by Virginia Hale

January 4, 2017

 

A Muslim ‘community leader’ has criticised figures showing a fall in ‘hate crime’ cases in Lancashire, claiming that Muslims are living in “fear” in the wake of the Berlin terror attack.

Lancashire Council of Mosques chairman Abdul Hamid Qureshi argued Islamophobia is an “increasing problem”, and that the figures don’t mirror the reality of the situation for the religious community.

The statistics show that the number of hate crime reports has fallen in both Qureshi’s own locality, East Lancashire, and the county as a whole since the June referendum in which Britain voted to leave the European Union (EU).

The declining number of reports fails to reflect Muslims suffering in the wake of Islamic terror attacks, the community leader told the Lancashire Telegraph asserting that Islamophobia is growing.

 

Full article:

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/01/04/muslim-slams-decline-hate-crime-figures/