Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, the shadow Community Cohesion Minister, made a speech at the Conservative Party Conference this week about religion and government. It was a bit of a curate’s egg.
.... She could have been quoting directly from NSS policy when she said: .... State multiculturalism is not integration, is not unifying and is not the British way.” We have been saying this for the past ten years. So far so good. But then the Baroness goes on to fall for the “religion is being persecuted” line.
.... she complains about Islamophobia, saying that religious extremists in the Muslim world are not representative, and ordinary Muslim citizens are getting a raw deal. [National Secular Society] Read more
Sayeeda Warsi criticises ’state multi-culturalism’, English Defence League Sayeeda Warsi gave a speech today at the Conservative Party conference. .... She said she had three key messages: 1. Labour’s reliance on multiculturalism has failed Britain 2. The state’s continued suspicion of faith is wrong 3. And the threat of terrorism is no excuse for demonising a whole community. .... She specifically focuses on ’state multiculturalism’ and makes a distinction by saying: [Pickled Politics] Read more
