People are tired of hearing about ‘Islamophobia,’ study finds
A study from the Commission for Countering Extremism, a UK governmental organization, has found that the public is tired of hearing about “Islamophobia.”
According to the survey, 39% of voters say Islam is overprotected by British laws, and a third of voters say they self-censor criticism of Islam to avoid being accused of “Islamophobia.” Just 18% think Islam isn’t protected enough.
“Islam is the only religion asked about where a larger proportion of the public think it is protected too much,” the report stated.
Bringing back blasphemy laws to protect Islam
The study comes as senior British officials prepare to codify a definition for the word “Islamophobia,” one that critics say will amount to a blasphemy law and disproportionately protect Islam from criticism. First introduced in medieval times, the UK’s prohibition against blasphemy outlawed criticism of Christianity. The law was abolished in 2008. The effort to define “Islamophobia” is being championed by Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner.
Recently, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) tried to revive the blasphemy law in the case of Hamit Coskun, an atheist who fled his native Turkey to escape persecution from Islamists. In February, Coskun staged a public protest against Islam outside the Turkish consulate in London where he publicly burned a Koran while shouting “f*ck Islam” and “Islam is religion of terrorism.” He was violently attacked by a man named Moussa Kadri, who later pleaded guilty to the assault and will face trial in 2027. Coskun was arrested.
The CPS originally charged Coskun with “intent to cause against the religious institution of Islam harassment, alarm or distress.” This was met with criticism for essentially amounting to a blasphemy law, since the government was treating the religion itself as a victim. The CPS amended the charge, arguing that Coskun had committed a criminal act because he caused “harassment, alarm or distress” motivated by hatred for the followers of Islam.
Covering up Islamic pedophile rings
The British government has gone to great lengths to avoid offending Muslims, who comprise roughly 7% of the population. Last month, a report found that the government suppressed evidence of Pakistani Muslim pedophile gangs to avoid accusations of racism.
Between the 1990s and the 2010s, thousands of young White girls in the UK as young as 10 were sexually exploited by Pakistani pedophile rings. In the town of Rotherham alone, an estimated 1,400 children were sexually assaulted by such gangs, subjected to molestation, gang rapes, beatings, and intimidation. Some minors were doused in gasoline and threatened with being burned alive if they reported the sexual offenses to anyone.
According to one analysis, Pakistanis comprise roughly two-thirds of pedophiles but just 4% of the population. A majority of them are Muslim migrants.
Victims and their parents arrested
Many of the victims who sought justice were turned away by British authorities, who feared appearing racist. A recent audit conducted by Baroness Louise Casey on behalf of the British government found that when victims reported the sexual assaults to police, they were “ignored, treated like criminals and often arrested themselves.” In several cases, girls as young as 13 who were found being sexually exploited by several Pakistani men were arrested for being drunk and disorderly. The men were not charged. In other cases, parents were arrested when they tried to rescue their children from these pedophile rings.
Casey’s report confirmed that police deliberately did not record the ethnicity of the sex offenders because it might be seen as racist. Public officials have ignored the issue “for fear of appearing racist, raising community tensions or causing community cohesion problems.”
“I think you've got sort of do-gooders that don't really want this to be found because, you know, 'Oh, God, then all the racists are going to be more racist,’” Casey said.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who in 2008 was the director of public prosecutions (DPP), has been accused of assisting in the cover-up of the Pakistani pedophile rings.
‘They are still all Muslim’
Maggie Oliver, a former Greater Manchester Police detective, says the problem is not that the pedophile rings are Pakistani but that they are overwhelmingly Muslim.
“I have seen nationalities that are not Pakistani men in these gangs,” she told GB News. “But many of them are Afghanistani or Iranian or Iraqi. But they are still all Muslim. And it is an issue when we see increasing numbers of illegal immigration into the country, where many of those immigrants share the same belief systems and different ways of treating women.”
