Mick Hartley

If, as we’ve heard, Labour’s proposed new “anti-Muslim hostility tsar” aims to crack down on Islamist extremists, wouldn’t it make more sense to appoint a tsar directly charged with tackling Islamist extremism, rather than this Islamophobia-by-another-name nonsense? Rakib Ehsan at UnHerd:

Considering that the new cohesion strategy is clear on Islamism being the UK’s most serious extremist threat, the overall strategy may have benefited from a new anti-Islamist tsar. This could be someone who has a proven track record of challenging unquestionable forms of anti-Muslim hatred and tackling extremism in British Muslim communities. Instead, by specifically creating an anti-Muslim hostility tsar at a time where Islamist extremism represents the most significant domestic and global terror threat, Labour — quite ironically — risks reinforcing public perceptions that Muslims are the beneficiaries of preferential treatment.

Indeed. It comes across as a cynical effort to counter the Greens’ Islamist pandering