LONDON (Reuters) - Activists in Britain's Muslim community have called on the government to take action against rising Islamophobia, six times higher than New Zealand's terrorist attacks last month.
Muhammad Mahmood, an imam of East London mosque, told Anatolia that the problem of Islamophobia is no longer just theoretical and not just right-wing. It is a coordinated effort. It is not only hateful but incites violence in the United Kingdom, Europe and even as far away as New Zealand. .
He said the community was concerned about similar attacks on mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, which killed 51 worshipers and wounded dozens, and called on the government to act because any attack on Muslims would affect the fabric of society as a whole.
He also called on the British imam to provide adequate funding to protect the Muslim community in his country, which includes more than three million Muslims, considering that this is the responsibility of the authorities, which must protect from control.
"The government has a role to play in this regard, and this role is to empower Muslim societies as well as to look for the root cause of the problem," said Abdullah Falak, head of research at the Cordoba Foundation.
He called for strengthening the security of the Muslim community and issuing laws to ban hate speech, pointing out that until recently there was a disregard for the rise of racist attacks paid by white nationalism and racism.
"You can never rule out anything. We knew there were trends in Islamophobia, but the size of the New Zealand attack was really shocking. There is fear in Muslim society."
Since the Christchurch attacks, six mosques have been attacked with heavy hammers in Birmingham, targeting an Islamic school in Newcastle, and dozens of Muslim men and women have been targets of abusive practices on the streets of London.