Stand up to religious extremism, protect LGBT+ communities, and defend the values of equality and freedom that define modern Britain.
A group calling itself the ‘King’s Army’ recently marched through Soho, the heart of London’s LGBT+ community, shouting homophobic and religious slogans in an act of deliberate intimidation.
This was not just a protest. It was a coordinated show of force. Marching in black tracksuits, in military formation, they aimed to make LGBT+ people feel unsafe in their own communities.
Religious extremism of this kind is growing in the UK, influenced and supported by organisations overseas. It seeks to fuse religion with politics, to divide communities, and to undermine equality and human rights.
This is extremism, and it must be treated as such.
Humanists UK is writing to the Government’s Prevent programme to ask what it is doing to address the rise of far-right religious extremism. But public pressure is vital to see this issue taken seriously.
We believe in a tolerant, rational, and inclusive society where everyone, of all faiths and none, can live free from intimidation and fear.
Add your name today to demand that the police and Prevent stand up to religious extremism, protect LGBT+ communities, and defend the values of equality and freedom that define modern Britain.