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Friday, 22 March 2019

Anti-Muslim hate crimes soar in UK after Christchurch shootings

Exclusive: rise in number of incidents related to NZ attacks alarms community groups

The number of anti-Muslim hate crimes reported across Britain increased by 593% in the week after a white supremacist terrorist killed worshippers at two New Zealand mosques, an independent monitoring group has said.

The charity Tell Mama said almost all of the increase was caused by hate incidents linked to the New Zealand attacks last Friday, and there were more recorded in the last seven days than the week following the 2017 Islamist terrorist attack on Manchester.

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from Islam | The Guardian https://ift.tt/2CzC14K

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