After JD Vance’s attack, who will stand up for British Muslims? | US News

Donald Trump has now been made the official Republican candidate for this November’s presidential election in the US.

And already his newly-appointed working mate, JD Vance, has made headlines throughout Britain for latest feedback he directed on the new Labour authorities.

Throughout a speech at a rightwing convention final week, Vance mentioned had been questioning which ‘actually Islamist nation’ can be the primary to realize entry to nuclear weapons. 

Recounting a dialog he had with a buddy, he instructed the viewers: ‘Possibly it’s Iran, possibly Pakistan already form of counts, after which we lastly determined that it’s really the UK – since Labour simply took over.’

It’s troublesome to know the place to start with unpicking this weird and unfounded remark. 

First, the belief that Starmer is by some means presiding over an ‘Islamist authorities’ is frankly laughable, given how Muslims dramatically deserted Labour in some constituencies lower than two weeks in the past. 

Even for the reason that election, Starmer has satisfied many people that his concern for misplaced Muslim votes is virtually non-existent. 

In an interview with ITV’s Shehab Khan – when questioned on how his celebration would win again disillusioned British Muslims – Starmer repeatedly reiterated what a big mandate the nation had given him.

In different phrases, it doesn’t matter if us Muslim voters really feel ousted by the celebration we have now all the time supported when Labour received a landslide – regardless of how shallow it’s.

However beneath the sheer absurdity of Vance’s feedback is a really troubling Islamophobic present that mirrors a lot of what we’re seeing in Britain in the intervening time.

Because the nation went to the polls at first of the month – and significantly with the election of 5 impartial MPs who stood on a largely pro-Gaza ticket – conspiracy theories about Muslims have been rife.

Muslim voters have been accused of ‘intimidation’ for merely asking their representatives about their stance on voting for a ceasefire – or by accusing them of being complicit within the very invasion that their celebration helps by refusing to stop arms gross sales to Israel. 

Anti-Muslim hysteria is so excessive in Britain in the intervening time that this narrative goes nearly unchecked.

Any Muslim involvement in politics is, seemingly by default, proof of us working as a fifth column in opposition to the pursuits of the nation.

We’ve seen the identical replicated throughout the nation. 

Virtually as quickly because the election outcomes rolled in, sensationalist and downright Islamophobic headlines popped up in some publications accusing Muslim voters of dominating the election with their ‘sanitised Islamism’ or warning that politics has change into ‘horrifying’ and ‘horrifying’ because of the Muslim vote marketing campaign. 

Contemplating how Muslims are endlessly instructed to combine, take part and have interaction – why is it that once we do, it’s out of the blue nefarious and anti-British?

On the identical time, JD Vance’s feedback needs to be of concern to extra than simply British Muslims bored with the identical Islamophobic tropes.

The very fact is, we could be a Trump presidency in only a few months’ time, and thus far Labour have confirmed that they’ll cower within the face of a harmful world order dominated by Trump and his cronies.

New International Secretary David Lammy has beforehand known as JD Vance ‘a buddy’ and the very best rating Labour frontbenchers immediately appear unable to collect collectively the phrases to sentence Vance’s flagrant Islamophobia. 

Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner appeared to dismiss issues in regards to the feedback, merely saying she ‘doesn’t recognise’ this characterisation of Britain. Whereas Minister James Murray smirked when requested about Vance’s remarks and reiterated that ‘it’s for America to resolve who they elect’. 

Simply weeks into their premiership, this new Labour authorities has already confirmed itself impotent on overseas coverage, and never simply on this challenge.

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Regardless of beforehand claiming that Labour would adjust to the Worldwide Prison Courtroom’s arrest warrant for Netanyahu, on David Lammy’s first abroad journey as International Secretary, he has been photographed shaking palms emphatically with the very architects of the utter decimation taking place to Gaza as we converse. 

The identical already appears true on the prospect of a Trump presidency.

If this new Labour authorities can’t provide any robust rebuttal to the Islamophobia being spewed at Britain, directed on the very residents which have already been remoted from their celebration, then what hope can Labour provide within the face of no matter far-right, populist and harmful rhetoric one other Trump time period will seemingly whip up across the globe? 

Underneath Labour thus far, it appears like ‘the particular relationship’ between the UK and USA will appear like Britain nodding alongside to no matter bigotry and conspiracy is generated from throughout the pond.

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