Alwaght- A leading Muslim organization in Britain has warned over an upsurge of Islamophobia in the country after recent videos showing anti-Muslim abuse on public transport were posted online.
In a statement Miqdaad Versi of the Muslim Council of Britain said: “As a whole, we have to understand that the UK is a very tolerant society, with London one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world, and thankfully these kinds of attacks are relatively rare. But they are on the rise.
“The growth in Islamophobia has reached levels which are very worrying. Most Muslims know someone who’s suffered some form of abuse, whether online, physical or verbal. We’re now in a very serious situation and have been for the past year.”
In a recent Islamophobic attack, a woman was filmed shouting abuse at two Muslim women, one of whom was pregnant, and calling them “ISIS bitches”. A 36-year-old woman from north-west London was subsequently arrested and pleaded guilty to causing racially aggravated distress.
According to Tell MAMA, an organization that monitors anti-Muslim attacks through self-referrals, women are much more likely to be targeted because their dress makes them more vulnerable. “Women wearing the headscarf are more likely to experience name calling, have things thrown at them, general abuse”, Fiyaz Mughal of Tell MAMA said. “Women wearing the full-face veil will suffer both more incidents and more aggressive incidents, such as people pulling off their veils.”
A recent report for Tell MAMA, We Fear For Our Lives, based on in-depth interviews with the targets of Islamophobic attacks, found a spike in the number of incidents following “trigger” events such as the Charlie Hebdo shootings in Paris in January and the Tunisia terrorist attack in June.
According to Mughal, there has also been in increase in anti-Muslim attacks directly relating to the refugee crisis, which has seen hundreds of thousands of people fleeing persecution and conflict in the Middle East and Africa trying to reach safe haven in Europe.
Meanwhile a group of Muslims in Rotherham, a British town at the center of a historical child sex abuse scandal, are formally boycotting South Yorkshire Police over claims the force has not done enough to prevent Islamophobic behavior in the area.
According to a statement by British Muslim Youth on Sunday, the ongoing investigations into the sex abuse ring have left tensions in the community and seen incidents of Islamophobia on the rise. "Islamophobia is at unprecedented levels in Rotherham. According to figures collated by Tell MAMA, which records anti-Muslim hate crimes, there have been 27 attacks in Rotherham reported to them alone, in the last 12 months,” BMY said.
“This equates to more than two reports a month. Considering that Rotherham is a relatively small town, there is a real over-representation of hate crimes against Muslims in the town,” the statement said.
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