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🚨 Islam Awareness Month 🚨 DAY 7 As a veteran, I find the timing of Islamophobia Awareness Month during our Remembrance period deeply offensive. November is when Britain pauses to remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice defending our freedoms. Yet, against that backdrop, we are being asked to devote an entire month to a campaign that risks framing legitimate concerns about Islamist extremism as prejudice. This is no coincidence. The timing and messaging deserve serious scrutiny. It risks obscuring a very real and uncomfortable history: terrorist attacks carried out in the name of Islam, including by British-born extremists who have murdered and scarred innocent people on our own streets. We should be able to remember our fallen, acknowledge the threat of Islamist terrorism and challenge genuine prejudice without one being used to silence discussion of the other. I find the timing distasteful, the messaging deeply questionable and the implications for national security impossible to ignore. I will not be posting an “Awareness” post on Sunday. Out of respect for our fallen, Remembrance Sunday deserves our undivided attention.