Anti-Muslim hate has increased since 7-10

The population of Gaza increased overnight... 80% of 49 million people globally live in Gaza? FFS.

"49 million people in 43 countries across the globe are at risk of falling into famine or a severe hunger crisis"

https://www.actionagainsthunger.org.uk/why-hunger/world-hunger-facts#:~:text=Facts%20and%20figures&text=49%20million%20people%20in%2043,or%20a%20severe%20hunger%20crisis.&text=Globally%2C%20almost%20one%20in%20ten,to%20bed%20hungry%20every%20night.&text=3%20billion%20people%20can't%20afford%20a%20healthy%2C%20nutritious%20diet.

@CroftonWillow who is 'us' that you refer to? time and time again as a British Muslim who was born here and grew up here, I am reminded that I am not seen as a part of British society. I am and always will be an outsider.

When someone chooses to spit at me in the street, threaten my child, assault me, issue death threats, paint offensive graffiti on the street I walk down, discriminate against me when I seek to access public services, etc., I tend to consider them to have responsibility for their own actions.

Nowhere have I indicated I'm blaming the victims (I assume you mean non-extremist Muslims?). I clearly lay the blame at the extremists.

@CroftonWillow and what exactly are myself and family supposed to do, to be considered as part of 'us' apart from what we are doing already?
Lived as a minority within a minority in my town for the last ten odd years, have great relationships with various neighbours, yet still recieve abuse for being Muslim once in awhile from total strangers.
Whatever I do will never be good enough for some because I am visibly muslim, even though we go out of our way and make that extra effort when we can because we know there's a chance people will be looking at us suspiciously.
We had a mosque open day once, I had a lovely chat with an elderly lady who came to visit, before she left she said I didn't realise you were just like us. I just smiled as I know she didn't mean it in a offensive way, but it's the reality of the lives for many of us here that we will always be outsiders.

Like I said, we're all racist. Some just won't admit it.

And because they might not have equal rights then we should use it to hate speech on Muslims? Remember that’s what this thread is about. Not each characteristic about the religions.

Halal slaughter, allowing students to leave classes for prayer sessions, allowing face coverings for religious purposes but not other (eg petrol stations refusing to serve motorcyclists if they do not remove their crash helmets), provision of long term interpreter services because people do not learn the native language, being labelled racist for objecting to any of these very few examples.

Nice victim blaming there.

Xenophobia… you do know what that word means right? Google it. Read back every single post you have made here. Then apply it to yourself.

Jewish people? The same Jewish people who eat kosher food. I’m assuming you dislike that alongside halal food. Also, where have I brought up Jewish people?

It's wrong but it's unfortunately an inevitable response.

"My" people? Not sure who you think "my" people are. I'm the daughter of a refugee, and because my skin is a little darker than white I got called a P when I was a child. Because some of my childhood friends were Indian Hindus, I got called a P-lover. Because my family escaped the Nazis, I am inherently suspicious of anyone who hates Jews. We're all racist, no matter what our colour, because it's not only whites who are racist. But yeah, let your lazy xenophobia shine through.

@CroftonWillow and what about the intimidation, threats and violence against Muslims? Should we accept that, or should we be able to say that's not ok either? Because that's what this thread is about - the hatred, discrimination and abuse experienced by Muslims.

@CroftonWillow who is 'us' that you refer to? time and time again as a British Muslim who was born here and grew up here, I am reminded that I am not seen as a part of British society. I am and always will be an outsider.

@usernamealreadytaken your understanding of racism is so basic I don’t even know where to begin. When racism or any other kind of prejudice is talked about on a national level individual interactions are only a very very small part of what is being discussed. How this manifests at an institutional level and affects life outcomes is much more relevant. Health inequalities, levels of unemployment, rampant Islamophobia in the press etc. Even if every Muslim person in the UK had a prejudice against white people (which they do not) it is highly unlikely that you would experience this to the same extent.

I am dying at your pork sausage argument. Do we provide cannabis to people from nations in which it is legalised because that something that they choose to partake in? You must live in a different UK to me because last I checked we don’t even give refugees time to find accommodation when they're accepted, a lot of them end up homeless on the street.

You can lay blame for the rise of “parallel societies” firmly at the feet of your own people. Multiculturalism was enshrined in policy for decades. Similarly, you can’t blame immigrant communities for the white flight which has resulted in areas which are overwhelmingly populated by one group.

Few racists? According to you, you aren’t one of them and yet a lot of people on this thread would beg to differ. Somehow, I don’t think you are qualified to determine who is, and who is not racist.

It receives unbalanced coverage. Why would media give time and space to things like charitable work undertaken by Muslim organisations, successful interfaith projects, etc? That doesn't generate nearly the same amount of interest as they could get with stories of injustice, fear or controversy.

I suspect that, in most places, if people reached out across cultural and religious divides, they would find far more in common with each other than not, if they approach it with an open mind and heart.

@usernamealreadytaken your understanding of racism is so basic I don’t even know where to begin. When racism or any other kind of prejudice is talked about on a national level individual interactions are only a very very small part of what is being discussed. How this manifests at an institutional level and affects life outcomes is much more relevant. Health inequalities, levels of unemployment, rampant Islamophobia in the press etc. Even if every Muslim person in the UK had a prejudice against white people (which they do not) it is highly unlikely that you would experience this to the same extent.

I am dying at your pork sausage argument. Do we provide cannabis to people from nations in which it is legalised because that something that they choose to partake in? You must live in a different UK to me because last I checked we don’t even give refugees time to find accommodation when they're accepted, a lot of them end up homeless on the street.

You can lay blame for the rise of “parallel societies” firmly at the feet of your own people. Multiculturalism was enshrined in policy for decades. Similarly, you can’t blame immigrant communities for the white flight which has resulted in areas which are overwhelmingly populated by one group.

Few racists? According to you, you aren’t one of them and yet a lot of people on this thread would beg to differ. Somehow, I don’t think you are qualified to determine who is, and who is not racist.