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“This government has made it clear that it is using Muslims as a political football in a race to the bottom to appeal to the worst xenophobic sentiments and racist myths using dog-whistle politics.”
Salman Butt, a Muslim public intellectual and the head of Islamic Thought at Islam21c, talks about the new definition of extremism revealed by Michael Gove, the UK's secretary of state for levelling up, housing and communities.
He explains the aspects that caught his attention before the new definition was released and talks about the lawsuit he filed against the government after being defamed as a so-called "extremist" in a press release from 10 Downing Street in 2015.
In this video, Salman emphasises that the British public should realise that Muslim scapegoats today - much like the Jewish, Irish or Black scapegoats used by demagogues of the past - are not their enemies.
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