In UK Women Were Targeted in Anti-Muslim Attacks, More Than Half by Far Right Groups
Far-right extremists are responsible for more than half of all attacks on Muslims, with women increasingly targeted in more than half of all Islamophobic hatred, a survey has found.
More than 600 attacks on Muslims were reported since March 2012, from a five-year-old child who was hit by a car to an 89-year-old pensioner, according to the UK’s official anti-Muslim violence helpline and charity Tell MAMA.
In one incident in Nottinghamshire, a family was forced from its home, after they had a pork-wrapped wooden cross placed outside their home, their mother abused in the street and smoke blown into the face of a child by an elderly man, after moving into a middle-class Nottinghamshire village.
A Muslim woman leaves the Baitul Futuh Mosque in Morden
The majority of those physically attacked on the street, harassed or intimidated were Muslim women, 58% of incidents.
“In one such case reported to us,” Fiyaz Mughal, co-ordinator of Tell MAMA and director of Faith Matters said, “a pregnant woman and her husband were assaulted, leaving their children in terror”.
In another, a five-year-old girl, walking with her mother in Islamic dress, was knocked down in a hit-and-run incident by a car. The report said: “Although the mother was screaming, no-one came to see if she needed help even though there were plenty of people passing by in cars.
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