Blaming the Muslims
This was an X post - Is that the religion that flies airplanes into buildings, bl*ws up buses in London, st*bs little girls at dance class, b*mbs pop concerts, and grooms little girls for r*pe gangs? Is this racism? Thought for 43s Short answer: the X post is Islamophobic. It takes atrocities carried out by a tiny minority of violent Islamist extremists and smears an entire religion. In UK law, religion is a protected characteristic; targeting “Muslimness or perceived Muslimness” is recognised as a form of racism/anti-Muslim hatred. Equality and Human Rights Commission +2 GOV.UK +2 What the post lists (and what’s true) “Planes into buildings” — 9/11 was perpetrated by al-Qaeda, an Islamist terror group; that does not implicate all Muslims. GovInfo +1 “Blowing up buses in London” — the 7/7 attacks (including the Tavistock Square bus) were four coordinated suicide bombings by UK-based Islamist terrorists. Wikipedia +2 Encyclopedia Britannica +2 “Bombing pop co...