Fears Labour’s Islamophobia definition could silence women’s rights campaigners - Baroness Falkner

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Labour's Islamophobia definition could be used to silence women’s rights campaigners, the recent head of the equalities watchdog has warned.

Baroness Falkner said the new definition could be weaponised against those who “dare” say that Muslim women are being suppressed.

The new definition – which has not yet been published by Communities Secretary Steve Reed – has been criticised by Tories as a route to a “de facto blasphemy law”.

Criticising the plans, Baroness Falkner told Sky News: “If they’re going to bring in yet another area where, for example, anyone who’s defending women’s rights is going to be accused by those ethnic minority men of Islamophobia, if they dare say something about how Muslim women are suppressed.

“I’m a Muslim woman myself. I know all about this.

“I know the community.”

NB source is the Sun! Link for full article https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/37562911/labour-islamophobia-definition-silence-womens-rights/

Stephen Bradbury acquitted at Derby Magistrates’ Court – The Free Speech Union https://share.google/IDbKfp4H3E8LKNQK6

The case centred on two posts on X in which Mr Bradbury criticised Naz Shah, the Labour MP for Bradford West, after she liked and shared a post from an Owen Jones parody account stating, with reference to the grooming-gangs scandal: “Those abused girls in Rotherham and elsewhere just need to shut their mouths. For the good of #diversity.”

Wow, over 1000 GC feminists!?!

Just to add to my delight.

During the trial, Ms Shah accepted that there is a disproportionate representation of Pakistani men in grooming-gang cases.

Yet no one took Naz Shah to court for her RT because those thousands of girls raped have no 'protected' characteristic. Naz Shah is a particularly thick one though. When Winnie Mandela died, she tweeted approvingly of "necklacing" having not the slightest idea of what it was. A party that is full of such thickos has no business drafting speech curtailment laws.

Sometimes I worry because it’s already too late - that Labour have done something which has given the means to stay in power as long as they want so they don’t care if we hate them, they know we have no choice. They have started by cancelling local elections - what next?

Thanks. You’ve solidified my intention to join them. Want to support.

😟That's grim.

Exactly. Look at the people we are not allowed to criticise to see who has the power.

This is very worrying
Naz Shah is a particularly thick one though. When Winnie Mandela died, she tweeted approvingly of "necklacing" having not the slightest idea of what it was.

I can’t believe anyone could be that stupid.

I agree. And yet there’s a massive difference between offending people, which may be annoying, and oppressing them, which causes them genuine harm and frequently escalates to violence, including murder.

Free speech has to include the right to offend people. Otherwise it is not free speech.

Yes. Is it just a wild coincidence that millions of Muslims are carrying out FGM?

We know the level of control achievable by Islamists where they are almost the total majority in a country.

If FGM is so ‘un-Islamic’ as PPs are so desperate to convince us - why haven’t they stopped it already and why do these Muslims want to do it?

Some very ‘silo’ed’ thinking going on by PPs.

She really is thick and worse, cannot keep away from social media. She keeps posting the offensive tweets about about others but always gets a free pass for her offensiveness.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/comments/89mvhv/labour_mp_naz_shahs_necklacing_winnie_mandela/