Exposed: The dirty campaign to paint Muslim MPs as anti-British

 

A sinister effort is underway to paint independent Muslim MPs as sectarian and illegitimate. Middle East Eye analyses this new and bigoted discourse

From time to time in politics a word or phrase suddenly becomes fashionable. One famous example concerns the term “weapons of mass destruction”, which became ubiquitous in early 2003. 

This pseudo-scientific formulation sounded impressive. The media bought into it. It gave credibility to the false claims made by George W Bush and Tony Blair to justify the invasion of Iraq.

In the aftermath of the invasion the world learnt that there had been no weapons of mass destruction. Blair and Bush had deployed the term to give a spurious legitimacy to an illegal war.

There’s a lesson here.

We need to pay attention when a novel word or phrase enters the national conversation.

To ask who put it there, and why, and whether the term means what it claims.

In this article we examine one such term that has recently emerged in the British political lexicon: the word “sectarian”.

It is not a new word - but it has been directed towards a new target. It’s being used to stigmatise British Muslim politicians.  (more...)

Exposed: The dirty campaign to paint Muslim MPs as anti-British