You’re probably sick of my face on telly
by now.
It’s not the living wage that was campaigned for...
like Lenin said there are 
some decades where nothing happens…
*Opinionated noises*
We see Matt Hancock age by 20 years…
Jeremy Corbyn gets into power all these billionaires will flee....
I don’t take that view…
There’s actually feminist marxist theorists
who write about this…
Winding people up probably on the right…
I love that you’ve come prepared!
Absolute nonsense!
I’m not pro-Obama!
I’ve been a critic of Obama
cause I’m literally a c--
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… but there’s one thing I literally never
get asked to talk about.
And that’s Islamophobia in the Conservative
Party.
Why?
Earlier this year it was found in a survey
by YouGov that 60% of Tory Party members think
that Islam is a threat to Western Civilisation.
*gammon fears*
54% think Islam is a threat to the British way of life.
And a previous poll found two-thirds
of Tory supporters think that there are parts
of the UK governed by Sharia law.
And it’s not just randos in the grassroots
that are the problem.
This week The Guardian
published a dossier of Tory councillors who
couldn’t help but soil themselves at the
thought of having to share a country with
people from a different religion.
Trevor Hales, a parish councillor from Sandiacre,
took to Twitter in a froth because apparantly
my Muzlamic brethren are “the enemy within”,
and wrote that “spineless” governments
had sold “us to slavery of Muslims.”
Oo er...
Beverly Dunlop, a councillor in Bournemouth,
Christchurch and Poole, posted in Facebook
groups saying: “I hate to ban anything really
but I’d suggest we start with Mosques!”
There’s Tory priorities for you - fracking
good, places of worship very bad indeed.
Hang on, she does know that we’re allowed
to pray anywhere right?
And Malcolm Griffiths, a Conservative councillor
in Redcar, approvingly quoted a Dutch fascist
who said “The genetic damage done to [the
Muslim] gene pool since their prophet allowed
first cousin marriages 1,400 years ago is
most likely massive.”
For comparison, here’s what the alleged
genetic pinnacle of Western civilisation looks like.
But it’s just grassroots randomers mouthing
off about muslims.
This form of racism goes right to the top.
[insert sassy perjorative] Boris Johnson refused
to back down over referring to Muslim women
who wear the niqab as “letterboxes” and
“bank robbers” in his Telegraph column
earlier this year.
Despite his comments being
linked to a 375% direct increase in Islamophobic
hate incidents
But Conservative party Islamophobia isn’t
just distasteful and downright offensive.
It has huge implications for how Muslims are
treated by the state.
Michael Gove’s views on Islam were described by Tory peer Sayeeda Warsi
as “deeply, deeply worrying.”
Baroness Warsi suggested that David Cameron had been radicalised by Gove’s book Celsius 7/7,
in which Michael G Unit’s selective use
of polling was used to indicate that extremist
views were commonplace amongst British Muslims.
Speaking at the time of Donald Trump’s Muslim
ban, she said “If Michael had been left
to run this [anti-extremism] policy in the
way he would run it, we would be seeing the
kind of things that we’re now seeing in
the White House.”
And despite Sajid Javid bouncing all would-be
Tory leaders into agreeing an inquiry into
their party’s Islamophobia problem during
the contest this summer, it’s since been
kicked into the long grass.
Shall we have an external investigation in the Conservative party into Islamophobia?
A few days ago Michael Gove couldn’t tell
the Today programme whether an inquiry would
be independent or internal, and suggested
it wouldn’t even focus specifically on Islamophobia
at all.
So why don’t the media take Islamophobia
in the government as seriously as they do
pockets of bigotry elsewhere? Simple. Because
they’re complicit in it too.
Earlier this year the Muslim Council of Britain
launched the Centre for Media Monitoring.
And in their debut report which analysed over
10,000 articles and clips, they found evidence
of widespread and systemic bias against Muslims
in media representations.
59% of all articles analysed, and 43% of all
broadcast, found that Muslims were associated
with negative behaviours, with ‘terrorism’
being the most frequently associated theme.
The most biased outlets tended to be from
religious or rightwing print publications,
and the worst TV programming tended to be
topical news and investigations programming.
Interestingly, national broadcast media tended
to be much more negative about Muslims than
regional media - leading the report’s authors
to suggest that while on the day-to-day and
local level, Muslim communities aren’t actually
that different from their non-Muslim neighbours,
in national representations their portrayal
is skewed to suggest their presence in the
country is some kind of existential threat.
And that means that anyone who’s perceived
to be an ally of Muslim communities in the
UK, particularly if they’re on the left,
is easily tarred as a terrorist sympathiser.
Which in turn allows Islamophobia to be laundered
through the prism of anti-socialist sentiment.
And then stuff like this happens:
I thought you’d be wearing your Islamic
jihab scarf?
Who’s going to be the first terrorist invited
to the house of commons when you’re prime minister?
It’s not just the Tory party who give the
impression that Muslims are an easy target
for discrimination. In relentlessly enforcing
a double-standard when it comes to racism,
the establishment media are letting the public
know that Islamophobia is an acceptable form
of racism, just so long as it suits the purposes
of those in power.
So if you’re wondering why the media don’t
seem to care about Tory islamophobia, the
answer is simple:
they’re up to their fucking
necks in it themselves.
*whistling*
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