{"id":7519,"date":"2024-10-22T16:48:45","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T15:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/?p=7519"},"modified":"2024-10-22T16:48:46","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T15:48:46","slug":"home-office-report-on-hate-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/2024\/10\/22\/home-office-report-on-hate-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Office Report on Hate Crime in England and Wales (updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m reporting this because it is also a significant online issue, which both <a href=\"http:\/\/digitalbritishislam.com\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"digitalbritishislam.com\">Digital British Islam<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/DIGITAL ISLAM ACROSS EUROPE  The University of Edinburgh https:\/\/blogs.ed.ac.uk \u203a digitalislameurope\">Digitial Islam Across Europe <\/a>are investigating.  The original Home Office Report is here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/statistics\/hate-crime-england-and-wales-year-ending-march-2024\/hate-crime-england-and-wales-year-ending-march-2024\">Home Office, Office of Statistics, Hate crime, England and Wales, year ending March 2024, October 2024<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/statistics\/hate-crime-england-and-wales-year-ending-march-2024\">Data Sets<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have not had an opportunity to crunch the numbers on this, but there are some analyses, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bylinetimes.com\/2024\/10\/14\/home-office-hate-crime-statistics-islamophobia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mustafa Al-Dabbagh, Byline Times, \u2018Why Yvette Cooper&#8217;s Claim That Middle East Conflict is Behind UK Hate Crime Spike &#8216;Completely Misses the Point &#8211; The Problem Runs Far Deeper&#8217;, 14 Oct 2024<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe numbers don\u2019t lie. According to the latest Home Office data, nearly 40% of religiously motivated hate crimes in the UK target Muslims. This staggering statistic should shock us all, yet it often doesn\u2019t.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The statistics themselves relate to England and Wales, but nevertheless, the points are valid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can read some online responses to this article from my original X post via the link below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThe numbers don\u2019t lie. According to the latest Home Office data, nearly 40% of religiously motivated hate crimes in the UK target Muslims. This staggering statistic should shock us all, yet it often doesn\u2019t. \u201c <br><br>from:  \u2018Why Yvette Cooper&#39;s Claim That Middle East Conflict is\u2026<\/p>&mdash; Gary Bunt (@garybunt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/garybunt\/status\/1846327376445157516?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 15, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also see: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8The Home Office revealed 3,866 reported hate crimes incidents targeting Muslims, in the year ending March 2024, making Muslims the most impacted.<br><br>We continue to see a horrifying rise of Islamophobic attacks, including the extreme far-right riots.<br><br>The MCB continues work to\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ehBkQ12MjL\">pic.twitter.com\/ehBkQ12MjL<\/a><\/p>&mdash; MCB (@MuslimCouncil) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MuslimCouncil\/status\/1846487279033852209?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 16, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Update 22 Oct 2024:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalbritishislam.com\/islamophobia-home-office-report\/\">Sadek Hamid, Digital British Islam, The Rise of Islamophobic Hate Crimes in the UK: Findings from the Home Office Report, 22 Oct 2024 <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m reporting this because it is also a significant online issue, which both Digital British Islam and Digitial Islam Across Europe are investigating. The original Home Office Report is here: Home Office, Office of Statistics, Hate crime, England and Wales, year ending March 2024, October 2024. Data Sets I have not had an opportunity to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[413,449,216,552],"tags":[339,414,685],"class_list":["post-7519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-muslim-hate","category-anti-muslim-prejudice","category-british-muslims","category-digital-british-islam","tag-islamophobia","tag-anti-muslim-hate","tag-anti-muslim-prejudice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7519"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7560,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7519\/revisions\/7560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}