Anti-Muslim Crimes up in UK after Rise of ISIL
The rise of ISIL killings of Muslims and non Muslims in Iraq and Syria has resulted in anti-Muslim hate crime has in London, according to a monitoring group. ● Fiyaz Mughal of Tell Mama, a charity which documents crimes or acts against Muslims in the U.K. based on religious, racial or ethnic hatred, told the Anadolu agency that Muslims were being abused both on and offline following the release of videos showing beheadings carried out by ISIL. [...] The organization also analyzed figures, obtained in a freedom of information request from the Metropolitan police, from 2012 to 2014 and found that there had been an overall increase.