By GB News (Politics) | Created at 2025-01-09 07:39:01 | Updated at 2025-01-09 19:18:29
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The Labour Party’s definition of Islamophobia puts “grooming gangs” in inverted commas and forbids discussion on the scandal in relation to Muslims in fear of racism, Kemi Badenoch has claimed.
Labour adopted its definition in 2019 from a report by a group of MPs co-chaired by now-Health Secretary Wes Streeting. It includes a warning that “Asian grooming gangs” perpetuate “age-old stereotypes and tropes about Islam”.
The report from the all-party parliamentary group (APPG) said that discussing the scandal makes Muslims “vulnerable to hate crimes”.
During Wednesday’s Prime Minister’s Questions, Badenoch asked Sir Keir Starmer to cancel his party’s adoption of the APPG’s British Muslim report.
Badenoch told MPs Labour won't discuss grooming gangs out of fears of inciting racism
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The Leader of the Opposition also asked whether the Government must also follow the 2019 definition, which he declined to rule out.
She said the “definition and examples” set out in the report were “exactly why people are scared to tell the truth”.
The APPG has maintained that its definition does not prohibit people from discussing “sex groomers” and that there was “nothing Islamophobic about addressing ant crime”.
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