been reading through the MCB submission to the EHRC. It& #39;s really bad. A lot of it I knew already, a fair amount I didn& #39;t. But even the stuff I already knew hits harder when it& #39;s all laid out there in full.
Definitely worth reading for yourself:
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Definitely worth reading for yourself:
https://mcb.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/20200305-MCB-EHRC-Request-Conservative-Islamophobia.pdf">https://mcb.org.uk/wp-conten...
Some claim the problem isn& #39;t institutional... well, the Tories only investigation of an MP for Islamophobia was of Johnson& #39;s comments about women wearing the burka which actually cleared him and concluded he was "respectful and tolerant"
Zac Goldsmith& #39;s islamophobic campaign should have ended his career, but he is now rewarded by a seat in the lords, having faced no censure.
Let me remind you that the christchurch killers manifesto begins:
"it& #39;s the birthrates
it& #39;s the birthrates
it& #39;s the birthrates"
"it& #39;s the birthrates
it& #39;s the birthrates
it& #39;s the birthrates"
Honestly Gove gets off extremely lightly here, there& #39;s plenty of other evidence of Goves views, including his positive reviews of Douglas Murrays books
staggering numbers of islamophobic councillors, I& #39;ll just tweet some lowlights (what I have tweeted so far is not exhaustive either, definitely worth reading the document yourself if you have the time and want to get a sense of the scale)
This is chloe Westerly, special advisor to the PM (heading cut off on the other page), it& #39;s worse than this though, when she was caught out on this she said she hadn& #39;t read the article, these screenshots show that is implausible, but the Tories clearly accepted it h/t @hughster
This is how the document concludes, and I have nothing really to add, it really is astounding that anyone could deny the scale of the problem.
The above screenshots are just a small portion of the examples, there are hundreds of others I would advise people to take a look through if they really want to get a sense of the scale.