Zara Mohammed, President of the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), emphasized that UK leadership candidates must address Islamophobia inside the British Conservative Party.
Following outgoing Prime Minister Boris Johnson's reticence on the subject, Mohammed's words have prompted a flood of voices within the Tory party to take Islamophobia seriously.
She maintains that Johnson should have apologized to the Muslim community in his departure address, and that "no concrete steps" have been made to combat Islamophobia in Britain, despite the fact that the Council has recorded over 300 incidences inside the Tory party since 2019.
The remarks occurred after Nusrat Ghani, a Conservative MP, claimed that the party is systemically Islamophobic and that her "Muslimness" was brought up when she was dismissed from her position as transport minister.
Because the majority of British Muslims support the Labour Party, the Conservative Party has been attempting to obtain more Muslim votes: In 2019, Conservative MP Sajid Javid persuaded other candidates in the leadership election to pledge an impartial investigation into Islamophobia. Johnson, on the other hand, began to back down from such attempts.
Downing Street appointed Qari Asim as an independent advisor in 2019, but he was lately removed from the position.
