Tackling Islamophobia

I am grateful to the all-party parliamentary group for British Muslims for reminding me before th...

Order. I am not going to put a time limit on speeches, but, looking at the clock and given that 1...

It is a real pleasure to speak in this debate. I refer the House to my entry in the Register of M...

The hon. Member is making an interesting point. Does he accept that the yardstick applied to thin...

Qari Asim worked with the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Chief Rabbi and all faith leaders, and he...

The hon. Member is making an excellent speech on this important subject. He spoke about Qari Asim...

I have been a Member of Parliament for 13 years, and I resigned from Government when Asia Bibi, a...

Yes.

I thank my hon. Friend for clarifying that point. We have people like Mo Ali in cricket; across t...

Order. Let me try again. If every colleague takes 15 minutes, the following debate will have to b...

As I have raised in this House multiple times, I have received Islamophobic abuse since being ele...

I welcome the debate on behalf of the 3 million Muslims in the United Kingdom and the significant...

I am grateful to the hon. Member for giving way and associate myself with his comments about ensu...

Perhaps we should have a kahwa instead of a coffee. The hon. Member hits on a really good point, ...

I thank the Backbench Business Committee for proposing today’s important debate, and all my fello...

I am delighted to follow the hon. Member for Luton North (Sarah Owen). I put on record my thanks ...

I thank the hon. Member for sharing with us all the statistics from Scotland. May I say how delig...

The hon. Member is absolutely right. It is time that not just all the Scottish parties but that a...

I want briefly to raise a few points about my constituency. I have a multicultural constituency. ...

Islamophobia is an insidious kind of racism that is prevalent not just in British society but glo...

I am pleased to be able to speak in today’s debate, which was so brilliantly opened by my good an...

I express my gratitude to the Backbench Business Committee for providing this platform for a deba...

In a debate on Islamophobia in Parliament two years ago, I spoke up about my experience as a left...

I call the SNP spokesperson.

3 pm

May I start by thanking the hon. Member for Bradford West (Naz Shah) for the way in which she led...

I call the Opposition spokesperson.

3.9 pm

I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Bradford West (Naz Shah) and the hon. Member for Peterborou...

Does the hon. Lady agree that one of the most telling points made during the debate was the hon. ...

Yes, my hon. Friend the Member for Coventry South (Zarah Sultana) made a very important point. We...

The hon. Lady will have seen that I have challenged my Government’s actions. If she were a Minist...

The hon. Gentleman makes an important point. We first need to get the basics right by adopting th...

I appreciate the hon. Lady giving way, but is she planning to react to criticisms from Labour Mem...

I thank the hon. Member for that comment, and I did indeed hear those comments. What I would say ...

I am grateful to the Backbench Business Committee, the hon. Member for Bradford West (Naz Shah) a...

I genuinely welcome the Minister’s response and the passion with which she is laying out her thou...

I am very much of the view that 10 Downing Street is in a position to decide whom to invite. I do...

On the anti-Muslim hatred and Islamophobia that the Minister describes, could she define what tha...

I will go on to talk about definitions, but I will continue briefly on Tell MAMA, if I may.