Health minister Zubir Ahmed says new definition of anti-Muslim hostility could be a turning point as he tells of Islamophobic abuse
Zubir Ahmed, a health minister, tries not to read the comments under his social media feeds, but sometimes curiosity gets the better of him.
After performing a transplant on Christmas Day, the vascular surgeon scanned a post about the operation.
He recalled: “It went viral on the internet, but I have also never seen anything like the abuse. There was one comment that stuck out for me that just said: ‘Thanks for the transplant, now go home.’”
For the MP, who, as parliamentary undersecretary of state for health innovation and safety, is one of two Muslims in government, such comments reflect the Islamophobic abuse that he says has got worse in recent decades.
