Who could possibly be surprised?The conservatives have been whipping up anti Muslim  sentiment since well before the election.

 Alexander and Leitch are always  mentioned for the Barbaric Practices Tip line but they came late in the process and were not off message with the rest of the party.

The whole niqab drama was started by Jason Kenny who changed directives regarding the wearing of the niqub at citizenship courts. When  his directive was nixed by the courts he appealed and the Conservative kept the issue in the press and pandered hard to the xenophobes throughout the election. .

Saying that the word Islamophobia should not be used is absurd. If the recent attack on  Muslims had been on a group of Jewish people it is hard to imagine that anyone would object to a motion against antisemitism 

Anyway what is the point of watering down the motion so that it can be signed on by a group who have been fanning the flames of Islamophobia and  have found it useful politically.