{"id":552034,"date":"2025-11-06T03:16:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T03:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/552034\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T03:16:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T03:16:13","slug":"humza-yousaf-compares-modern-islamophobia-to-1930s-germany-and-issues-call-to-mobilise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/552034\/","title":{"rendered":"Humza Yousaf compares modern ‘Islamophobia’ to 1930s Germany and issues call to ‘mobilise’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Humza Yousaf has compared modern “Islamophobia” to 1930s Germany as he issued a call to “mobilise”.<\/p>\n

The former Scottish First Minister said “conspiracy theories and lies” about Muslim today are “hauntingly reminiscent” of the language used about Jewish people in the 1930s.<\/p>\n

Mr Yousaf was speaking ahead of an address in Washington DC on Thursday and said there had been a “frightening rise” in Islamophobia in recent months on both sides of the Atlantic.<\/p>\n

The ex-FM pointed to arson attacks targeting mosques and said Muslim graves had been “desecrated”. <\/p>\n

He also raged at Tommy Robinson’s thousands-strong Unite the Kingdom march in London – and branded the activist a “proud Islamophobe”.<\/p>\n

The former SNP boss then turned his fire on “open Islamophobia” from senior American politicians, including against Zohran Mamdani<\/a>, the mayor-elect of New York City<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Speaking just after Mr Mamdani’s election, Mr Yousaf said: “A wonderful victory for the inspirational mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani. He ran on a bold and radical agenda, all while facing down anti-Muslim bigots. <\/p>\n

“Progressives on both sides of the Atlantic should take note. Excited to see Mayor Mamdani in action.”<\/p>\n

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Humza Yousaf compared modern ‘Islamophobia’ to 1930s Germany<\/p>\n

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Mr Yousaf said it was “incumbent” on those who hate Islamophobia to unite against it, urging people to “get organised and mobilise across borders to tackle this growing threat”.<\/p>\n

Prior to his speech at Georgetown University, he said: “Many Muslims in the US tell me they are living in fear, and worry about their rights as citizens being stripped away from them without notice or due cause.”<\/p>\n

Mr Yousaf added: “We know the far-right forces across the Atlantic are supporting each other and sharing disinformation.”<\/p>\n

He continued: “I will be working with allies in the fight against anti-Muslim hatred both at home and in the US to create a transatlantic alliance to tackle Islamophobia. <\/p>\n

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Mr Yousaf congratulated Zohran Mamdani (pictured) on his election to be New York City’s Mayor<\/p>\n

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“We cannot be passive as the threat of the far-right continues to rise, if we allow such hatred to go unchecked, the consequences could be devastating.”<\/p>\n

Last week, Mr Yousaf argued a graffiti attack on a mosque in Glasgow showed anti-Muslim hate is being “normalised”.<\/p>\n

In September, the former First Minister, who resigned before a vote of no confidence last year<\/a>, called for legal authorities to give exemptions to those who “peacefully” backed terrorist group Palestine Action. <\/p>\n

The organisation was formally designated a terrorist organisation in August after its members broke into an RAF base in Oxfordshire and caused around \u00a37million of damage to military planes.<\/p>\n

His request was slapped down by the Solicitor General for Scotland, Ruth Charteris, on behalf of Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain. <\/p>\n

She said that by issuing a statement on the prosecution policy, the Lord Advocate would contradict her “obligation to independently enforce the criminal law”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Humza Yousaf has compared modern “Islamophobia” to 1930s Germany as he issued a call to “mobilise”. The former…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1824,119458,12,285,3106,978,727],"class_list":{"0":"post-552034","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-germany","11":"tag-humza-yousaf","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-politics","14":"tag-uk-politics","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-us-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115500586277800554","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}