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THREAD: Important report by @hopenothate about how anti-Muslim racism has become the No1 driver of far right support. Over a 1/3 of Britons now believe that Islam is a threat to the "British way of life". This is frightening: how did we get here? theguardian.com/world/2019/feb…
Here's a discussion by our director @omaromalleykhan on @BBCRadio4 about what #Islamophobia is and why it needs to be understood and addressed as "anti-Muslim racism" vimeo.com/284318608
And in this @NewStatesman piece our deputy director @Zubhaque argues that anti-Muslim racism has grown because liberal elites (incl media and politicians) have been "complicit" in the growth of anti-Muslim prejudice under the guise of "free speech" newstatesman.com/politics/stagg…
