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UK: Head of Tory “Islamophobia” inquiry under fire for criticizing use of the race card

Dec 22, 2019 8:00 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

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.”..

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  1. observer says

    Dec 22, 2019 at 8:36 am

    Idiotic, lying Warsi !!!

    They’re ALL the same… the devils behind this ongoing maniacal mind-controlling ideology !!!
    They lust after world domination at any cost !

    I hope the Tories don’t capitulate.
    But the chance that they will is very high… Political correctness is stifling Western freedom/s very, very effectively.

    God help the West and, by implication, the world…

    †

    • mortimer says

      Dec 22, 2019 at 10:29 am

      Look, ‘observer’ … 85% of Muslims are not much interested in jihad or supremacism. 15% or so are supporters of terrorism and less than 1% of Muslims are jihadists. One Muslim in six or so has the attitudes you claim. So, please try to ‘observe’ at least one of the plethora of opinion polls of the various Muslim countries and you will find a plethora of attitudes and opinions.

      Muslims are not “all the same” … as you thoughtlessly maintain … you are guessing *spontaneously*, are you not? You’ve done no actual research to determine that. Please find out what Muslims say about what they think IN ATTITUDE SURVEYS and POLLS, before you reveal your lack of information on the matter. Muslims are humans who have wrong information or very limited information. We have a hard job to educate them. Most Muslims are currently living in cognitive dissonance about Islam and their dissonance increases every time a terrorist group is successful. Many Muslims have said they don’t want to be Muslim if it is the same as ISIS. They are *assuming* that Islam is ‘benign’ … but truly, it isn’t. Jihad Watch is trying to show the world that ISIS is in fact an authentic re-enactment of foundational Islam which was “jihadist” to the core. However, many Muslims (likely the majority) still believe in a fantasy version of a ‘benign’ Islam and are refusing to admit the grim truth about jihadism … namely, that political jihadism is the central doctrine of Islam.

      • observer says

        Dec 22, 2019 at 3:28 pm

        Hello Mortimer

        Thank you for your input and for putting the brakes on…

        May I clarify… ?

        When I said,
        “They’re ALL the same… the devils behind this ongoing maniacal mind-controlling ideology !!!
        They lust after world domination at any cost !” I was speaking metaphysically …. I referred to spiritual powers and entities as the Bible states.

        I was not referring to ALL muslims who walk the earth, but to the powers BEHIND the ideology in the first place, which I happen to believe also spawned the prophet M and which drives the 15% (or whatever percentage) to the horrific violence, mayhem, murder & unspeakable loss for those left behind, and which keeps the majority of Muslims (i.e. the 85%?) from grasping the true nature of the ideology to which they are beholden.

        I concede that I might be wrong about Baroness Warsi who might well be ignorant of the ideology that drives the few to commit horror and mayhem, and who genuinely is unable see what is done in the name of her god and I should not berate her as I did.
        My apologies then to Baroness Warsi if she is truly unseeing, or she is without understanding of her Islamic scriptures.

        I know one should try to +assist+ the blind and not hit them over the head with a sledgehammer…

        (I see the Pope as blind as well i.r.o. the matters that Robert and his Team deal with, which is very hard from me to cope with. It frustrates me to see him expounding on ‘the religion of peace’ – as so many on this website refer to it – when he appears to know naught of its teachings; at times I get to want to bang him on the head too in my frustration o.b.o. those who die merciless deaths at the hands of the however-many.

        I try to watch very closely what Robert Spencer focusses on and I hope I have grasped the concept of the ideology that drives the few to commit global horror that causes such suffering to so many.

        Sometimes, I confess, it is hard for me to contain the pain I feel in the face of so much suffering around the world – and especially on the African continent… And my anger (which is driven by the pain I feel) can take the upper hand.
        Mea culpa.

        I will try to step back.
        You have given me cause to pause.
        I hope that from your side you see more clearly what I was actually saying in my post ?

        Thank you for yr input Mortimer…

      • PRCS says

        Dec 22, 2019 at 3:30 pm

        Jihadism?

        Capitalism, Nazism, Socialism and Communism are ‘isms’.

        Jihad, a core component of Islam, is NOT an ism.

      • gravenimage says

        Dec 22, 2019 at 8:55 pm

        Mortimer, there is no form of orthodox Islam that does not preach Jihad. The “Prophet” Muhammed himself was a Jihadist, and this is considered the highest and most praiseworthy action of Muslims.

        Jihad is not some sort of fringe element of Islam. It is its very core. I know that with your encyclopedic knowledge of Islam that you are well aware of this.

      • Save Europe says

        Dec 23, 2019 at 1:55 am

        15% or so are supporters of terrorism and less than 1% of Muslims are jihadists.

        *****

        That’s 15 percent of 25 percent of the world’s population then….because Muslims are 25 percent of the population.

        Worryingly high.

        • Rufolino says

          Dec 23, 2019 at 3:38 am

          If 15% are “supporters of terrorism”, why aren’t they included with those who are “supporters of jihad” ? How many actually believe that “jihad” is always peaceful ?

      • Ferd III says

        Dec 23, 2019 at 3:33 am

        Nonsense

        50% of Moslems in Western States (or more) want Sharia Barbarism

        It matters not if the average Nazi, Communist or Moslem is ‘nice’.

        The cults certainly are pathological death cults, desirous of global dominance. The individual matters not.

        White-washing Muhammadism by trying to highlight that ‘most moslems are peaceful’ is stupid.

        I don’t see Moslem introspection, responsibility, accountability or knowledge about their own death cult.

        1400 years, 250 million dead and 40.000 attacks since 9-11.

        Dispense with your absurdity that Muhammadism is not a threat.

        Along with Green Fascism it is the PRIME threat civilisation faces.

        • gravenimage says

          Dec 23, 2019 at 11:44 pm

          Yes–over half of Muslims in the US openly admit they want to see Shari’ah imposed here.

  2. Michael Copeland says

    Dec 22, 2019 at 8:40 am

    Warsi smears legitimate criticism as “hatred”. That is an old device, one that has well lost its freshness and is becoming threadbare.

    If Warsi opposes hatred let her denounce the “between us and you enmity and hatred forever” which Islam commands for muslims (Koran 60:4). That is no smear.

    • observer says

      Dec 22, 2019 at 8:46 am

      Hear ! Hear ! Michael Copeland.

  3. observer says

    Dec 22, 2019 at 8:43 am

    Naturally, I shall be branded a conspiracy theorist.
    And condemned by leftist trolls.

    It’s a given.

  4. mortimer says

    Dec 22, 2019 at 11:23 am

    To condemn the automatic use of the ‘race card’ in arguments about POLITICAL IDEOLOGY is a logical step in the direction of fact-based discussion of ideologies.

    Without actually saying so, Professor Swaran Singh has underlined that a political ideology has nothing to do with race. Anyone can see that there are people of all races in most political parties.

    Prof. Singh, a Conservative of Indian heritage, is a perfect example of his own claim that the race card is not a relevant argument in a conflict between ideologies.

  5. Crusades Were Right says

    Dec 22, 2019 at 11:25 am

    “Baroness Sayeeda Warsi”

    Presumably the fact she has only been made a baroness is another example of “Islamophobia”. I mean, one can be a QUEEN in the UK! lol

  6. Fred Middleton says

    Dec 22, 2019 at 11:29 am

    The Chancellor of the Exchequer, second most important post in the government, is a Muslim – though not a practising one – the Home Secretary is an Asian woman. The critics of the Tories are just thrashing around for something to damage them. The Labour party is controlled locally by Pakistanis and Bangladeshis. As for the Liberals, I can’t remember the last brown-skinned one I saw.

    • Infidel says

      Dec 22, 2019 at 4:06 pm

      The Home Secretary is an Ugandan Hindu, whose parents or grandparents fled Idi Amin’s Uganda. Care to look at a map before calling her ‘Asian’? If one goes by where her parents were from, it’s Uganda, if one goes by where she’s born and brought up, it’s Britain. And it’s not like she was forced to marry another Hindu: her husband is an Englishman and I doubt that either hubby or son is a Hindu like she is. (In fact, now the trend, even in India, is for inter-religious couples to retain their pre-marital religion, as opposed to the bride converting, and sometimes, they even have multiple wedding ceremonies in both religious traditions)

  7. Robert McCormack says

    Dec 22, 2019 at 3:51 pm

    Yes mortimer- you tell me what 15 per cent of total world population of muslims is.
    It’s a lot of terrorists

  8. Infidel says

    Dec 22, 2019 at 3:56 pm

    So the Tory party is essentially the venue of a Hindu-Muslim riot? Since any White who has concerns about Muslims must be a Tommy Robinson styled raaaaayseeeeest, the job of confronting Muslims have been outsourced to local Sikhs and Hindus? Brilliant!

    Given how the Church of England has been grovelling before Muslims, much like the Papacy or the Russian Orthodox church, maybe their adherents who oppose their stance on Muslims should turn to Buddhism or Sikhism or Hinduism. And if they’re confronted about their islamophobia, claim that theyre drawing inspiration from the VHP, as opposed to ‘Britain First’ or BNP or any other raaaaayseeeeest group

  9. gravenimage says

    Dec 22, 2019 at 8:58 pm

    UK: Head of Tory “Islamophobia” inquiry under fire for criticizing use of the race card
    …………………………….

    Does it matter that Professor Swaran Singh is himself a person of color?

    He is quite right about Islam. I hope he doesn’t back down.

  10. b.a. freeman says

    Dec 22, 2019 at 9:47 pm

    Ladies and Gentlemen … I will let you make your own mind up.”
    —
    … and if U make the wrong decision, i’ll have the police round to discuss your improper thoughts.

    what a nazi!

  11. JamesC says

    Dec 22, 2019 at 11:09 pm

    “ 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”

    It is.

    “and just 22 per cent thought it was ‘generally compatible’….”

    Parts of it are, but a lot of it is not.

  12. sidney penny says

    Dec 23, 2019 at 6:32 am

    “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”.”

    If he means the state ,than Muslims in Kashmir have never been the victims.Only Hindus and Sikhs.

    Plus one third of Kashmir is occupied by Pakistan.

    Indian Kashmir Muslims could always go to Pakistan occupied Kashmir.

  13. Linda Rivera says

    Dec 23, 2019 at 5:00 pm

    Muslim Extreme Hate for whites, Jews, Christians, Hindus, Sikhs, Yazidis, Buddhists, and all other non Muslims is completely ignored.

    It appears that the lives of non Muslims are regarded as worthless by NWO Globalist ruling elites.

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