After the horror of the Christchurch massacre and the attacks on Birmingham mosques, say no to Islamophobia

In the wake of the attacks on mosques in Birmingham in Erdington, Aston, Perry Barr and two other local attacks, which of course come just days after the appalling Christchurch massacre, anti-racists are calling for swift measures and leadership to stop Islamophobia.

Years of Islamophobia & scapegoating of Muslims by many mainstream politicians and much of the media has given confidence to the far right. The sledgehammer terror in Birmingham is yet another example of violent hate crimes that the Muslim community face.

Islamophobia has become a rallying point for the racist and fascist right from Trump’s Muslim ban to Boris Johnson’s letter box comments about Muslim women to the hate narrative of Tommy Robinson & UKIP. Where islamophobia takes hold, anti-Semitism follows. We all stand shoulder to shoulder & we will not allow violence and islamophobia to divide or silence us. We live in a multi-cultural country, which we will fight to defend.