preferential treatment’  But who are they kidding? Singling out one religious group for unique protections is a clear sign it’s being treated preferentially compared with other faiths.

One of the government’s most spurious arguments is that the new definition will also protect ‘those who have left Islam’, who might also suffer ‘anti-Muslim hostility’ because they ‘look uslim’. This is a perplexing claim. Apostates do indeed suffer from hostility – but largely from other, more zealous muslims, rather than from wider society. In some islamic societies, they are killed because they have dared to leave the faith. Even in the UK, apostates are persecuted by islamic hardliners, as shown by the harrowing cases of Nissar Hussain and Hatun Tash.

Both Hussain and Tash are ex-Muslims who have converted to Christianity. Hussain has endured years of persecution, much of it violent, which forced him to flee his native Bradford. Tash was stabbed and was even the target of a foiled murder plot, yet the police repeatedly arrested her at the behest of her tormentors. Perhaps the government would be better focussing its energies on tackling islamic hardliners’ violent hostility to ex-Muslims.

The government’s willingness to give muslims special protections strikes a particularly raw nerve among other ethnic and religious groups who face persecution in Britain. Earlier this month, approximately 20 Muslims attacked a large Hindu celebration in Harrow, north London. And this was not a one-off event. If the government actually believed what it has been saying about wanting to treat all minority groups equally, Hindus would be well within their rights to lobby for a new definition of ‘anti-Hindu hostility’.

Then there is the threat this new definition poses to freedom of speech. Part of the problem here is the vagueness of the word ‘hostility’. Given there is no legal definition of ‘hostility’, we may well have to use the dictionary meaning, which defines it as ‘ill-will, spite, contempt, prejudice, unfriendliness, antagonism, resentment and dislike’. In other words, ‘hostility’ can be interpreted to mean just about any disagreement with Islam, its practices and even its more extreme expressions.

UK Resist Comment - There is no doubt that the Labour government privileges muslims.  This is a clear case of discrimination.  What about the Jewish community, what about the Hindu community?  There is a real danger that the government is creating a 2-tier society with muslims given preference.  The irony is that there so-called religion is nothing other than a death cult.

Be prepared to defend the British way of life against the government and the evil of islam.