Shibboleths

Another attempt to pass lamentable anti-free speech laws in the UK, but note this sloppy slide:

‘Current race hate laws do cover some religions, such as Jews and Sikhs, but not others.

Some Muslim groups have been pushing for that anomaly to be redressed.’

This is, of course, not true. Current race laws deal with Jews and Sikhs as races, not with Judaism and Sikhism as religions. Similarly, they cover Arabs or Persians, but not Muslims – for the very good reason that ‘Muslim’ is not a race.

Never fear, though, because the UK is just chock-full of ‘Islamophobia’ – whatever that is.