Institutional racism and the rise of anti-Muslim attitudes | Letters

Prof Yasmin Alibhai-Brown et al urge the mainstream political parties to acknowledge and confront all forms of racism, Liam O’Keefe says we must resist anti-Muslim behaviour so as to avoid the mistakes of the past and Gillian Dalley on nativist ideology

Baroness Warsi has repeatedly accused the Conservative party of institutional Islamophobia and called for an independent inquiry (Tory party suspends 14 members over allegedly Islamophobic remarks, 6 March).

Her concerns echo the evidence of a recent report by the anti-racist advocacy group Hope Not Hate. Surely the time is long overdue for the leadership to listen to her rather than insisting, as all political parties tend to do, that the main problem with racist abuse and discrimination always lies elsewhere.

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