Not worried enough yet by the government’s new definition of ‘anti-Muslim hostility’? Here’s another red flag: the mild, nuanced, or downright supportive responses it’s received from some of the worst people in Britain.

In the week or so since the definition was published, I’ve been tracking reactions across British Islam’s vast cosmos of professional offence-takers and grievance-mongers – sorry, diverse’n’vibrant civil society groups.

Take Muslim Engagement and Development (Mend), the organisation which has, in the past, suggested that Britain ‘treats all Muslims as criminal.’ They promote the claim that Muslims make up nine-tenths of counter-terror stops at airports (the true figure is less than a third) and the organisation’s head of policy said that Britain and Europe are so Islamophobic that we ‘may already be close’ to the conditions that allowed the Holocaust.

The government has already said that the definition ‘may need to evolve over time’

The government has already said that the definition ‘may need to evolve over time’

Mend........

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