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Saturday, 2 March 2019

The Tories’ response to raging Islamophobia? Turn a blind eye | Miqdaad Versi

A litany of unpunished bigotry by MPs should perhaps be no surprise from a party which seems to attract anti-Muslim racists

On Thursday’s BBC Politics Live show, the Conservative MP Henry Smith dismissed claims of Islamophobia in the Conservative party, citing the fact he personally had not seen any anti-Muslim discrimination.

Yet we have a fair idea as to just how Islamophobia has taken hold among the party’s support base and how its leadership is responding to such attitudes.

Related: It isn’t just young people who have turned to Labour. Muslims have too | Miqdaad Versi

Related: Why it’s OK for young Muslims to be radical | Ali Ahmad

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