British Muslims’ citizenship reduced to ‘second-class’ status, says thinktank
by Haroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#63GPS)
Recently extended powers to strip people of their nationality almost exclusively targets Muslims, report says
British Muslims have had their citizenship reduced to second-class" status as a result of recently extended powers to strip people of their nationality, a thinktank has claimed.
The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) says the targets of such powers are almost exclusively Muslims, mostly of south Asian heritage, embedding discrimination and creating a lesser form of citizenship.
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