Southport’s Muslims still plagued by Islamophobic incidents a year on from race riots, imam says
Southport continues to be uncomfortable with Islamophobic events a year after the deadly knife attack that led to racing uprisings last year, and the president of the mosque announced.
Imam Ibrahim Hussein, the president of Southport Mosque, said that the members have reported six incidents to the police since last July – they have reported for 30 years since they opened in the town.
The mosque in the town of Seaside was found in the center of the uprisings around the country last July and was triggered by misinformation spreading online after an attack on a Taylor Swift -themed dance class, who killed three young girls in Southport.
Alice da Silva Aguiar, Nine, Bebe King, Six and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, dead, and eight girls and two more adults remained.
Mr. Hussein remembers that the memory of the attack is “always in his mind ve and how the community hopes to support the families in any way possible.
“He doesn’t leave me one night. Of course, we were ruined when the terrible attack took place … We hope we could give any support to the family. We just offer to be there and pray.
“But we said we’d be targeted very quickly.”
After the mosque declared that the perpetrator was a Muslim asylum seeker, he was found at the Islamophobic rebellion center after the attack.
“In the evening, he climbed a big mafia charging very quickly.
However, the next day, the local community appeared in “drivers için to rebuild and support the broken wall of the mosque.
He said: “The reaction from the local community was great. We always knew that we were in good conditions with our neighbors, there was nothing but mutual respect between us, and that morning they all continued to support us and the Muslim community.”
However, a year later, Hussein said that Southport’s small Muslim community continued to feel tense in the midst of Islamophobia.
He said: “In the last 30 years, since the mosque has been here, there have been three events that have been reported every ten years.
“But last year, there were six or seven events that we had to report.
The events that targeting Muslims in the region involved the objects thrown into the mosque and the drawing of cars.
In June, a mosque’s rear window was reported to be damaged by an object suspected of being thrown by a catapult.
“People feel anxious and anxious. There is an inadequate current of something, but we cannot put our finger. So I had to warn people to be awake and careful.”
Authorized, in recent weeks of asylum seekers and other mosques in recent weeks, how to coincide with events around the country, he added.
Last month, a 34 -year -old man went to court due to an attack on the Islamic Center in Belfast. The police said that a valid device was thrown out of a window of the center during the evening prayer on Friday evening.
Last year, Mama, a charity that follows Islamophobic events, said that a survey has found that the majority of Muslims has become more common since summer uprisings.
The organization analyzed the views of 750 Muslims throughout England eight weeks after disorder eruption in some parts of England and Northern Ireland.
Tell Mama, under three quarters (71 percent) felt anti -Muslim hatred and Islamophobia has become more common since unrest. Almost two (62 percent) said that the risk of damaging Muslim communities has been significant or increased a little since then.
