{"id":31022,"date":"2017-11-15T12:29:11","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T07:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=31022"},"modified":"2017-11-15T12:29:11","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T07:29:11","slug":"hate-speech-against-muslims-rampant-in-uk-press-says-british-pakistani-politician-sayeeda-warsi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=31022","title":{"rendered":"Hate speech against Muslims rampant in UK press, says British-Pakistani politician Sayeeda Warsi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LONDON Nov 15 (TNS):<\/strong> A former British-Pakistani minister has said that hate speech and Islamophobia have become a \u201cplague\u201d in British newspapers and asked for a parliamentary investigation into the issue, the\u00a0Guardian\u00a0reported.<\/p>\n<p>Muslims were the principal target of this campaign, she said in an address at an event.<\/p>\n<p>The former lawyer and Tory minister said: \u201cIn sections of our press, it is relentless and deliberate. Steadily and methodically using paper inches and columns to create, feed and ratchet up suspicions and hostilities in our society, driving communities apart and creating untold \u2013 and unnecessary \u2013 fear and distress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPoisoning our public discourse, making it almost impossible to have sensible discussions about real challenges, crowding out tolerance, reason and understanding.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd this drip-drip approach has created a toxic environment where hate crime is the highest it has been since records began.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is true not just of two or three notorious dailies, but also of papers some still regard as responsible and ethical. Anti-Muslim hate speech is becoming a regular feature even in the more \u2018respectable\u2019 parts of the press and that\u2019s why it is becoming more dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIslamophobia is Britain latest bigotry blind spot. It\u2019s where the respectable rationalise bigotry, couch it in intellectual argument and present it as public interest or honest opinion that allows the rot of xenophobia to set in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Warsi also slammed newspapers running bigoted and sensational headlines against Muslims, saying she was shocked by the headline \u201c1 in 5 Brit Muslims\u2019 sympathy for jihadis\u201d in the Sun in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>These newspapers \u201cwilfully sending a message to its readers that Muslims are frightening people with whom Christian children are not safe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt pandered to bigoted stereotypes, was extraordinarily irresponsible and most shockingly was untrue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Warsi had resigned in protest over the UK government\u2019s policy on Gaza in 2014. She had been appointed to a foreign office post in 2012 and was also the minister for faith and communities.<\/p>\n<p>She had previously been the chairperson of the Conservative Party and was appointed as the first female Muslim cabinet member in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON Nov 15 (TNS): A former British-Pakistani minister has said that hate speech and Islamophobia have become a \u201cplague\u201d in British newspapers and asked for a parliamentary investigation into the issue, the\u00a0Guardian\u00a0reported. Muslims were the principal target of this campaign, she said in an address at an event. The former lawyer and Tory minister said: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,491],"tags":[247,733],"class_list":["post-31022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-london","tag-london","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31024,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31022\/revisions\/31024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}