4 Islamic MPs is "enough" 😂And you are really trying to maintain that you are not Islamophobic. Apparently approximately 6.5% of the British population identify as Muslim. If there were proportionally represented that would be about 40 MPs.
Weirdly, while accusing me of Islamophobia, you appear to have lumped the openly pro Gaza/Islamic MPs in with all other Muslims.
You do know that there are lots of other Muslim MPs? We’ve even got a Muslim Home Secretary in case you missed her? And not all of them agree with the pro Gaza/pro Islamic MPs?
How is it not islamophobic to not be able to imagine that ANY muslim might care about any of the other policies that the Greens may have and ONLY care about Gaza? That is, of course, an islamophobic generalisation.
Except that wasn’t what I said. I agreed with PP that generally people who follow a naturally socially conservative religion are less likely to be keen on the extremely so called ‘progressive’ policies of the Greens. It’s like you are trying to pretend that the religious beliefs of Muslims don’t exist - majority in favour of curtailing gay rights, sex segregation, subjugation of women through dress and social restrictions etc.
There are also the more extreme practitioners of Islam who support the 4 hardline Gaza/Islamic MPs. These MPs ran in a platform of only supporting Muslim interests. They do not support their non Muslim constituents. Many Muslim MPs have also voted against the rape gangs inquiry and against first cousin marriage. Bizarrely, 20 Labour MPs (possibly Muslim) petitioned the Pakistani government to build a new airport in Mirpur- the homeland of many of our Pakistani Muslim immigrants. I wonder why?
Before you start chucking around accusations of Islamophobia I’d have a bit more of a think.
This article gives more detail.
In these Labour heartlands, changing demographics have resulted in changing political priorities — and the size of the Muslim population has reached a critical mass, at which Muslim voters no longer need to press their concerns through a national party.
To some extent, this is nothing new. For decades, Muslim voters exercised disproportionate influence over our politics through the Labour Party. Through effective political organisation and lobbying, the Muslim community was able to make itself a core feature of Labour’s support in London, Birmingham and the post-industrial North. Muslim support for Labour candidates was rewarded, through Labour’s advocacy for the issues that matter to Muslims. In this sense, the Muslim voting bloc operated no differently to other special interest groups — much ink has been spilled about the Tory Party’s traditional reliance on the so-called “grey vote”.
thecritic.co.uk/how-the-muslim-vote-is-reshaping-british-politics/