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UK ruling party dealing with loads of Islamophobic complaints

British Conservatives are dealing with record number of Islamophobic complaints.

Britain’s ruling Conservative Party is investigating a record number of cases related to anti-Islam activity within its ranks as campaigners insist the party is beset by an “institutional” problem of Islamophobia.

The ITV News reported on a leaked dossier on Friday which showed that the Tory party had received at least 110 complaints against its members involving Islamophobia and other forms of racism.

Among the cases are comments made by Conservative Party members claiming that Islam a “cult” which is being allowed to “take over” Britain. Others have called Muslims in the UK as “infestation” who can cause “mayhem wherever they decide to invade”.

“Their plan is to turn this country into an Islamic state,” said one of the quotes in the cases, according to the report which also said that the Tory party authorities had not reported on 19 of the 110 cases in previous statements.

The new revelations come against the backdrop of increasing reports suggesting that senior Conservative Party politicians, including those with current or previous jobs in the government, have tried to target the Muslims in Britain in a bid to attract the support of the far-right and anti-immigrant voters.

The trend surged last summer when former foreign minister Boris Johnson, who has a high chance of becoming the next UK prime minister, helped hate attacks against Muslim women with burqas increase in the country after he likened them to “bank-robbers” and “letterboxes”.

Top officials in the Conservative Party have denied accusations the party is Islamophobic.

That comes as the main opposition Labour Party has been the target of a massive media campaign over the past two years for the alleged anti-Semitic comments made by its leadership.


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