Islamophobia ‘is seeping into the mainstream’ as far-right groups push propaganda
Rosie Carter, researcher at Hope not Hate, told the Telegraph, ‘Anti-Muslim hatred has become increasingly mainstreamed, with the conflation of cultural incompatibility and global threat – a narrative pushed by the counter jihad movement – no longer quarantined to the margins.’Mosques had windows broken in the attacks
Hope Not Hate says, ‘While Labour has its problems with antisemitism, the Conservatives have their own issues with anti-Muslim prejudice. ‘Half of the party’s 2017 voters think that Islam is incompatible to the British way of life and 47% think there are no go areas in Britain where sharia law dominates and non-Muslims cannot enter.
‘The negative attitudes of Tory voters towards Muslims and Islam has increased in recent years as many of the four million voters who backed UKIP in 2015 switching allegiance to the Tories. And with it they brought their hostile attitudes to Muslims and immigration more generally.’
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