British campaign to criminalise Islamophobia condemned as dangerous

criminalise Islamophobia condemned as dangerous

A leading British think tank has warned of the dangers of adopting new laws that would criminalise an offence of Islamophobia as racism.

A Policy Exchange report on Thursday said the move would give a platform to special interest groups that could exploit the existence of a race-based crime to pursue their own agenda.

The position paper was drawn up after a group of British MPs gave their backing to calls for an official definition of Islamophobia that would threat any instances as racist in nature.

Britain has extensive hate crime laws that outlaw attacks such as Islamophobia or anti-Semitism without making additional links to racism.

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