{"id":548,"date":"2020-06-08T16:09:38","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T16:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/standingtogethershu\/?p=548"},"modified":"2020-06-08T16:09:38","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T16:09:38","slug":"equalities-watchdog-drops-plan-for-tory-islamophobia-inquiry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/standingtogethershu\/2020\/06\/08\/equalities-watchdog-drops-plan-for-tory-islamophobia-inquiry\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Equalities watchdog drops plan for Tory Islamophobia inquiry&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian has reported that\u00a0 &#8220;The equalities watchdog has dropped plans to launch an inquiry into Tory Islamophobia after the party set out new details of its own investigation, which the largest Muslim body in Britain has branded \u201ca facade\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) have said it does not think it is proportionate to carry out its own inquiry after the Conservatives committed to an independent investigation looking into complaints of discrimination over \u201creligion or belief and significantly Islam\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-h6rhrn\">However, the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), which submitted a dossier of 300 cases to the watchdog cataloguing alleged Islamophobia, said the terms of reference set out by the Tories was inadequate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2020\/may\/12\/equalities-watchdog-drops-plan-for-tory-islamophobia-inquiry?fbclid=IwAR3BAsNJRNKKwRMd6z4aHqG7vXaI0D7gghhmZaZ51qKeKoiD4KDgLXjhUgM\">read the full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian has reported that\u00a0 &#8220;The equalities watchdog has dropped plans to launch an inquiry into Tory Islamophobia after the party set out new details of its own investigation, which the largest Muslim body in Britain has branded \u201ca facade\u201d. The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) have said it does not think it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11951,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religious-hate-crime","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paruxn-8Q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/standingtogethershu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/standingtogethershu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/standingtogethershu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/standingtogethershu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/standingtogethershu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":549,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/standingtogethershu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions\/549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/standingtogethershu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/standingtogethershu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/standingtogethershu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}