On @BBCr4today at 8:30am, I discussed Trevor Phillips' ongoing unfounded claims about Muslims that not only align with far-right Islamophobes but are used by far-right Islamophobes to justify their divisive hatefulness and targeting of Muslims. /Thread

If juts one poll would come back to show the Muslim population in this country on the whole were integrating it would quickly cease to be an issue.

But time and time and time again in poll after poll after poll we see huge sections of the Muslim community, not all, but a significant proportion, show absolutely no signs of bending to the social culture that exists here.

Not remotely help by guys like this in the Muslim Council who want to outlaw any criticism of "Muslimness" which would effectively place an absolute moratorium on any critical comment which could be in any way associated with the religion. Its not exactly great optics that you want to shit down any and all negative comments about your religion.

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