Labour’s Islamophobia definition ‘forbids discussion of Asian grooming gangs’, says Badenoch
by Daniel Martin, Telegraph:
Tory leader urges Sir Keir Starmer to scrap use of characterisation that means people may be too ‘scared to tell the truth’.
Labour’s definition of Islamophobia bars discussion of grooming gangs, Kemi Badenoch has told MPs.
The Tory leader used Prime Minister’s Questions to ask Sir Keir Starmer to cancel his party’s adoption of the definition used by the all-party parliamentary group (APPG) on British Muslims.
She also asked whether the Prime Minister intended to introduce a law to ensure the Government had to abide by the Islamophobia definition and he declined to rule it out.
It comes as the Conservatives accused the Government of cowardice on Wednesday night for voting down efforts to force a new national inquiry into the grooming gangs scandal.
The party also called for Pakistanis to be denied visas to come to Britain until the country agrees to take back groomers. The grooming gangs were predominantly run by British Pakistanis.
Speaking at PMQs, Mrs Badenoch said that the APPG’s definition said “talking about sex groomers was an example of Islamophobia” and claimed that this is why people were too “scared to tell the truth”.
The definition warns against using symbols and images associated with Islamophobia to “characterise Muslims as being ‘sex groomers’.”
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