tells chairman Brandon Lewis he must "ensure racists and bigots have no place" in the party.

A Tory spokesman said it took all incidents of Islamophobia seriously.

The latest letter from the MCB lists a series of incidents it says took place during April and at the beginning of May.


<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en-gb"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">We are calling for an independent inquiry into Islamophobia in the Conservative Party following more than weekly occurrences of Islamophobia in the party last month <a href="https://t.co/ymkFRDs5sF">pic.twitter.com/ymkFRDs5sF</a></p>— MCB (@MuslimCouncil) <a href="https://twitter.com/MuslimCouncil/status/1001914876992868352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">30 May 2018</a></blockquote>
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Excellent stuff. Great to see Muslims following their Jewish brothers in asserting themselves in British politics and taking an active role.
 
[MENTION=132715]Varun[/MENTION] you must see your way working.
 
People who are islamophobic need tender loving care instead of being ridiculed. Muslims must reach out to them that there is nothing to fear us and come let me give you a hug.
 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en-gb"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Worth noting that the Muslim Council of Britain has been calling for the Tories to hold an inquiry into Islamophobia since the notorious campaign against Sadiq Khan in 2016, but have basically been ignored <a href="https://t.co/1kwLpf5Rcg">https://t.co/1kwLpf5Rcg</a></p>— Jon Stone (@joncstone) <a href="https://twitter.com/joncstone/status/1002102591961075713?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">31 May 2018</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en-gb"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The <a href="https://twitter.com/MuslimCouncil?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MuslimCouncil</a> is calling on the Conservatives to launch an independent inquiry into Islamophobia within the party.<a href="https://twitter.com/miqdaad?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@miqdaad</a> explains why <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/VictoriaLIVE?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#VictoriaLIVE</a> <a href="https://t.co/BbtYI7vIgV">pic.twitter.com/BbtYI7vIgV</a></p>— Victoria Derbyshire (@VictoriaLIVE) <a href="https://twitter.com/VictoriaLIVE/status/1002110853515128832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">31 May 2018</a></blockquote>
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Peter Oborne excellent as always

http://www.middleeasteye.net/column...theresa-may-and-consverative-party-1972248379

For the last six months, Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party has been convulsed by persistent allegations that it is a cesspit of anti-Semitism. Yesterday, the focus of attention shifted. Now it is the Conservative Party which is in the firing line. It faces devastating charges that it has been guilty of bigotry and bias against Muslims.

The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) is demanding a formal inquiry into this Tory bigotry. And it has put together a very powerful dossier containing many examples of dreadful conduct by Tory politicians.

Pathetic actions
Readers of MEE will be aware that I have repeatedly drawn attention to this very serious problem. I have shown how it is impossible for a practising Muslim to make his or her way to the senior ranks of the Tory party. True, Home Secretary Sajid Javid comes from a Muslim background. But he is very much the exception that proves the rule, because he has abandoned his Muslim roots on his road to the top.

By contrast, Sayeeda Warsi, who spoke out courageously on issues of concern to ordinary Muslims, was sidelined and eventually resigned in disgust over Tory policy on Gaza. She has since become the object of a truly vicious whispering campaign. Meanwhile, actions taken by the Tory government to confront Islamophobia have been pathetic.

It should be also noted that the MCB has also played a hugely powerful role in exposing the lies and falsehoods published in the British press about Islam

Worse still, Tell MAMA, the officially funded and approved organisation set up several years ago by Eric Pickles to confront Islamophobia, has been spineless. It has failed to confront the Tories over their Islamophobia. When I asked Tell MAMA to help me compile a report on Tory anti-Muslim bigotry 18 months ago, it promised to help, then failed to deliver.

And it has disgracefully failed to provide a statement of support for the MCB yesterday. Fortunately, the MCB has done the job which Tell MAMA ought to have done, and demanded public action.

MCB's powerful role
It should be noted that no Tory minister has ever had dealings with the MCB since David Cameron took office in 2010, on the grounds that it is a so-called extremist organisation. It should also be noted that the MCB has also played a hugely powerful role in exposing the lies and falsehoods published in the British press about Islam.

Miqdaad Versi, the assistant secretary general of the MCB, deserves huge praise for the way he has forced scores of corrections from British newspapers over the last two years. Crucially, Sayeeda Warsi, the former Tory party chair, before her honourable resignation over Gaza five years ago, has thrown her weight behind the MCB inquiry.

As a former Tory minister, Warsi knows the party better than anyone. As I have revealed in MEE, Warsi has repeatedly raised her concern about Tory Islamophobia in letters to successive party chairmen, and also to Prime Minister May.

A huge challenge
I understand she has complained about the conduct of Bob Blackman, the Tory MP for Harrow East. Blackman's record on Muslims is dark, so much so that I do not believe that a party which professes decent values should permit him to be an MP.

Shamefully he invited Tapan Ghosh, a Hindu extremist who has called for the UN to control the birth rate of Muslims, praised the genocide of the Rohingya in Myanmar, and tweeted "all Muslims are jihadis" to an event in the House of Commons.

The Conservative Party: Slowly turning into a Muslim-free zone

I believe that May ought to have censured Blackman. Instead, she actually launched her recent local election campaign in Blackman's London constituency. This suggests that the prime minister may be complicit in Blackman's bigotry.

I can only imagine the press outcry which would have ensued had a Labour MP hosted a Muslim extremist as foul as Ghosh in Parliament. This shows the existence of a very ugly double standard, which the Tories urgently need to address.

The MCB investigation poses a huge challenge for Theresa May and her party chairman, Brandon Lewis. So far, both of them have ignored repeated warnings that there is cesspit of anti-Muslim bigotry inside the modern Conservative Party. It is way past time that they woke up and confronted the problem.
 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en-gb"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Since Tory Islamophobia is back in the news today, thanks to the efforts of <a href="https://twitter.com/miqdaad?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@miqdaad</a> & <a href="https://twitter.com/MuslimCouncil?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MuslimCouncil</a> among others, I'm re-upping this <a href="https://twitter.com/theintercept?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@theintercept</a> piece I wrote on the issue, and on Theresa May's blind eye to it, last year:<a href="https://t.co/jDFqosNAiV">https://t.co/jDFqosNAiV</a></p>— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) <a href="https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/1002612188325072897?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">1 June 2018</a></blockquote>
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Are we going to get the same outcry as we did with anti-Semitism in the Labour Party or will this be brushed under the carpet ?
 
and Polly Toynbee of the 'Liberal' Guardian called herself a 'proud Islamophobe'
 
s28 said:
and Polly Toynbee of the 'Liberal' Guardian called herself a 'proud Islamophobe'
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The Guardian claims to be left wing and liberal but most of its writers are as bad as the folks at the sun or the daily mail. Its a zionist run paper, lets call it what it is.
 
Indeed.

Anyway. Another senior Tory Muslim (now Labour) condemning the racism and Islamophobia she experienced in Tory Party

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en-gb"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">"As I cast my mind back to my Conservative party journey, I realise I was often made to feel like some sort of exotic exhibit. I was the token, tick box exercise – a modern Muslim woman that they could show off." <a href="https://twitter.com/NewStatesman?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NewStatesman</a> <a href="https://t.co/VE2X8oeNrg">https://t.co/VE2X8oeNrg</a></p>— Shazia Awan-Scully (@ShaziaAwan) <a href="https://twitter.com/ShaziaAwan/status/1002567015175983104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">1 June 2018</a></blockquote>
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mani1 said:
I wonder what Sajid Javed has to say about this.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">"Look at who the home secretary is" - Sajid Javid insists that Islamophobia is not a problem in the Conservative Party <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Marr?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Marr</a> <a href="https://t.co/hlCXnA3DYF">https://t.co/hlCXnA3DYF</a> <a href="https://t.co/UzGRSOAVWu">pic.twitter.com/UzGRSOAVWu</a></p>— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/1003201792300072960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 3, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
Gabbar Singh said:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">"Look at who the home secretary is" - Sajid Javid insists that Islamophobia is not a problem in the Conservative Party <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Marr?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Marr</a> <a href="https://t.co/hlCXnA3DYF">https://t.co/hlCXnA3DYF</a> <a href="https://t.co/UzGRSOAVWu">pic.twitter.com/UzGRSOAVWu</a></p>— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/1003201792300072960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 3, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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He isn't Muslim, so what point is he trying to make?
 
Yes. Theresa May being female PM means Tory Party can't be sexist.

No sexism now exists in Britain.

Society is completely cleansed of all problems for women.

Women stop your nagging and get back to the kitchen. Nothing to see here.
 
s28 said:
Yes. Theresa May being female PM means Tory Party can't be sexist.

No sexism now exists in Britain.

Society is completely cleansed of all problems for women.

Women stop your nagging and get back to the kitchen. Nothing to see here.
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But Of course. How many times we have heard that India had a muslim president and sikh PM, and Pakistan had a hindu chief justice.

These are irrefutable evidence that minorities are thriving and any one who says otherwise is lying or ignorant.
 
Sadly the Islamophobia is at an all time high in the UK these days even though I don't live there but I have many acquaintances there who are Islamophobic and when you confront them they say that it is dark humour etc. They are not just islamophobic but also racist and the saddest thing about this is that most of them come from British Indians too.
 
Baroness Warsi spot on

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en-gb"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Re: inquiry into <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Islamophobia?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Islamophobia</a> in the Tory Party, <a href="https://twitter.com/sajidjavid?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@sajidjavid</a> is "simply wrong" acc. to <a href="https://twitter.com/SayeedaWarsi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SayeedaWarsi</a> on <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Channel4?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Channel4</a>. as evidence is "overwhelming". She urges <a href="https://twitter.com/Conservatives?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Conservatives</a> to not "shoot the messenger" & "stop being denial" because "it will ruin our reputation for years to come" <a href="https://t.co/HDc36lqluu">pic.twitter.com/HDc36lqluu</a></p>— Miqdaad Versi (@miqdaad) <a href="https://twitter.com/miqdaad/status/1003334344080089094?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">3 June 2018</a></blockquote>
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The Conservative Party is certainly an uncomfortable place to be a Muslim. Sajid Javid has been the Asian community’s biggest success in the Party, but religiously I believe that he is an Atheist (former Muslim) who married a Christian woman. I don’t think that the Tory Party is racist anymore (it used to be) - but moderately Islamophohic, yes definitely.
 
James said:
The Conservative Party is certainly an uncomfortable place to be a Muslim. Sajid Javid has been the Asian community’s biggest success in the Party, but religiously I believe that he is an Atheist (former Muslim) who married a Christian woman. I don’t think that the Tory Party is racist anymore (it used to be) - but moderately Islamophohic, yes definitely.
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One could argue their current foreign secretary is most certainly racist. He referred to black people as piccaninnies and referred to Africa as having watermelon smiles.

How it basically works is politicians are asked to sell their souls to become friends of Israel(the originators and supporters of Islamaphobia world wide) and many have in both Labour and Tory party but more so in the Tory party now since JC has come into play.

Of course the odd Uncle Tom such as Sajid will be shown as the face of tolerance, as deception is the key weapon in todays world.
 
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