European officials ‘deeply concerned’ for Muslims amid surge in attacks

[CharlieH]

French mounted police outside the Great Mosque of Paris in 2020. The French Muslim Council said 17 mosques had received threatening letters since Hamas’s attack on Israel. Photograph: Thomas Coex/AFP

 

Anti-racism officials across Europe have called on law enforcement agencies to remain alert for hate crimes against Muslims and “spare no effort” to protect them, in one of the first statements aimed at addressing a rise in Islamophobia amid the Israel-Hamas war.

The statement, signed by representatives from 10 European countries as well as EU officials, notes the rising number of hate crimes, hate speech and threats to civil liberties that have targeted Muslim and Jewish communities across Europe in recent months. Both “have become targets of physical and verbal attacks”, with people feeling “more and more unsafe and threatened, online and offline”, it read.

 

Addressing Islamophobia in particular, the group said it was “deeply concerned” for Muslims. “Such phenomena, if not addressed, can threaten social cohesion within our societies and can expose vulnerable communities to further harms,” it said.

The statement comes as tensions surge across the continent, leaving officials scrambling to contain a rise in hate crimes that have included an attempted arson on a synagogue in Berlin and more than 1,000 antisemitic acts in France. “Antisemitism and anti-Muslim hatred are equally reprehensible,” officials noted in the statement, published on Wednesday.

 

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[300sd]

Sleep in the bed you make!

[Pi Tao]

Is it a joke ???

 

[JonnyF]

11 minutes ago, Pi Tao said:

Is it a joke ???

 

 

Well it's from The Guardian, so yes but maybe not in the way you meant.

 

This seems to be a recent trend. When the Pro Palestine mob were out in force in London calling for the elimination of Israel they instead reported on Tommy Robinson. When the immigrant stabbed the children in Dublin they brushed over the attack and instead focused on the "far right" group that objected to it. Now that Muslims have been wreaking havoc across Europe they focus on "anti Muslim" hate. 

 

See a pattern?

[Hanaguma]

You might want to bow to the master Norm MacDonald on this one...

 

 

[soalbundy]

I can barely sleep at night through worry.

[RayC]

5 hours ago, JonnyF said:

 

Well it's from The Guardian, so yes but maybe not in the way you meant.

 

This seems to be a recent trend. When the Pro Palestine mob were out in force in London calling for the elimination of Israel they instead reported on Tommy Robinson. When the immigrant stabbed the children in Dublin they brushed over the attack and instead focused on the "far right" group that objected to it. Now that Muslims have been wreaking havoc across Europe they focus on "anti Muslim" hate. 

 

See a pattern?

 

No. How does this article fit your pattern?

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2023/oct/20/a-lot-of-pain-europes-jews-fear-rising-antisemitism-after-hamas-attack