UK Muslim group says New leader must tackle Islamophobia within ruling party
July 15, 2022, 9:16 am

UK Muslim group says New leader must tackle Islamophobia within ruling party

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The head of the UK’s leading Muslim organization said that the new British prime minister must treat “systemic” Islamophobia in the ruling Conservative Party seriously.

Zara Mohammed, secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain, said that the party searches for outgoing Premier Boris Johnson’s successor, whoever wins “must represent everybody and they have to make sure that they do that fairly,” the Anadolu Agency reported.

She said in an exclusive interview published by the British newspaper Metro on Thursday (July 14) that “We’d like to see these new candidates actually take this issue seriously, because it is quite deep-seated.”

“We found over 300 cases, as well as senior members of the party themselves complaining about the problem.”

She emphasized the need for “a commitment to zero tolerance on Islamophobia – a party pledge that there will be action where there are Islamophobic comments, whether that is dismissal, whether that is disciplinary.”

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She added that the party leadership must make clear that such behavior is “totally unacceptable.”

Mohammed did not discuss any one of the five candidates left in the race for the premiership, but did call out Johnson for his “alarming radio silence” on the issue and comments comparing women who wear the burqa to “letterboxes and bank robbers.”

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She said: “We’ve yet to see any apology on that. I think the impact that had on Muslim women was real.”

“We did see a spike in hate crime, particularly against Muslim women who did wear the burqa or the veil after that, and even a confidence in racists and bigots feeling that they were entitled to say such things or do things like that.”

She said Muslim communities felt there was a lack of “effective outreach” by Johnson’s government.

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She said: “I think is a time for us to see a leadership that is inclusive, that is willing to work with Muslim communities and all communities. We want to see that across the political spectrum, but certainly in the Conservatives with the leadership election coming up.”

“Can we get a politics that we can be proud of, as opposed to embarrassed of?”

The Conservative Campaign Headquarters said it could not comment until the end of the leadership race in September.

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