To want a way to label the reasonable fear of the variety of Islam that wishes to impose Sharia law?

Since that has already happened though, we are where we are.

We need to use words like Islamophobia, antisemitism, transphobia, homophobia, racism etc carefully. Otherwise they become meaningless and people stop listening.

There is a way to label it surely - isn't it just "Fear of religious extremism" ?

Islamophobia is the same as transphobia these days, just a way to shut down debate around issues that affect women

In my area recently there was a protest outside the home of a Muslim family who kept a puppy in the back garden 24/7 with nothing but a small wooden kennel and wet blankets. Dog shit everywhere. Never allowed in the house
RSPCA wouldn't do anything so a peaceful protest happened.

I was there from start to finish (when thw police seized the dog)

Next day there were multiple people saying it was islamaphobic, that people were chanting racist things, that the family were physically attacked and that the only reason so many people were there is because they hate Muslims 🤔

Non of that happened.

It was an animal welfare issue.

The same happens whenever anyone tries to discuss the parking outside mosque, it's suddenly about islamophobia and people wouldn't complain if it was a Christian church 🤔

Of course they would because it's about the cars on narrow roads not the ethnicity of thw people driving!

It just seems to me that tou can't make any justified criticism of Muslims now without being called racist

I watched some of the hate filled 'British Police, go to Hell' 'UK got to Hell' demo Stacey Dooley covered. What I would like to know are where are the counter demonstrations? Why aren't the non extremist Muslims out on the streets 'not in my name' outnumbering them? These people are allowed to be the mouth piece of Islam and are dragging its name through the dirt. They do a lot more damage to the image of Islam than some cartoons do. Why aren't ordinary Muslims up in arms about demos like this and things like death threats to teachers. Why aren't they out on the streets having none of it?

I am an Indian woman affected by this. I live in a predominantly Muslim area, try to just live my life. But, I am targeted by my neighbours. I have been the victim of harassment, for over a decade. Old harassing neighbours move out, new people move in and continue it. I have discovered there are a few families who lead the harassment against me but try to keep hidden. My next door neighbours were outside discussing with a Muslim man about the problem being that I "don't follow the culture and act like English people". This justifies their targeting of me apparently.

I'm just here living my life, single parent with hobbies and two large dogs - which they absolutely hate, and is now the main aim for them after all other avenues failed. They have reported me for dog noise, my dogs are very well trained, all their needs are met, they are not reactive, and very quiet considering they are working line German shepherds. I know their noise complaint will fail, I'm sure they know it too. So now they have begun trying to hit my car, and run me over.
So while many Muslims will say they don't want shariah law in the UK, there is definite harassment of women like me which goes mostly unnoticed. What makes it worse for me, is that I am stubborn, and fight back, strong, independent and confident.

Completely agree. Not just fear, actively dislike.
I detest all religions and the awful treatment of women with varying levels of control and abuse appalls me.

Actually most migrants to the U.K. are Christians.
ONS response to a FOIA on it for 2022

top 3:

219,017 Christians
152,933 No religion
74,218 Muslim

Ratio is 3 Christians immigrating to the U.K. for every 1 Muslim.

What are your reasons for this fear? I've never met a muslim in this country that would like to apply sharia law. In the same way I do not come across many extremely orthodox Christians or Jews in this country. We are a fairly Liberal country.

I think unless you live in an area, such as some in London whereby 70%+ of the population is a Muslim and it’s almost unliveable as a white, non Muslim then it’s hard to understand this. Its all well and good the leftie luvvies sitting in a townhouse in Islington or similar saying we should all just love each other, whilst they don’t have to face any of the day to day issues of being a working class person forced out of their own area / schools / community. It’s sad, it really is.

As much as I support those counter-protests, that doesn't really support your argument. Those were antiracism, not anti-Islamic extremism protests. Which suggests a definite selectivity. Maybe because of intimidation or not wanting to appear divided as a Muslim community, I don't know.

This is Stacey Dooley's visit back to her home town in Luton.

I think this demonstrates that there is something to fear from fundamentalist Islam in the UK.

I fear it. It really depends where you live, but if you live in an area that has a large and growing population of people who believe in a fundamentalist form of Islam then I think this represents a danger to some women in that area who are seen in a negative way and can be subject to insults and intimidation particularly from young men and women who have been taught they are trash, as seen in this video where Stacey is insulted and intimidated by individuals.

Surely its not the religion you 'fear' (which is a strange term to use anyway, but I'll go with it), but the regime or implementation of laws/rules within a country

And who cares if you're 'labelled' this phobic or that phobic, Ive long since past caring about being called phobic or 'ist', its just a way to shut people up.

I dont have time for any regime, culture, religion, creed, race, political viewpoint, whatever, that wants to run an inhumane system.

@Kendodd Why aren't ordinary Muslims up in arms about demos like this and things like death threats to teachers. Why aren't they out on the streets having none of it?

People have jobs and lives to hold down. How often do they need to protest in order for it to be counted?
There were numerous counter protests in the wake of the violence that sprung off the back of Southport tragedy.
Walthamstow in particular had a large one, as did other areas in and outside London.

Are they though (“free to take part”)?

If you’re a Muslim woman and insist on taking your divorce through the legal system, (because you’re, rightly, very wary / sceptical of what sort of ‘justice’ a sharia council will grant you), then you’re going to face a huge amount of criticism, even ostracism from within your wider family and community.

That’s an awful lot of pressure for anyone to face down, particularly where they’re already on the back foot, purely because of their sex.

‘So much harm has been done by Christianity over the years. In the U.K. it’s evolved but you don’t have to go far back in history to see the harm done.’

Yes, those harms like suppressing concubinage and polygamy, and saying that marriage is a sacrament between one man and one woman, both consenting adults outside dangerous degrees of consanguinity. As for all that promotion of literacy, well, who needs to read and write when you can do chanting? Visiting the sick, giving alms to the poor, establishing hospitals and free schools, campaigning (successfully) against child labour and the slave trade, it’s all just so pernicious and, well, outright ‘harmful’.

‘What did the Romans do for us? ‘

That’s got nothing to do with “law” though.
There’s a Sharia council a handful of minutes from me, if an Islamic couple want them to deal with their divorce that’s on them, it doesn’t infringe in my rights in any way.
Do I disagree with it? To an extent yes because I come from another part of the UK where women would also have to seek advice from the church and the church encouraged them to stay in shitty situations.
Ultimately people are free to take part in a religion of their choosing though whether or not any of us think it’s valid.