Michael Rosen | A Life in Writing
Recorded: Sat 23 Nov 2024
Duration: 1 hr
Michael Rosen | A Life in Writing
Winter 2024
For too many, Muslims Don’t Matter.
Britain’s first Muslim Cabinet minister, campaigner, and podcaster Baroness Warsi joined us to discuss her important new book Muslims Don’t Matter. She recently resigned the Conservative whip, citing the party had moved too far to the right.
With Muslims, terrified by the riots, seriously considering whether Britain should still be their home, Baroness Warsi unapologetically challenges the corrosive consensus and urges us to change course, to unite and dismantle this toxic bigotry.
Three grandfathers killed on the streets of England in three separate incidents by three different men. Each targeted simply for being Muslim – each attack a consequence of the insidious rise in Islamophobia in Britain.
From the far-right violence that broke out in the summer of 2024 to the hatred directed at Muslims in public life during the Gaza conflict, anti-Muslim racism is dangerously out-of-control. Fed by a network of media outlets, think tanks, commentators, and even the entertainment industry, Islamophobia not only passes the dinner table test but is also Britain’s bigotry blind spot.
In conversation with barrister, mediator and writer Marina Wheeler KC.
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