Muslims report in the United Kingdom on sabotage and attacks amid the controversial flag campaign Racism news

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When the Akka mosque* last week in Basildon, a town in the English province of Esix, was shaken.

“I was very affected,” said 33 -year -old engineer, who asked the island to use a pseudonym. “It was very close to the house. My local mosque (mosque). I felt like a real kick in the teeth.”

The Islamic Center in southern Essex in Basildon was shortened shortly before midnight. The red crosses were immersed through its walls alongside the phrase “Christ is the king” and “This is England.”

The timing appeared, on the night before Friday prayers, for many calculated – an attempt to intimidate a wave of worshipers in the southeast English province.

“My wife and my child are growing here,” he said, I complete the Al -Jazeera channel. “I want to get out of the area. I can’t stay here.”

Community leaders condemned the attack.

Javin Callen, the Passelon Council leader, described it as “compassionate criminal cheese.”

“Do not wear it. Don’t be excused. It is a scum, and our town is mixed … the cowards who did so will be arrested,” he said. “To do this immediately before Friday prayers, it is not a coincidence. This is targeted. This is intimidation. He is a criminal.”

“The flag of St. George is a symbol of England that we must be proud of all. In order to be used in this way, (which) repeat how the Nazis targets Jewish homes, is a defect in our knowledge and our nation. Silence has allowed hatred for growth,” said Wajid Akhtar, President of the Islamic Council of Britain.

Essex police investigate the accident.

The council employees and volunteers worked in the early hours of the morning to remove writing on the walls before the arrival of worshipers, but the feeling of fear is still continuing.

“I was shocked,” said Sajid Vanie, 43, who lives in the area. “I didn’t expect anything like that here.”

Local bishops criticized the abuse of Christian images in the attack. They issued a joint statement called sabotage “a scandal and a deeply misleading”, saying that calling Christianity to justify racism is “false and dangerous in terms of moral.”

Racism amid a campaign to raise the flag

Variac in a tense atmosphere in the United Kingdom, center Protests against asylum seekers And a campaign for social media called #Oborismraisethecolors.

In recent weeks, those who are watching the invitation were It linked the flag of England Saint George’s Cross and Union Jacks bears bridges of highways, Lampposts, rounds and some stores all over the UK. Red crosses were on white lines of zebra.

According to the right -wing Hope Group, the campaign is led by Andrew Corin, a former member of the English English Defense Association and now a security figure for Britain political first, as well as a group against Muslims.

While some supporters put the project as a national, it has been linked to racist accidents.

The writing on racist walls appeared in several other sites. For example, about 300 miles (about 500 km) north of Basildon have been sprayed Durham County and Hason if you attribute In northern England.

Some blame the media’s focus on the issue of asylum.

In recent months, British television networks and newspapers have allocated great coverage for asylum seekers, as some social networking sites allow hateful content to reproduce.

Our young Bigoum, President of Ronimid Trust, a research center for ethnicity, said that the series of sabotage is part of a “frightening intensification of fear of Islam” led by the political and media narration that screams from Islamic societies.

She said: “The violence that is played in our streets and sabotaging mosques is the product of political and media pictorial music that has witnessed the demonization of Muslim societies unabated.” “Whether it is a policy or novels, a monotonous diet has been fed that tells us that our economic problems are caused by Muslims, immigrants and people looking for asylum.”

It warned that history shows governments that fail to confront economic grievances during the collapse of minorities in a scapegoat.

She said: “The question is how much this cost will cost to betray the Islamic societies that are presented as a political feed.”

“It is a factor of fear.” They are the (media channels). They put terrorism in the hearts of people when it comes to Muslims. I want to show people that we are just like them. We are human. “

Days before the mosque was sabotaged, a reversal dizziness was drawn with a red cross.

Vanie said: “I did not feel the insult through the flags of England that are being transferred,” Vanie said. “But this is different. Through a line.”

In the wake of sabotage, the mosque leaders encouraged worshipers to attend Friday prayers in larger numbers, such as showing flexibility.

Vanie said that the turnout is greater than the usual: “Praise be to God (Praise be to God), led to the arrival of more people to the mosque, and therefore the result was positive.”

“A line between being patriotic and racist is explicit”

Maryam*, a Muslim woman who lives in Basildon, expressed her regret “attack on the Islamic community” because she confirmed that she reflects a dark climate.

“There is a line between being patriotic and being racist or Islamic awe – and some people here cross this line.”

From her point of view, a wave of protests against those looking for housing asylum in hotels coincided earlier this summer with Islamic abuse – especially in Ebing, a nearby town where the Bill Hotel was the focus of violent excitement.

Police data has yet to have a link or a rise in racist attacks, but locally reported incidents tell a worrying story.

Last week, a man in Basildon was arrested after being treated racist, while Vandalz sprayed the St. George Cross in nearby houses.

At the end of July, the residents reported the glass shells dumped from the upper floors of a building near the Basilon station, apparently targeting Muslim women and color families.

Besides the main incidents, Maryam retracted a list of other modern examples of the racism that was witnessed – a woman of East African origin called racism, a driver mocking a Muslim woman in the veil as “another square”.

She added, “Unfortunately, I (also) has been subjected to a lot of Islam phobia in Basildon – often in front of my child.” “I affected my mental health … He created a lot of shocks and barriers that simply live a normal life.”

While the mosque attack pushed high attention from advisers and police, isolated accidents against individuals often not reported.

Maryam said: “If the police are better engaged with society, they clarify what hate crimes are, how they are reported, and how investigations work, they will remove the barriers that prevent reports.”