Islamophobia
Islamophobia is powered by politics, domestic and foreign policies, and through recent political campaigns. It’s powered by our institutions and our labour market. It plays out on our TVs and social media, in our schools, and on the streets. It was only last year that a white terrorist ploughed his van into Muslims outside Finsbury Park Mosque.
We have to realise that Islamophobia isn’t just an uncomfortable conversation with a workmate about Islam, or someone hurling abuse at you on public transport. Its manifestations have helped shape a highly charged environment where Muslims are vilified, attacked, and even killed. Makram Ali was killed at Finsbury Park, Mushin Ahad kicked to death by two white men in Rotherham. And only a few days ago, Paul Moore was convicted of the attempted murder of a Somali mother, Zaynab Hussein. He knocked her down with his car and then tried running over her again, while she was on the ground. Minutes later, he attempted grievous bodily harm on a 12-year-old Muslim girl.
Recent events like the EU referendum vote, the attacks at London Bridge and Manchester have given an opening for racist crimes to rise. The backlash from such events impact Muslim communities across the country – especially women and young people. If we look at the figures on hate crime, there were over 80,000 offences reported in 2016-17 in England and Wales. That’s up from 62,000 from the year before. And these are reported crimes; imagine how many more go unreported. Islamophobia is part of everyday life for many Muslims living in Britain.
No one has any problem when: Jews keep beards and wear
their traditional caps Christian priests and nuns wear their religious outfits
Buddhist monks wear orange robes Sikhs keep beards and wear turbans Indian
aunties wear Sarees (cross streets and hang out in Wal-Mart) Yeah but if any
Muslim male keeps beard or if any Muslim girl wears hijab then everyone has
problem. It's Freedom when you go naked but it's extremism when you wear hijab -
just plain hypocrisy! Looking at the case of France, a major secular nation, I
believe it is also not allowing women freedom by not letting her to wear her
choice of clothing as it supposedly "clashes with French secular values".
Stop treating foreigners like garbage and they will
stop ruining your precious country. Why did you let them in in the first place
if you didn't want them here? They left everything in their countries because of
your promises. Are you so anxious to please that you can't say "no"? I would
love to see you go to a foreign land where you don't have any friends, you don't
even know anyone and you don't speak the language, and start from scratch.
The Muslim Council of Britain and the Church of England
condemned a spike in hate crimes recorded by police in England and Wales since
2012. The majority of the hate crimes were committed against Muslims.
Racially or religiously aggravated harassment crimes – such as verbal or written racist abuse – increased from a total of 15,249 in 2012 to 17,605 in 2014.
The figures, obtained from 41 of 43 police forces
approached through Freedom of Information (FoI) requests, show a total of more
than 47,000 hate crimes recorded over the past three years.
Muslims have been the main victims, say anti-racism
campaigners, partly due to the rise of Islamic State (formerly ISIS/ISIL), the
murder of Lee Rigby by Islamic extremists in 2013 and anti-immigration rhetoric
by right-wing and mainstream political parties.
Dr Shuja Shafi, secretary general of the Muslim Council
of Britain, described the recent spike in harassment crimes as “disturbing” but
“not unexpected” before stressing the “urgent need” to combat the growth of
Islamophobia across England and Wales.
“With racist bullying in schools attributed to
Islamophobia on the rise according to Childline, job discrimination against
Muslims commonplace and regular attacks against Muslims … there is a serious
concern that needs to be both acknowledged and tackled,” Shafi said.
In the past, Muslim community was a victim of Paki-Bashing and now it
is a victim of Islamophobia. Stop treating foreigners like garbage and they will
stop ruining your precious country. Why did you let them in in the first place
if you didn't want them here? They left everything in their countries because of
your promises. Are you so anxious to please that you can't say "no"? I would
love to see you go to a foreign land where you don't have any friends, you don't
even know anyone and you don't speak the language, and start from scratch.
The shocking level of targeting of the Muslim community of Birmingham
is indicative of the normalisation of the dehumanisation of the Muslims of
Britain. Under the pretext of "extremism", criminal undemocratic and unethical
abuse of public institutions and the Muslims of the UK can occur without much
accountability. This pervasive attitude, especially amongst officials like
Michael Gove needs to change. Our schools are truly trying to develop our
children to do well at schools so later in life they are able to stand on their
own two feet, but if we stop our schools from doing this than our country will
have up rise of unemployment, benefit issues, crime levels high, I think it's
time for you apologize and allow practitioners to do their job right.
Muslim community in all western countries need Masajid, state funded
Muslim schools, Halal meat, sharia laws, time off for Friday afternoon prayers
in the Masjid, two religious holidays per year and Muslim cemeteries. West must
learn to respect and tolerate those who are different. Don't these hypocrites
idiots know what their ancestors did to Native American Indians they slaughtered
150 millions of Native American Indians! and also do they know that Great
Britain invaded 80% countries around the world? They should call them terrorist
first and as well call their ancestors terrorist! British did the same to Native
American Indians and sadly they still treat Native American Indians badly! So
Americans Indians know how you Muslims feel! They stolen Indian land and killed
150 millions of Indians the British did! They were forced to go to the white
man's school and learn the language, culture and faith of the white man. Inspite
of that, they are still the underdogs of the American society.
British media and politicians have been trying their best to
propagate against Muslim schools. Muslim schools are even called Osama bin Laden
Academies by a Teaching Union. Only less than 5% of Muslim children attend
Muslim schools while more than 95% are in state schools to be mis-educated and
de-educated by non-Muslim monolingual teachers. The demand for state funded
Muslim schools is in accordance with the law of the land. Muslim community is
not asking for any favour. State schools get appalling Ofsted reports as well.
There will be good and bad state schools and good and bad free schools. Muslim
Girls school tops state school rankings in Blackburn. Yet, the only news we get
is about a failing school in Derby. Muslim children in state schools with
non-Muslim teachers are not in a position to develop positive self-confidence
and self-esteem.
The native Brits must learn to respect and tolerate those who are
different. You have failed to respect and tolerate Black community, who speaks
your language, share your culture and faith. English, Irish, Welsh and Scott
hate each other, sharing the same culture, faith and language. It is difficult
for you to accept, respect and tolerate Muslims with different culture,
languages and FAITH. You have no choice but to accept them for your own
survival. The number of Muslims is on the increase because of immigration, high
birth rate and conversion. By the end of this century, nearly 50% of British
population would be Muslim.
IA
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The National Transitional Council has voted for Saif al Islam Gaddafi to be tried in Libya
The National Transitional Council has voted for Saif al Islam Gaddafi to be tried in Libya.
Libyan information minister Mehmood Shammam says the decision will be discussed with the International Criminal Court's (ICC) chief prosecutor when he visits Libya on Monday.
Saif is wanted by the ICC on charges of crimes against humanity.
Mr Shammam said it would only be fair for Libyans to try Saif at home where he "committed crimes against Libyan people".