Tower Hamlets has one of the oldest and largest Muslim population in Europe, corresponding to the largest concentration of mosque in any United Kingdom local authority area. This corresponds with the population of Mile End Ward, which is generally reflective of the population of the Borough in terms of demographics.
This has lead me in the last few days to have conversations with Mosque leaders and congregation members as to what practical steps can be taken:
1. Risk Assessment and Better Lighting
In light of the Christchurch attack and the heightened risk of Islamophobic violence against Muslim places of worship, I have written to the following social landlords who’s estates incorporate local mosques in Mile End. I have written to the following social Landlords in Mile End:
- East End Homes – Hamlets Way Mosque
- Poplar HARCA – Leopold, Burdett and Hind Grove Estate Mosques
- Tower Hamlets Homes – Salmon Lane Mosque
- Gateway Housing – Turners Road Mosque
I have asked them to carry out additional risk assessments and improve lighting as an immediate steop, bust also to come back to me with any other measures they are contemplating to improve safety at the mosques.
2. The Home Office to resume the Worship Security Fund
I have written to the Mayor, asking him to write to the Home Office asking them to resume applications for their Worship Security Fund. This is a fund launched in 2016, which helps churches mosques, temples and gurdwaras to install alarms security, lighting and CCTV cameras, with bids upto £56,000 per place if worship could be submitted.
3. Long Term – Coalition needed to tackle the rise of the Alt Right
The above a short term measures, but long term there needs to be coalition of stakeholders tackling the underlying reasons that creates a culture where Islamophobia and violence against Muslims are accepted norm.
Media accounts to the contrary, the Alt-Right didn’t just burst out of nowhere in 2016. They have been building their network quietly for years, using bulletin boards and social media to spread a toxic hybrid of technological utopianism, reactionary philosophy, and racial hatred. Wendling traces the rise of the movement and the evolution of its ideas, and he introduces us to some of its key figures. Exploring links between Alt-Right rhetoric and hate crimes and terrorism, he shows that the evidence connecting them is undeniable.
Alt Right: From 4Chan to the White House by Mike Wendling
The targeted communities around the world, refugees, asylum seekers, migrants, and others viewed as “foreign” have been the targets of violent attacks. Xenophobic, racist and other forms of bias-motivated violence have a devastating and crippling effect on the minor communities.
Inadequate response or system in place from the state sometimes ignite bias-motivated violence as we can see from the Newzealand that a person can possess five lethal weapons where the state is allowed them to maintain. Newzealand is a peaceful country, and we don’t understand why a person should hold weapons when there is not any threat to his own life.
With the help of the police and legal executive some points of the plan should remind ourselves for combating hate crime and marginalisation:
1. Support the anti-fascist organisation and acknowledge and condemn violent hate crime
2. Monitor and report hate crime
3. Create and strengthen the anti-discrimination organisation. attending the meeting, handing out flyers, donating funds, writing letters to elected officials, joining rallies
4. Reach out to community groups, support marginal voices
5. Must address structural discrimination as well as sporadic violence
6. Join Black Lives Matter marches
7. Community Cultural centres host a diverse range of cohesive community programme to integrate other community – attend and support them
8. Reach out to your local Synagogues, Church, Mosque, Gurdwara and ask them you might best help them
9. ‘TellMAMA’ is a Measuring Anti-Muslim Attacks (MAMA) is a secure and reliable service that allows people from across England to report any form of Anti-Muslim abuse. Keep in touch with them
10. It is crucial to know who – and what you are voting for
11. Keep quiet, make you more marginalised, so please speak out against far-right campaign
One particular obstacle is the problem of underreporting to the government. Underreporting of crimes remains one of the principle impediments to improved government responses, especially among irregular migrants, refugees, asylum seekers, and displaced persons, and other vulnerable minorities. So, take a part and report Xenophobic violence to government’s organisation to combat it.
The targeted communities around the world, refugees, asylum seekers, migrants, and others viewed as “foreign” have been the targets of violent attacks. Xenophobic, racist and other forms of bias-motivated violence have a devastating and crippling effect on the minor communities.
Inadequate response or system in place from the state sometimes ignite bias-motivated violence as we can see from the Newzealand that a person can possess five lethal weapons where the state is allowed them to maintain. Newzealand is a peaceful country, and we don’t understand why a person should hold weapons when there is not any threat to his own life.
With the help of the police and legal executive some points of the plan should remind ourselves for combating hate crime and marginalisation:
1.Support the anti-fascist organisation and acknowledge and condemn violent hate crime
2.Monitor and report hate crime
3.Create and strengthen the anti-discrimination organisation. attending the meeting, handing out flyers, donating funds, writing letters to elected officials, joining rallies
4.Reach out to community groups, support marginal voices
5.Must address structural discrimination as well as sporadic violence
6.Loin Black Live Matters marches
7.Community Cultural centres host a diverse range of cohesive community programme to integrate other community – attend and support them
8.Reach out to your local Synagogues, Church, Mosque, Gurdwara and ask them you might best help them
9. ‘TellMAMA’ is a Measuring Anti-Muslim Attacks (MAMA) is a secure and reliable service that allows people from across England to report any form of Anti-Muslim abuse. Keep in touch with them
10.It is crucial to know who – and what you are voting for
11. Keep quiet, make you more marginalised, so please speak out against far-right campaign
One particular obstacle is the problem of underreporting to the government. Underreporting of crimes remains one of the principle impediments to improved government responses, especially among irregular migrants, refugees, asylum seekers, and displaced persons, and other vulnerable minorities. So, take a part and report Xenophobic violence to government’s organisation to combat it.