Rise in race crimes 'due to war on terror'

[bin.dare]

18 January 2005

Racist crime in England and Wales reached record levels last year, prompting fears of an outbreak of Islamophobia sparked by the war on terror.

Figures published by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) today show prosecutions of racially aggravated offences have increased by 2,500 since race-hate laws were introduced in 1999. In the past two years, those prosecutions have jumped by more than 20 per cent.

Today's report confirms fears raised by Muslim and Asian leaders that there is a link between the war on terror and a rise in racist incidents.
Last year, the Director of Public Prosecutions warned that a growth in race-hate crime and a sharp rise in the number of young Asian men being stopped by the police threatened to alienate Britain's Muslim communities.

That picture is supported by prosecutions of religiously aggravated crime, which has more than doubled in the past year with Muslims identified as the victims in half of all cases.

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http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/story.jsp?story=601971

[ixion]

1. the fashionable racist barbarian

thanks BushCo, for making barbarianism and racism fashionable; and worse, socially acceptable. :-( :eyes:

[saigon68]

2. The "Kill the Rag heads" rhetoric sooner or later is translated

Into kicking the shit out of the Rag-Head's kid in the schools. Or burning down the Rag-Head's house.