BRITAIN'S PEOPLE REJECT "ISLAM-o-PHOBIA" COUNCIL AND ANY FORM OF ASSOCIATED SO-CALLED BLASPHEMY EDICTS

The UK Government formally abolished the nation's "blasphemy" law in 2008 (2024 in Scotland). Britain's heritage, customs, values, monarch and state church are Christian, based upon The Holy Bible. Effectively, blasphemy against Jesus Christ and the God of The Holy Bible was removed from the UK statute books.

Why, then, are concerted attempts being made to create a special place in Christian Britain for Islam?

There is no place in the UK for any edicts relating to Islam, any of the other religions that are permitted under Britain's plural approach, ideology or belief system.

Freedom to criticise, satirise, offend remains a fundamental part of Free Speech which is foundational to our other freedoms. Natural Law and legislation set the boundary: do no harm to another.

It is time for this matter to be buried once-and-for-all.

#freespeech

#noislamophobialaw

#commonsense

#noblasphemylaw

See post from The Free Speech Union on this:

Less than 24 hours after a man pleaded guilty in Manchester to a racially aggravated public order offence for burning a Quran — effectively instituting de facto blasphemy laws in the UK — Labour has announced plans for an ‘Islamophobia’ advisory council.

The timing couldn’t be worse for free speech. The 16-member panel proposed by Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner will advise the Government on an official definition of 'Islamophobia', a move that risks stifling the kind of criticism and satire of Islam that should be perfectly legitimate in a secular, pluralist democracy.

Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick has condemned the plan, calling it “a Trojan horse for a blasphemy law protecting Islam”.

Among those lined up to chair the council is Dominic Grieve, an arch-Remainer and ex-Conservative MP who previously endorsed the controversial All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) definition of 'Islamophobia', which frames it in dangerously vague and subjective terms as “a type of racism that targets expressions of Muslimness or perceived Muslimness”.

At the FSU, we fear this definition, if adopted, will be weaponised to censor debate and criminalise satire, criticism, or even academic discussion of Islam.

With the Home Office also considering expanding the recording of non-crime hate incidents for Islamophobia, the trajectory under this Labour government is clear: free speech is under attack.

See the article: Angela Rayner to set rules on Islam and free speech