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Wednesday, 8 August 2018

Belittled by burqa row, British Muslims fear rise in hate crime

‘When people attack you, you feel like the only thing you have to cling on to is your religion’

“I mean just what is his problem? He comes out with disgraceful stuff like this all the time. It’s not funny, it’s dangerous. He is peddling this rightwing rhetoric and shrouding it in humour.” Waqas Siddiqui is exasperated and fears yet another rise in hate crime in his home town of Blackburn after Boris Johnson’s controversial remarks about the burqa.

Related: Boris Johnson: pressure mounts in Tory party over burqa remarks

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from Islam | The Guardian https://ift.tt/2vNXT8p

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