"Hatred against Muslims does not begin with the sound of gunfire in a place of prayer. It begins with simple prejudice in our schools, our workplaces, and our communities."
The British historian Aristotle Kallis carried out a study in 2018-19 titled “Islamophobia in the United Kingdom national report”. The study found that 3,530 cases of Islamophobic hate crime has been recorded, representing 47% of all recorded religiously motivated hate crime offences.
The percentage of Muslim adults (16 or over) who were victims of religiously motivated crime in 2017-18 was nearly double that recorded for any other religious group (0.8%).
In the London metropolitan area, Islamophobic hate crimes fell by 10% in 2019 (average of 100 incidents per month), against the backdrop of a larger-than-usual rise in 2018.
Still, ‘racist and religious hate crime’ overall figures grew by 11% in 2019.
(Source: Metropolitan Police, Hate Crime Dashboard)
