Are Labour trying to restore a law of blasphemy through the back door.

 

Christopher Hitchens

Under Keir Starmer, Britain is becoming like a Stasi-like police state. Boris Johnson said recently that there were around 10,000 arrest each year for comments that people had made on social media.

The crime of blasphemy was abolished many years ago in Britain but Starmer's Labour government are trying to bring it back through the back door. Christopher Hitchens called 'Islamophobia' a 'shady term' and warned that anyone accused of it would be instructed to shut up and forfeit their right to criticise religion. Hitchens said, "Faith makes huge claims, including huge claims to have temporal authority over citizens, which therefore cannot be exempt from scrutiny."

When the former Labour MP Ann Cryer, spoke about Asian grooming gangs in Yorkshire who were sexually abusing young white girls, she was accused of 'Islamophobia' by many of her Labour colleague's. When the Labour MP Rosie Duffield said that only women had a cervix, she was accused of 'transphobia' by many of her Labour colleagues. When Starmer, a politically correct dipstick, told us that 99.9% of women didn't have a penis, many of us knew that this was preposterous - nonsense upon stilts, but he wanted us to collude in his fiction. As G.K Chesterton said, "Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions."

I remember the case of the Batley Grammar School teacher who was hounded out of his job when he was accused of 'Islamophobia'. A mob turned up at the school demanding his dismissal. I believe that this man is still in hiding because he fears for his life and the life of his family. What Labour is trying to do will make these kinds of incidents more prevalent. Introducing a law of "Islamophobia' will open a Pandora's Box.