According to Trevor Phillips, the former equalities chief, the annual Islamaphobia awards are “genuinely dangerous”. He has been nominated for a controversial and satiric award from the Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC).
Phillips expressed that the “Islamophobe” tag “painted a target on the back of people on the list”. He said, “Defining myself or anybody else as an Islamophobe is offering a licence to do us harm. They will say that it is just verbal and political. They know that in this world right now this is not the way some people see it. It really isn't a joke. It is genuinely dangerous. These campaigns are all part of an attempt to intimidate public figures from saying anything at all about integration into our society.”
