The UK’s Green Party, which has just blotted its copybook by adopting a resolution declaring that “Zionism is racism,” is now determined to stamp out the slightest criticism of Islam, Muslims, Muhammad, and the Quran, all of which the Muslim wing of the Greens now declares to be “Islamophobic.” Robert Spencer wrote about this briefly here, and more on this attempt to quash any truthful discussion of Islam can be found here: “UK Greens’ Muslim Wing Issues Guidance Making Everything ‘Islamophobic,’” by Joakim Scheffer, Hungarian Conservative, October 16, 2026:
Criticizing Quranic teachings on women, raising alarms about Islamist influence or using phrases such as ‘illegal migrants’ could invite Islamophobia complaints against British Green Party members in the future under a ridiculously wide-ranging guide published by the party’s Muslim wing. The document stretches the concept of religious prejudice into virtually every corner of political debate, from border controls and LGBTQ rights to candidate selection and even the choice of venue for a party social event.
The document has been proposed for inclusion in the Green Party of England and Wales’ ethics framework, and its central premise is essentially that ‘Islamophobia’ encompasses not merely discrimination against Muslims but also ‘biases against the religion of Islam itself’. By contrast, even the Labour government’s already highly controversial March 2026 definition of Islamophobia expressly protects criticism and ridicule of Islam.
Among the guide’s examples of Islamophobia is the suggestion that Quranic teachings are ‘backward and reductive to women’. Elsewhere, however, it solemnly declares that criticism of religious doctrine and misogyny remains permissible. How members are supposed to reconcile those instructions is left unexplained. Apparently, one may challenge oppression, but not the religious texts invoked to justify it.
The same selective approach to religious criticism appears in the document’s treatment of homosexuality. Under the heading ‘homonationalism’, the guidance attacks the supposed exploitation of LGBTQ rights to portray Islam as hostile to homosexuality and attributes the ‘vast majority’ of anti-gay legislation across former colonies in Asia, Africa and the Middle East to British imperialism.
While Britain did export such laws, the guide conveniently overlooks the independent role of Islamic law in criminalizing homosexuality. Nigeria retains colonial-era prohibitions alongside Sharia-based penalties in its northern states, while Iran, which was never colonized by Britain, punishes certain same-sex acts with death under its Islamic Penal Code.
The immigration provisions identify ‘illegal migrants’, ‘foreign criminals’, ‘failed integration’, ‘parallel communities’, ‘no-go areas’ and ‘Sharia law’ as potentially Islamophobic coded language, making it practically impossible to debate immigration within the party.
Green representatives would be prohibited from describing migration as an ‘invasion’, ‘swarm’ or ‘flood’, while immigration proposals would undergo so-called anti-Islamophobia assessments before publication. Even discussing a criminal suspect’s immigration background would face restrictions. Debate on border policy would likewise be subjected to ideological vetting.
Within the party itself, excluding candidates out of fear that ‘extremists/terrorist sympathisers’ could take over party structures is identified as an example of Islamophobia, without clearly distinguishing religious stereotyping from credible concerns about political entryism. The guidance also says Muslims must not be required to condemn grooming gangs, terrorism, misogyny or antisemitism….
No, even to ask Muslims to condemn grooming gangs, terrorism, misogyny, or antisemitism is to suggest that Muslims do have a special connection to these phenomena, and that would be unfair. Why single out Muslims to condemn grooming gangs, for example, when, of course, Muslims are no more likely to be guilty of such practices than anyone else? And if you dare to suggest otherwise, you are guilty of “Islamophobia.” Similarly, why should Muslims be required to condemn terrorism, when everyone knows that the real terrorists are the colonial-settler apartheid genocidal Jews of Israel? And there is no evidence, of course, that Muslims are antisemitic — Arabs are Semites, too, after all — so why single them out to condemn that not inaccurate view of the Jews?
Organizing all social events around alcohol in a way that excludes observant Muslims, or gathering vaguely defined electoral data that ‘undervalues’ Muslim communities, also makes the list. Candidates would face mandatory digital anti-Islamophobia training, and even messages shared in private WhatsApp groups would come under scrutiny. The Muslim Greens also recommend training and local events for November’s Islamophobia Awareness Month.
Hmm. This sounds like the kind of program the Communist Chinese might approve of: mandatory training — that is, mind control — intended to squeeze out of pupils’ brains any last drop of antipathy to wonderful Islam that they might display.
According to the Muslim Greens, it is “Islamophobic” even to mention immigration, unless it be to praise it. Criticism of Islamic antisemitism, and daring to link it to passages in the Qur’an and hadith, should be strictly forbidden as “Islamophobic.” Mention of Muhammad’s consummating his marriage to little Aisha when she was nine years old and he was 54 — “Islamophobic.” Mention of the murders, at Muhammad’s instigation, of Asma bint Marwan, Abu ‘Afak, and Ka’b bin al-Ashraf, of course would put Muhammad in a bad light, and so must be condemned as “Islamophobic.” Mentioning Muhammad’s boast in the hadith that “I have been made victorious through terrorism,” or his claim that “war is deception,” are really damaging examples of “Islamophobia” that must be condemned.
If the Green Party as a whole were to adopt this campaign to shut down any and all criticism of Islam and of Muslims, the Greens will become the Party of Islam. Muslims now constitute 6.5% of the population in the U.K. And that is about where the Green Party will then end up, with just slightly above 6.5% of the vote and, I allow myself to believe, no more.
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