Posted on 07/28/2005 7:58:32 AM PDT by traumer
The number of attacks on Asians has risen significantly since the London bombings, police and Muslim groups say.
The number reported to the Islamic Human Rights Commission - not including those reported to police - has risen more than 13-fold, its chairman said. The total number of "faith-related" attacks reported across London rose 500% compared with the same period last year, the Muslim Safety Forum says.
This "backlash" is "exactly what those who promote terrorism want" police say. Association of Chief Police Officers community and counter-terrorism head Assistant Chief Constable Rob Beckley told BBC News the police would protect Asians and Muslims.
"We have to, and we will, sustain a response to this."
People are going to fight back Muslim Safety Forum
The police have gone to great lengths to stress those suspected of involvement in the bombings are not from any single ethnic group. But the Muslim Safety Forum, which works closely with the police monitoring the total number of incidents reported, blames "prominent people within our society" and the media for saying all British Muslims share something in common with the bombers.
A spokesman told BBC News "bigots" now felt they had the "right to commit these atrocities". The 7 July bombings were "a single criminal act" and all British Muslims could not be held responsible, he added.
British Muslims would not continue to allow themselves to be victimised and criminalised without a further "backlash" from them, the spokesman told BBC News.
"People are going to fight back."
Islamic Human Rights Commission chairman Massoud Shadjareh is monitoring the number attacks on Asian people not reported to the police.
He told BBC News the commission was "extremely concerned at the escalation of backlash attacks against Muslims since 7/7".
"Normally we get something in the region of between six and seven every week. "Now in less than two weeks we have had 170 reported to us alone."
The attacks, across the whole of the UK, covered "everything" from verbal abuse and spitting to arson, Mr Shadjareh added.
Nine mosques had been attacked, a garage firebombed, people assaulted in the street, and homes had had their windows broken, he told BBC News.
"It is really very worrying."
Three days after the 7 July bombings, Kamal Butt, 48, from Pakistan was murdered outside a corner shop in Nottingham. Eight juveniles and a man have been arrested.
"The police have gone to great lengths to stress those suspected of involvement in the bombings are not from any single ethnic group."
Really?????
Seems to me they are... against the evil Muslim "hate crimes" on the London subways and buses that "victimized" innocent travelers.
Now, go FOAD.
And intentionally targeting civilians by blowing up trains and buses isn't a hate crime?
Oh...right...because it wasn't committed by a WASP.
I missed the body count. How many died and how many were injured? None?
Apparently the muzzies mass murder of infidels is not a "hate crime". I Euronate on them. Let the soccer yobs have a go at it..
That photo isn't real/
Maybe "the people" are not impressed by the police politically correct posturing. Until the government(s), including ours, recognizes that the terrorists do come from a single ethnic group "the people" will continue to distrust governments.
You've never been on the tube. The staff are making jokes and not toeing the comapny line.
This violence is not going to help. It’s just what Osama would want, as the copper points out.
What is disappointing is the comment from the Muslim Safety Forum, whinging about ‘prominent people’ blaming all Muslims. No they didn’t. Sort your stuff out.
If muslims want to create fear in westerns, westerns have the same right to create fee in muslims.
Seems fair to me.
The train/bus bombings seemed like hate crimes, too.
It is strange that the media/Leftists don't address those kinds of 'incidents' as such.
"Round up the usual suspects!"
"I'm shocked! Shocked, I tell you, to know that there has been" jihading going on!
Sorry, that should have said "the staff are always making jokes and not toeing the company line".
Why can't they admit the bombings were the mother of all the hate crimes?
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