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British Muslims face increasing prejudice: survey
 | File under Poor, Poor, Put-upon Turbans... |
| My inner Dewey Decimal System is sayin' they should be filed under "Turbans, Put-upon"... |
The number of British Muslims who say they experience discrimination has nearly doubled in the past four years, according to a survey published on Thursday. Some 80 percent of the country's 1.8 million Muslims say they have been discriminated against because of their faith compared to 45 percent in 2000 and 35 percent in 1999, the Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) said. Muslim men are now just as likely as women to experience prejudice - a significant change which the IHRC blamed on an increase in the number of police and security checks carried out on Muslim men since the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001.
| They are more likely to kill people than Muslim women, or Lutherans of either sex... |
White British Muslims report more discrimination than any other ethnic group, suggesting Britons are intolerant of apostates who convert to Islam.
| Perhaps because they see them as joining the other side? People are waking up, y'know. You can only fool some of the people all the time... |
"What's happened, post 9/11, is that some very deeply rooted prejudices - things that weren't articulated in the public realm - have found expression," Arzu Merali, one of the authors of the report, told Reuters. Eight percent of the 1,200 Muslims questioned in the survey said they experienced some sort of discrimination every day. Another 8 percent said it was a weekly problem, 8 percent described it as monthly and 55 percent said they had been discriminated against "on some occasions".
Posted by: Fred 2004-12-17 |
