{"id":8115,"date":"2014-12-29T13:13:39","date_gmt":"2014-12-29T13:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/12\/29\/anti-muslim-hate-crimes-rise\/"},"modified":"2014-12-29T13:13:39","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T13:13:39","slug":"anti-muslim-hate-crimes-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2014\/12\/29\/anti-muslim-hate-crimes-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Muslim Hate Crimes Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rise in Number of Muslim Women Reporting Hate Crimes in UK in Past Two Years<\/h3>\n

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\nThe number of women wearing the Niqab, face veil, reporting hate crimes has doubled in the past two years. These statistics have been provided by TELL MAMA, a national project which measures anti-Muslim incidents. They claim there has been a 5-10% increase in the past 18 months.<\/p>\n


\nDirector of TELL MAMA, Fiyaz Mughal, stated he is unsure whether hate crimes are becoming more prevalent or reporting has increased. \u201cOver the last two years our data has shown that women suffer more incidents of hate and they also suffer more aggressive incidents of hate,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cThe veil seems to delegitimise the sense of femininity of that person in the eyes of the perpetrator.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cIt seems to become something they become fixated upon rather than the individual, the female behind the veil.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nThe research shows that women are mostly subject to verbal and physical attacks by men on the street. 21-year-old Yasmeen Khalid from Bromsgrove said that although she has always endured abuse, the problem has escalated recently. She admits that out of 30 different incidents she has been through she has only reported two and that wearing the hijab has made her a target.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cBy looking, they instantly know I’m Muslim… sometimes people call me a terrorist, sometimes they say ‘Paki’, sometimes someone has called me ‘Taliban’ or stuff like that,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cSometimes I walk off humiliated – I shouldn’t be humiliated but I am humiliated.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cSometimes I speak up, sometimes I just cry, go away somewhere, and cry because I don’t know what to do.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nAnother victim of abuse, Shalina Litt from Birmingham, shares her views, \u201cActually we are mothers, we are daughters, we are sisters,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cI really just hope that any mothers, any daughters etc., can speak to their sons and say actually it’s not right and we do need to change how we approach this.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nMughal says there\u2019s, \u201cbeen an enormous shift in the language of anti-Muslim hate. International and national incidents create differences in the way narratives are set.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nHowever TELL MAMA state hate crimes are still under reported by Muslims, they aim to work with different agencies through community outreach and education. \n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rise in Number of Muslim Women Reporting Hate Crimes in UK in Past Two Years The number of women wearing the Niqab, face veil, reporting hate crimes has doubled in the past two years. These statistics have been provided by TELL MAMA, a national project which measures anti-Muslim incidents. They claim there has been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}