Homophobic tory minister criticises islamophobia
jigsaw | 20.01.2011 11:31 | Anti-racism | Migration | Social Struggles
Baroness Warsi has criticised the social acceptability of Islamophobic prejudice. Perhaps in her new campaign against bigotry she should look towards her own faults, having campaigned for parliament in 2005 on a platform of opposition to equal ages of consent for homosexual and heterosexual sex, and support for the homophobic Section 28 from the days when the tories were honest and open about their bigotry.
In a leaflet published during Warsi's 2005 election campaign for the Conservative Party, she wrote that "Labour has scrapped section 28 which was introduced by the Conservatives to stop schools promoting alternative sexual lifestyles such as homosexuality to children as young as seven years old... now schools are allowed and do promote homosexuality and other alternative sexual lifestyles to your children. Labour reduced the age of consent for homosexuality from 18 to 16 allowing school children to be propositioned for homosexual relationships ... I will campaign strongly for an end to sex education at seven years and the promotion of homosexuality that undermines family life."
Challenged over these shockingly homophobic comments, Warsi said "it's a statement I make as I believe it. It is factually correct. Everything in this leaflet is fact". Later having been whipped into shape by the Tory leadership anxious to reinvent itself as 'Tory-lite', she begrudgingly said "I look back at lots of my election leaflets and think, 'God - why did I phrase it like that?'".
Warsi's latest words about the issue of Islamophobia will come as a source of amusement and anguish to the Muslim communities around the country who have largely disowned her, with large groups in recent years pelting her with eggs and warning her not to attempt to visit their communities. Their sense of betrayal is rooted in a host of shocking stances and campaigns by the minister. She supports the murderous operations of the British armed forces in Islamic countries. In her infamous 2005 election campaign, she targetted Muslim communities with homophobic leaflets, and then shamelessly targetted white communities with anti-immigration propaganda.
Challenged over these shockingly homophobic comments, Warsi said "it's a statement I make as I believe it. It is factually correct. Everything in this leaflet is fact". Later having been whipped into shape by the Tory leadership anxious to reinvent itself as 'Tory-lite', she begrudgingly said "I look back at lots of my election leaflets and think, 'God - why did I phrase it like that?'".
Warsi's latest words about the issue of Islamophobia will come as a source of amusement and anguish to the Muslim communities around the country who have largely disowned her, with large groups in recent years pelting her with eggs and warning her not to attempt to visit their communities. Their sense of betrayal is rooted in a host of shocking stances and campaigns by the minister. She supports the murderous operations of the British armed forces in Islamic countries. In her infamous 2005 election campaign, she targetted Muslim communities with homophobic leaflets, and then shamelessly targetted white communities with anti-immigration propaganda.
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