By Vlad Tepes | RAIR Foundation
In the United Kingdom, Prime Minister Keir Starmer is advancing efforts to criminalize criticism of Islam under the guise of combatting “Islamophobia.”
His government is not only discussing a formal definition of Islamophobia—a term deliberately designed to silence dissent—but is also exploring legal measures to prohibit the desecration of religious texts and “offensive” speech about Islamic figures.
This is not about stopping hatred; it is about enshrining Islamic blasphemy laws into Western legal systems under the banner of “tolerance.”
While this issue has been brewing for years, it has now reached a boiling point. Across Europe and North America, governments are actively working to criminalize criticism of Islam under the guise of “tolerance.”
But this isn’t tolerance—it’s submission.
To understand how deep this rot runs, we are revisiting a suppressed interview with retired U.S. military intelligence officer Maj. (Ret.) Stephen Coughlin from 2016.
This interview—banned from YouTube and nearly erased from the internet—has been restored for RAIR Foundation because its revelations are too crucial to be forgotten.
It exposes the Obama administration’s collusion with the Muslim Brotherhood (Ikwan) to manipulate public perception of Islam, erase its direct link to jihadist terror, and gaslight the American public. These same efforts continued under Biden after being reversed by President Trump.
The consequences of these policies are undeniable.
Coughlin details how official U.S. military training at Fort Hood—yes, the same base where a Muslim military psychiatrist slaughtered 13 fellow soldiers in an act of jihad—explicitly separated Islam from Islamic terror.
This deliberate deception was a direct result of CVE (Countering Violent Extremism), an Obama-era initiative designed to whitewash Islamic doctrine from discussions about terrorism. Trump eliminated it, but Biden wasted no time resurrecting it upon taking office.
And here’s the most critical point: The sole purpose of free speech is the ability to criticize political and religious authority. If you take that away, you don’t have free speech—you don’t have freedom at all. This is why the First Amendment is first in the U.S. Constitution.
Europe has already begun implementing laws that treat criticism of Islam as a crime. The UK is moving forward with Keir Starmer’s latest push to criminalize so-called “Islamophobia.” France, Germany, and other EU nations are heading in the same direction.
This is not about “hate speech.” This is about enforcing Islamic blasphemy laws in what were once free nations.
If these laws continue to take hold, the ability to speak openly about Islam, jihad, and the radical transformation of the West will be gone. And when speech is gone, resistance is impossible.
The question now is: Will people wake up before it’s too late?
One can only hope that President Trump wasted no time in shutting down this insidious operation once and for all upon returning to the Oval Office.
