from Religion Media Centre
The government is expected to publish its new cohesion strategy “Protecting What Matters”, this afternoon.
News leaked to the Spectator and the story is also in The Independent and Guardian.
The strategy is expected to include a new definition of Islamophobia and the suggestion that there should be a new “anti-Muslim hostility tsar”.
It’s reported that it will reject calls for a blasphemy law, pledge to stand against those who try to intimidate others, promise powers to close extremist charities, tackle extremism at universities, exclude hate preachers from the UK, demand that new arrivals seek to integrate and speak good English, and will outlines the threat to cohesion from extremists.
It will also say everyone must embrace LGBT rights and there will be new rules to tackle divisive content in the media. The strategy is expected to say that Britain’s “historic social cohesion that has kept us united in the face of adversity” is now under threat.