Labour’s mooted plan to adopt an agreed definition of Islamophobia amounts to a “blasphemy law through the back door”, warns a leading political commentator. It comes after reports suggested Sir Keir Starmer and Angela Raynor, his deputy, are weighing up a “range of views” about whether to introduce an agreed description of anti-Muslim hatred in the wake of the UK riots. Rioters attacked a mosque and stirred up anti-Muslim sentiments across the country following the tragic killing of three young girls in Southport on July 29. Much of the media depicted the riots as an expression of Islamophobi…
