LONDON: The first British Muslim woman cabinet minister of Pakistani origin and chairwoman of ruling Conservative party on Thursday launched an attack on Britains approach to Islam and warned that describing Muslims as moderate or extremist, fostered prejudice against them. Baroness Warsi cautioned that Islamophobia was seen as normal and acceptable at dinner parties. In a speech at the University of Leicester, she pledged to use her position to wage an 'ongoing battle against bigotry. Baroness Warsi said: Its not a big leap of imagination to predict where the talk of 'moderate Muslims leads. In the factory, where theyve just hired a Muslim worker, the boss says to his employees: 'Not to worry, hes only fairly Muslim. In the school, the kids say: 'The family next door are Muslim but theyre not too bad. And in the road, as a woman walks past wearing a burka, the passersby think: 'That womans either oppressed or is making a political statement. Her high-profile intervention suggests that the government is more willing than its Labour predecessors to tackle sensitive issues of race and religion.