Labour’s Jess Phillips says opposition activists ‘abused her because they were idiots, not because they were Muslims’

I’m sure there’ll be a lot of ‘well she *has* to say that because she’s being intimidated/is afraid of being called racist’ and ‘well actually Muslims *are* institutionally sexist, it says so in their book!’, like the Bible doesn’t also have multiple passages talking about how women need to be silent.

The fact is that Jess Phillips is right to say this. The people who abused her were individuals and should be held individually responsible. They aren’t mascots for their faith any more than certain sections of Christians are. That is to say, there are problems with bigotry in almost all of the world’s organised religions. But there’s also good in them too.

Hmmm it’s almost like there’s a pattern beginning to form 🤔