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In a 2019 Policy Exchange report, Islamophobia – Crippling Counter-Terrorism, co-authors Richard Walton and Tom Wilson warn that the idea and definition of Islamophobia risks ‘diminishing freedom of speech and impairing our ability, as a society, to debate the causes of Islamist extremism’. They add that legal adoption of the definition would result in the police, the Crown Prosecution Service, the judiciary, and Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service, all being branded ‘institutionally Islamophobic’.
The promotion of ‘Islamophobia’ by assorted campaign groups, and the attempt to give it a legal footing could do serious damage to public life. Legitimising accusations of Islamophobia not only harms free speech for non-Muslims, but also for Muslims who want to raise questions about their faith, or who simply do not want to restrict debate.
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