Labour moves to draw up an official definition of Islamophobia would shut down efforts to combat grooming gangs, a new report warns.
The Policy Exchange think-tank said the work of the Government’s ‘Anti-Muslim Hate/Islamophobia Definition Working Group’, set up earlier this year, should be immediately suspended.
Devising a government-backed definition of Islamophobia – even though it would not initially have any force in law – would ‘almost certainly turbocharge cancel culture’, it said.
Policy Exchange’s warning came days after a long-awaited review by Whitehall troubleshooter Baroness Casey found public bodies covered up sickening evidence about Asian grooming gangs ‘for fear of appearing racist’.
Councils, police forces and the Home Office repeatedly ‘shied away’ from dealing with ‘uncomfortable’ questions about the ethnicity of rapists preying on thousands of vulnerable girls.
