{"id":542663,"date":"2026-04-21T10:49:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T10:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/542663\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T10:49:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T10:49:13","slug":"islam-is-not-compatible-with-the-liberal-democracy-of-the-uk-says-ben-habib-a-british-pakistani-politician-of-the-united-kingdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/542663\/","title":{"rendered":"Islam Is Not Compatible With the Liberal Democracy of the UK, Says Ben Habib, a British-Pakistani Politician of the United Kingdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSo let me just talk a little bit about Islam,\u201d he said. He described the <a aria-label=\"content\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsgram.com\/religion\/2026\/01\/27\/political-analyst-dalia-ziada-on-palestine\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Quran, the holy book of Islam, as the word of God, conveyed to Prophet Muhammad through the Angel Gabriel,<\/a> and argued that because it is considered perfect, it does not allow for criticism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd because it is perfect, it has no truck with criticism. Compare that to the, frankly, absurd description offered up by the dean of Trinity College two years ago,\u201d he said. He added that if similar remarks had been made about Prophet Muhammad, the consequences would have been very different.<\/p>\n<p>By drawing this comparison, he argued that Islam is not compatible with British democracy, where freedom of speech is considered fundamental.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Habib, also known as Benyamin Naeem Habib, is a former Member of the European Parliament. He is currently the leader of Advance UK, a political party in the United Kingdom, and previously served as co-deputy leader of Reform UK. Advance UK was launched in 2024 under the name Integrity Party and was relaunched in June 2025 under its current name.<\/p>\n<p>[VP]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cSo let me just talk a little bit about Islam,\u201d he said. He described the Quran, the holy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[186986,186982,1205,59,186987,57,58,186985,186981,50,186983,44744,115549,56,186984,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-542663","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-advance-uk","9":"tag-ben-habib","10":"tag-british","11":"tag-gb","12":"tag-grammar-school-teacher","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-greatbritain","15":"tag-jesus","16":"tag-liberal-democracy","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-oxford-union","19":"tag-pakistani","20":"tag-politicians","21":"tag-uk","22":"tag-uk-governance","23":"tag-united-kingdom","24":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}