Over the last few years, the United Kingdom has seen Islamophobia rise at a disturbing rate. Laila Hassan is an activist from Stand Up To Racism based in Bolton,Greater Manchetser. She talks about the raising issues of hate crime specially towards Muslims in the UK and the world .She also talks about how politicians use the name of Islam defame it and spread hate and division for their own benefit. “The United Kingdom has more than 3.4 million Muslim residents, making up almost 5 percent of its overall population. Even decades later, British anti-racist legislation is inadequate for dealing with the targeting of Muslims by far-right groups using subtler forms of prejudice and discrimination. For example, prominent columnists at major platforms have written articles calling Islamophobia a fiction, arguing that there isn’t nearly enough Islamophobia within the Tory party, or ominously asking, “What will we do about the Muslim problem then?” They’ve faced negligible professional fallout or loss of respectability, something that is hard to imagine if the target were another group. Before he was prime minister, Boris Johnson even compared women in burqas to “letterboxes” and “bank robbers.” Despite Islamophobic incidents reportedly jumping by 375 percent in the week following his comments, an internal inquiry by the Conservatives found them to be “respectful and tolerant - Article By BY MOHAMMAD ZAHEER | Foreign Policy . https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/01/29/islamophobia-united-kingdom-anti-racist-definitions/

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