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Tory chief Baroness Warsi attacks ?bigotry? against Muslims

By Alliance Alert

Telegraph: "Islamophobia has 'passed the dinner-table test' and is seen by many as normal and uncontroversial, Baroness Warsi will say in a speech on Thursday. The minister without portfolio will also warn that describing Muslims as either 'moderate' or 'extremist' fosters growing prejudice. Lady Warsi, the first Muslim woman to attend Cabinet, has pledged to use her position to wage an 'ongoing battle against bigotry.'" Melanie Phillips comments: "But hang on -- there is a division between those British Muslims who are happy to live as British citizens under one law for all and thus subscribe totally to British and western values of democracy and who thus pose no threat to anyone at all, and those who want instead to live under sharia and as such are attempting to subvert Britain and the west in order to negate its democratic values and human rights and replace them by an Islamic theocracy. Yet Warsi is saying this distinction is in itself evidence of bigotry."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on January 20, 2011 (boomark / email).