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Old 03-10-2025, 23:52   #65
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Re: Manchester synagogue attack

Antisemitism is a well understood thing and its formal definition is accepted by all except those who don't like Jews.

Islamophobia hasn't been formally defined and that's because you have to define the irrationality element that is to be deprecated. At the moment, as events have shown over the last 20 years or so, Islamophobia doesn't really exist. There is a genuine fear of Islam at the moment and the demonstrations and immigration numbers do nothing to lessen that fear. Hence no phobia.

With regard to your statistics, they need to be carefully assessed. The BBC has done the reporting, quoting Tell Mama in the cases of Muslims & the Community Security Trust in the cases of Jews. Each of those charities is aligned to the respective community and are not official bodies.

It is also the case that those numbers you quoted were all related to the October 7th massacre and subsequent Israeli reaction. So that's a packed situation and in the UK, it's Muslim people who who commit terrorist acts in the UK not Jews.

Also to bear in mind, there are c. 4 million Muslims in the UK and 300,000 Jews. That would surely affect the balance of reports as Chris has observed.


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