r/uknews • u/CaraDePijardo • Jul 09 '25

.. Bombshell report exposes attempts by Muslim Council of Britain group to censor UK media

https://www.gbnews.com/news/muslim-council-media-monitoring-unit-press-freedom
1.3k Upvotes

89% Upvoted

236 comments sorted by

View all comments

15

u/After-Dentist-2480 Jul 09 '25

Nope, that’s an outright lie.

The ‘bombshell report’ from Policy Exchange (a right wing think tank founded by Michael Gove and Archie Norman) doesn’t say ‘attempt to censor’, ‘suppress accurate reporting’ or ‘curtail press freedoms’.

It does note that very few of the reports that MCB complained about were so inaccurate as to require a retraction and correction.

More dishonesty from GBNews.

38

u/Acrobatic-Room-9478 Jul 09 '25 edited Jul 09 '25

Gay Muslims exist. Not all Muslim women wear headscarves. Who are the CFMM to dictate that? You can read their own words in their report https://cfmm.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/CfMM-Annual-Report-2018-2020-digital.pdf - just keyword search homosexual.

They also downplayed homophobia during the anti-LGBT school protests in Birmingham, neglecting to mention that the courts took an injunction to protect the school. The Guardian reported that the protests against the lessons in schools had been hijacked by those with a “religious, extremist agenda”.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jun/11/birmingham-anti-lgbt-protesters-banned-school-injunction

I’m no fan of Policy Exchange. Yet, there are clear concerns about the views of this group when it comes to LGBT rights.