She kept quiet after being warned that if she continued to raise the issue she would be “ostracised by colleagues” and her “career and reputation would be destroyed”
She was told by a whip that her “‘Muslimness was raised as an issue”
This is an issue many have raised for years
The Party thought that an inquiry that was set up to fail, would brush this under the carpet
But with the underlying issues with the Party's culture not dealt with, the problem will not go away.
The @EHRC's failure to act on Conservative Party Islamophobia looks *even more* unjustifiable
Let's see whether it will revisit its decision to be silent in the face of racism from our ruling Party
I'm not holding my breath
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Islamophobia is endemic in @Conservatives: A survey into Islamophobia amongst its party members suggested
- 2/3 of Tory members believe the Islamophobic far right conspiracy that parts of UK are under Sharia law
- Nearly 1/2 prefer not to have a Muslim PM theguardian.com/politics/2019/…
More than half of those Conservative Party members surveyed (56%) by YouGov think the religion is "generally a threat" to the British way of life. news.sky.com/story/tory-mem…
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the anti-apartheid veteran called South Africa's moral conscience, famously said: "If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor" & applied this to today
Many will celebrate his understanding of oppression & his status as South Africa's moral conscience but ignore his views on today's oppression & apartheid
ICYMI: he called on the US Presbyterian Church to boycott Israel & condemn it as an apartheid state haaretz.com/tutu-israel-is…
His first article in the Guardian in 2002, was on this topic
It is appropriate that on Stephen Pollard's last day as Editor of the Jewish Chronicle, it publishes this disgusting headline.
As people examine his tenure, I wonder if they actually are aware of the positions the Jewish Chronicle published during his tenure as Editor?
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After 51 Muslims were killed in a terror attack in a mosque in Christchurch, The Jewish Chronicle *chose* to publish this disgusting piece by Melanie Phillips playing down Islamophobia.
Some might say the case studies are only the bad apples
Yet the report dispels this myth by showing how widespread the issue is, based on detailed analysis of more than 48,000 print articles & 5,500 TV clips that mentioned Muslims or Islam
Denial of the scale of Islamophobia in the Conservative Party is no longer acceptable
Will @BrandonLewis, Chair of @Conservatives, now apologise after he said: "I would dispute that [Islamophobia in the party] is an issue that exists in the first place"?
Will former Deputy Chairman @JamesCleverly apologise, after he had said he didn't agree with @SayeedaWarsi assessment of "almost weekly occurrences of Islamophobic incidents".