Is Islamophobia on the rise within the UK Labour Party?

UK Political Parties and previous allegations of Islamophobia British political parties have long faced criticism over their failure to tackle Islamophobia within their organisations. In May 2021, the Independent Investigation into Islamophobia within the British Conservative party was released (see Euro-Islams report on Islamophobia within the British Conservative party: The Inquiry Findings). Whilst the report…

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Falling support of Muslims for UK Labour Party

On June 14th 2020 the Labour Muslim Network (LMN) released the results of their LMN-Survation 2021 and was one of the first ever opinion polls of British Muslims in the UK. It was conducted in partnership with one of the UK’s largest polling organisations – Survation, and sought to provide valuable insight into the perspectives…

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Criticism over the suspension of high-profile commentator Trevor Phillips from the Labour Party for Islamophobia draws suspicion

Trevor Phillips, the former head of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), has been suspended from the Labour Party, over a number of public statements he has made about Muslims and Islam in the UK. The letter of administrative suspension, details statements that Phillips has made in the past to warrant this suspension, suggesting…

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Debate on anti-Semitism in the Labour Party pulls in British Muslims

The debate around anti-Semitism in the Labour Party is continuing unabated, with many of the nine MPs who have recently left the Labour party to form the Independent Party stating that how anti-Semitism is being dealt with by the leadership has contributed to their decision to leave. A large part of the criticism surrounds Labour…

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Amid concern about Anjem Choudary’s release from prison, Ed Husain writes that the discourse of the Labour leadership is fuelling Islamist extremism

Writing in The Telegraph, Ed Husain says that the case of Anjem Choudary, the Islamist hate preacher who is due to be released from jail next month, demonstrates that the West “still has no answer to the Islamist ideal of the Caliphate”. He goes onto suggest that the discourse of the Labour leadership is fuelling Islamist extremism.

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