A UK mosque is targeted once a week – we need to deal with anti-Muslim hatred

Communities can't just carry on as normal.

Between May 2013 and June 2017, 167 mosques in the UK were targeted in anti-Muslim incidents and attacks.

These incidents, reported to and confirmed by Tell MAMA, the national project tackling growing anti-Muslim hate crime which I founded, range from the distribution of anti-Muslim literature in and around mosques to an attempted bombing campaign against three mosques in the West Midlands in 2013. This was carried out by a Ukrainian neo-Nazi, Pavlo Lapshyn, who also murdered an elderly Muslim man just yards from his home.