Despite anti-racism legislation, Britain witnessed a 28 per cent increase in racially motivated crime in five years, according to figures by the Ministry of Justice. Between 2006 and 2007, there were 61,000 complaints. The figures are based on cases reported by police in England and Wales. "Islamophobia" –fuelled by the 9/11 attacks and 7/7 train bombings in London – is blamed for many of the incidents.
Wow, that "Islamophobia" took a long time to get going, then: 7/7 was three years ago...
Not one example of an Islamophobic incident is given, and I do not believe there is a rising trend of Islamophobia in Britain - especially when one of the men trumpeting this report is the Muslim Council of Britain spokesman Inayat Bunglawala - who has refused to publicly condemn hate-filled Saudi books, and in fact actually defended Muslim book shop owners' right to sell them.
And besides, if there IS such a thing as Islamophobia, perhaps it has something to do with those events mentioned above - you know, Muslims shouting "Allahu akbar" and flying planes into buildings, or blowing people up on the London Underground. Perhaps if moderate Muslims actually did something to stop their co-religionists doing things like this, Islamophobia would end.
Just a thought.
And what race is Islam again?
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