It’s been a bad week for the massed battalions of politicians and journalists who have made common cause with fascists about the threat that Muslims pose to Britain.
They should be named: Nigel Farage, who said with no evidence that three-quarters of Muslims pose no threat to Britain – meaning that one-quarter do.
Suella Braverman did more as home secretary to legitimise Islamophobia than anyone else, and was sacked for questioning the impartiality of the police force over which she as minister had responsibility.
Douglas Murray, the weirdly acceptable face of the hard right, said that Britain needed a “toolbox approach to dealing with the enemy of Islamist extremism”, and that this would involve “people who you and I don’t like” but needed to deal with.
In 2018, Murray called for the release of the English Defence League (EDL)’s founder, Tommy Robinson, and described the organisation as “a street-protest movement in Britain whose aims could probably best be summarized as ‘anti-Islamization’”…..more
