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.

Mughal said: "Cases of verbal abuse against Muslims suggests that perceptions about ISIL motivate anti-Muslim hatred nationally and in London.
"We've had cases of women being abused on the way to the shops, with people shouting at them: 'Why don't we chop your head off?'"
In another case, he said perpetrators shouted at a Muslim woman: "Oh, your head will be much better on the floor."
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.
Source: World Bulletin