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Muslim Council urge for a Tory party Islamophobia investigation after fresh evidence
The UK's human rights watchdog is under increasing pressure to investigate Islamophobia in the Conservative Party after being handed a fresh dossier detailing allegations against more than 300 people
THE Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) called on Britain’s human-rights watchdog to investigate “systemic and widespread” Tory Islamophobia today as it submitted a thick dossier of complaints against party members.
The council’s document details allegations against 300 members of the party to the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) — double the number of incidents detailed in an initial report handed to the commission in May last year.
Despite a “wealth of evidence” of an “islamophobia crisis” in the party, MCB secretary general Harun Khan claimed the watchdog failed to respond to its calls to launch a probe.
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