British Conservative MP Nusrat Ghani says she was fired as a minister from the Boris Johnson government years ago because of her “Muslimness.” This is a timely accusation, given the mess the UK government is in. 

It’s also ironic that she would levy the specific accusation that her “Muslimness was raised as an issue.” The word “Muslimness” (whatever that means) was used in the peculiar definition of “Islamophobia” that the All-Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims, supported by the Muslim Council of Britain and other Muslim groups, came up with in 2018. 

This definition was understandably rejected by the party, and now returns to haunt it:

Islamophobia is rooted in racism and is a type of racism that targets expressions of Muslimness or perceived Muslimness.

What exactly does “Muslimness” mean ?

In Canada, the National Council of Canadian Muslims also helped define “Islamophobia” for the Toronto District School Board as “fear, prejudice, hatred or dislike directed against Islam or Muslims, or towards Islamic politics or culture.” The broad picture comes into focus.

So anyone who rejects the aspects of Islam that are incompatible with Western freedoms (beginning with speech that may be deemed offensive to Muslims), may be considered “Islamophobic,” or to be rejecting “Muslimness.”

The head of the Conservative Muslim Forum, Mohamed Sheikh, has now “called on Boris Johnson to explain whether Nusrat Ghani was sacked for her ‘Muslimness’ – after he ducked questions.”

Why does the Conservative party have a special Muslim Forum to begin with? Is there a Jewish Forum? Hindu? Christian? Buddhist? The Tories have been setting up their own problems, like many other so-called conservatives who are terrified of being judged as “Islamophobic.” To avoid this, they awarded special privileges to Muslim groups.