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I support the Government's definition, and am delighted they have dropped the word "Islamophobia."
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Posted 19 March 2026. Transmitted 12 March 2026.
On 9 March 2026, the UK Government published its long-awaited definition of anti-Muslim hostility.
Three days later I took part in a panel discussion about it on "The World Today News" show "The Protagonists" presented by Mike Ryan.
After the programme details and the video, I have included the full definition and some additional information.
The protagonists were described as follows:
Robin Tilbrook is the Leader & Chairman of the English Democrats and Chairman of the Workers of England Union. He is an English Solicitor and runs his own law firm.
The English Democrats launched in 2002 and are the only campaigning English nationalist Party and campaigns for a referendum for Independence for England; for St George's Day to be England's National holiday; for Jerusalem to be England's National Anthem; to leave properly and fully the EU; for an end to mass immigration; for the Cross of St George to be flown on all public buildings in England; and his party supported a YES vote for Scottish Independence.
Mohammed Amin MBE is Director of The Campaign for Shared European Values. Mohammed was a Clare College Cambridge Alumnus of the Year (2014) and his website is www.mohammedamin.com. On several occasions he has been listed as one of the hundred most influential Muslims in the UK. @Mohammed_Amin
Radha Stirling is a leading UK based human rights advocate, crisis manager and policy consultant, focusing on the UAE and the wider Middle East. She is the founder and CEO of British based organisation Detained in Dubai (which have helped almost twenty thousand victims of injustice over the past 13+ years), Due Process International and IPEX (Interpol and Extradition) Reform. Radha also hosts the Gulf in Justice Podcast.
I have copied below the definition verbatim from the Government's website.
I have then highlighted in red some key words, because they are likely to be widely overlooked when the definition is discussed.
Anti-Muslim hostility is intentionally engaging in, assisting or encouraging criminal acts – including acts of violence, vandalism, harassment, or intimidation, whether physical, verbal, written or electronically communicated – that are directed at Muslims because of their religion or at those who are perceived to be Muslim, including where that perception is based on assumptions about ethnicity, race or appearance.
It is also the prejudicial stereotyping of Muslims, or people perceived to be Muslim including because of their ethnic or racial backgrounds or their appearance, and treating them as a collective group defined by fixed and negative characteristics, with the intention of encouraging hatred against them, irrespective of their actual opinions, beliefs or actions as individuals.
It is engaging in unlawful discrimination where the relevant conduct – including the creation or use of practices and biases within institutions – is intended to disadvantage Muslims in public and economic life.
I have several comments.
At 33:34 Robin Tilbrook talks about the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism. In my view he seriously misrepresents it when he states that negative comments about Israel would be treated as antisemitism.
I disagree with him at 37:14 and explain why he is wrong. I recommend reading my page "The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance Definition of Antisemitism."
