UK House of Commons. The Muslim Times has the best collection to refute Islamophobia and racism
It has become so normalised in our society yet we struggle to define it. Our report will provide something we can all get behind
By Anna Soubry and Wes Streeting
Source: The Independent Voices
In recent years, British Muslim communities across the UK have experienced an increase in Islamophobia. To eradicate the deep-rooted nature of Islamophobia from our society, each of us has a responsibility to tackle prejudice wherever it occurs.
But the absence of a clear understanding of Islamophobia has allowed it to become normalised within our society and even socially acceptable, able to pass what Baroness Warsi described as the “dinner table test”. The consequences have been horrific.
The killing of grandfather Makram Ali outside a Finsbury Park mosque in 2017, the murder of another elderly Muslim male, Mushin Ahmed in Rotherham in 2015 and the brutal stabbing of Mohammed Saleem in Birmingham in 2013, serve as grave reminders of the perils of what can happen when Islamophobia goes unchecked.
The attacks on hijab wearing women in the street, the bombs threats made to places of worship, through to the coining of “Punish a Muslim Day”, has left vulnerable Britons feeling unsafe to go about their daily lives.
Islamophobic hate crime is a growing problem. Recent statistics highlight how attacks on Muslims have seen the highest increase. Nevertheless hate crime is the just the tip of the iceberg in terms of the underlying causes which remain hidden from sight. While we can tackle the overt manifestations of Islamophobia in the form of hate crimes, we are less conscious and less clued up about tackling that which lies beneath the waterline.
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It appears to be a step in the right direction. The root cause of hatred is ignorance it can only be defeated by spreading the knowledge of true Islam