Hindus warnen Labour vor einer „abschreckenden“ Definition von Islamophobie

„Hindu community leaders have warned Sir Keir Starmer that Labour’s new Islamophobia definition will have a “significant chilling effect” on freedom of speech.
They say it conflates hostility towards Muslims with criticism of the religion of Islam, which would mean Hindus speaking about their historical persecution under Islamic empires in South Asia would fall foul of the definition.

Last week, the Hindu Council UK wrote a letter to Steve Reed, the Communities Secretary, saying there was a “serious” risk that the definition could suppress legitimate criticism of contemporary Islamist ideology out of fear of breaching a “poorly defined standard of ‘anti-Muslim hostility’”.

It also claimed that it could also lead to the backdoor reintroduction of a blasphemy law that would protect Islam without according the same rights to other religions.

“By granting heightened protection to a religion-linked identity through concepts such as ‘racialisation’ and ‘collective stereotyping’, the proposed definition continues to risk shielding Islamic beliefs and practices from scrutiny in practice, if not in law,” the council said.

“This is especially troubling given that the UK deliberately abolished blasphemy laws to ensure that no belief system is beyond challenge.”

It is entirely rational to be fearful of Islam. The idea of making it illegal to express this fear is insane.

I don’t see why poltical and ideological groups need laws against people being critical of them.

shall we bring in a law that forbids people making fun of the EDL or Reform?

Keir Starmer next week: Hindus are far-right hooligans.

What a joke that we even have to consider a law for this – it should be ok to ridicule, criticise and make fun of any religion – full stop. There’s no Islamic race and its purely an ancient ideology along with all the rest. Shit show in the making this is.

I think this is all wild in the context of what happened to the Batley school teacher and the immediate reaction at that time of the local politicians.

Jews murdered at a synagogue in Manchester? Police thwarted plans for a second, bigger attack last week?

Better curb Islamophobia lol

No religion or ideology should be immune from criticism, nor should people be expected to simply “co-exist” with a religion that in recent times has historically been known to have members blow themselves up, behead and immolate people and so on.

It’s ridiculous.

hopefully a group of British ethnic minorities criticising this will actually convince the government ( and others ) to stop following this dangerous course.

Unfortunately if only white people are the ones making a fuss it just gives ammunition to the prejudices and preconceptions of a certain political group, albeit diverse group, of people very influential in this country’s cultural discourse. such is the state of things in the modern day.

Modern Britain doesn’t need blasphemy laws. Period.

Certain groups can coat it with all sorts of flowery language which ever way they want but that’s what this is and outlawing ( for all intents and purposes) the criticism of religion goes against a foundational pillar of Western liberal, thus British, culture.

I mean off the bat it’s just guidelines. Not law.

And secondly the wording is pretty chill. You can still say whatever you want about Islam.

Go check the BBC article for a less biased source. I’m not especially worried.

Also fuck Islam as a religion. Along with all religions.

It’s absolutely ridiculous that this is even a thing, this country is going down the drain and Labour are a joke

I’m sure they did. Ain’t nobody islamophobic like a Hindu..

As an anecdote, I heard a story where a Kashmiri Hindu in the UK was prevented from talking about her family’s ethnic cleansing by Islamists due to threats of „Islamophobia“.

Labour made it so if you criticise Israel murdering everyone then you’re anti-semitic, so I’m sure this will be fine.  

Their religion shouldn’t get special treatment / protection. All religions should be treated the same by law and freedom of speech is the most important thing.

I’d sooner the UK goes entirely secular.

Leave your religion at the door and enter a society where people focus on doing the right thing for each other.

But that’s a laughable prospect sadly.