Professor Swaran Singh, “the newly appointed chair of the Conservative party’s inquiry into its handling of complaints about discrimination, including Islamophobia, has been plunged into a row over comments he made about the disputed Kashmir region….Singh, a Sikh of Indian heritage who said he experienced discrimination when he migrated to Britain nearly 30 years ago, wrote another piece in which he claimed it was not realistic for the UK to live to a standard ‘where every individual is non-racist’. He also argued that ‘the racism charge’ forced politicians to ‘act before they have had time to think.'”
The Muslim Baroness Sayeeda Warsi is enraged because Singh “wrote a piece for an online publication whose editor has dismissed Islamophobia as a term designed to shut down criticism of Islam.”
Yet that is absolutely correct. The “Islamophobia” canard has been shoved down the throats of Brits to shut down scrutiny and criticism of Islam, just as in other Western countries.
Warsi is bad news for the UK. Jihad Watch reported in August:
The Conservatives will face an independent inquiry into Islamophobia, party chairman James Cleverly has confirmed. The investigation comes after a YouGov survey for Channel 4’s Dispatches programme found that 56 per cent of the Tory membership thought Islam was ‘generally a threat’ to the British way of life and just 22 per cent thought it was ‘generally compatible’….
Monitoring citizens and political parties in the West for “Islamophobia” is akin to monitoring for blasphemy under the Islamic Sharia.
Unsurprisingly, “former party chairman Baroness Sayeeda Warsi told Metro.co.uk: ‘I welcome the acceptance of my party for finally recognising the need for an independent inquiry into Islamophobia.”
Baroness Warsi thinks it’s up to the “paranoid” government to make Muslims feel welcome, and has accused the Conservative Party of using “dangerous” hatred of Muslims to win elections.
Warsi was also the first Muslim woman to sit in Cabinet; she gave official posts to Islamic supremacists.
“Tory Islamophobia inquiry chair in row over Kashmir views,” Simon Murphy, Guardian, December 18, 2019:
The newly appointed chair of the Conservative party’s inquiry into its handling of complaints about discrimination, including Islamophobia, has been plunged into a row over comments he made about the disputed Kashmir region.
The Tory peer Sayeeda Warsi questioned the views of Prof Swaran Singh, who was announced on Tuesday as the chair of the review, after he wrote a piece for an online publication whose editor has dismissed Islamophobia as a term designed to shut down criticism of Islam.
Warsi highlighted sections of the article in which Singh, who is a former equality and human rights commissioner, argued that the Kashmir conflict had been portrayed as a tragedy only for Muslims and that, for many, Sikhs and Hindus “do not meet the criteria of victimhood”.
Singh, a Sikh of Indian heritage who said he experienced discrimination when he migrated to Britain nearly 30 years ago, wrote another piece in which he claimed it was not realistic for the UK to live to a standard “where every individual is non-racist”. He also argued that “the racism charge” forced politicians to “act before they have had time to think”.
It comes as the Conservatives have faced criticism from the Muslim Council of Britain over the inquiry’s remit which, it argued, “threatens to ignore the systemic problems of Islamophobia in the party”. The council also expressed “deep reservations about the appointed chair”.
Singh, a professor of social and community psychiatry at the University of Warwick, wrote earlier this year that “the world media has an easy interpretation of the Kashmir problem – a nationalistic India persecuting a Muslim minority state.”
In a series of tweets, Warsi – who has spent years campaigning against Islamophobia in the Conservative party – quoted from Singh’s article in August about Kashmir, adding an embarrassed face emoji: “Ladies and Gentlemen I give you some views of the newly appointed Chairman of the ‘Independent review into all forms of discrimination and prejudice including Islamophobia’@Conservatives I will let you make your own mind up.”..