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A 2013 report by Professor Nigel Copsey of Teesside University, concluded that between 40% and 60% of mosques and other Islamic centers in the UK had suffered vandalism or arson. [54] In the week following the London Bridge attack in June 2017, anti-Muslim hate crimes increased fivefold.
The English Defence League (EDL) was a far-right, Islamophobic organisation active in England from 2009 until the mid-late 2010s. A social movement and pressure group that employed street demonstrations as its main tactic, the EDL presented itself as a single-issue movement opposed to Islamism and Islamic extremism, although its rhetoric and actions targeted Islam and Muslims more widely.
The group originated out of the joining of the Danish group Stop Islamisation of Denmark with English anti-Islam activists. [4] The group says that its aim is to oppose Islamic extremism; [5] they have the motto "Racism is the lowest form of human stupidity, but Islamophobia is the height of common sense". [6]
LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said violent protesters who had targeted Muslim communities would swiftly face the "full force of the law" as he sought to quell days of anti ...
Pegida UK was an anti-Islam group in the United Kingdom established by Tommy Robinson in 2016. It was named after the German group Pegida – Patriotische Europäer gegen die Islamisierung des Abendlandes ( German for 'Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West').
LONDON (Reuters) - British police charged a man with multiple counts of racially aggravated criminal damage on Thursday, after a series of anti-Muslim incidents last October and November at the ...
At the same time, The Times revealed that "Tory councillors, officials and agents" were also found to be members of anti-Islam Facebook groups. [27] Writing for Vox , Jennifer Williams linked Johnson's comments with wider anti-Muslim sentiment across Europe, [ 25 ] and research by Tell MAMA in 2019 revealed that Islamophobic incidents increased ...
The murders were seized on by anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim groups as misinformation spread that the suspected attacker was an immigrant and a radical Islamist. Police have said the suspect was ...