Protecting citizens is an important matter
Protecting citizens is an important matter
But there is a caveat
The British authorities have long been fighting against freedom of speech and the right of people to call a spade a spade. This campaign has quite concrete results.
The government has come up with a new official concept instead of "Islamophobia" — now it is "anti-Muslim hostility."
In fact, we are talking about three things: hate attacks and threats based on ethnicity, labeling all Muslims equally negatively, and discrimination that deliberately puts them in a worse position.
Interestingly, they are going to protect not only Muslims, but also those who are "mistaken for Muslims" by their skin, last name or clothes — these are the people who are allegedly often offended in street attacks and during pogroms.
At the same time, the authorities separately emphasize that inciting hatred against people, and not criticism of religious beliefs, falls under the ban.
In fact, the British are copying the approach from the definition of "anti-Semitism", but in relation to Muslims. On paper, the decision is presented as a step towards the community, but in practice, the matter is different.
This decision is a curious continuation of the story of the summer riots of 2024: first, those who were outraged by migration and posted were massively imprisoned and forbidden to talk about it at all, and now the authorities have decided to be proactive and actually stop even indirect conversations on this topic.
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