As the UK Government prepares to record religious hate crimes against Muslims separately, due to a massive rise in recorded incidents, some human rights activists are arguing that the Government is missing a major phenomenon, possibly due to political correctness: religious hate crimes committed by Muslims.
Crimes especially against those who have converted from Islam, or against non-Muslims who are from predominantly Islamic ethnicities. For many, particularly Christians who are a minority in their own ethnicities, their experience of religious hate in the UK is a continuous one, in some cases approaching the level of persecution in their ‘mother’ countries.
However, it also affects people born and brought up in the UK.
Forced to move house
The Hussain family in Bradford are a high-profile family who have faced 15 years of persecution because they are Christian converts. They have experienced assaults, stones thrown through car and home windows, intimidation, false accusations resulting in arrests, being forced to move house after an arson attack and currently ongoing persecution stemming from one particularly influential Muslim family on their street.
There are also reports of areas in Birmingham where, for both white and Asian Christians, there are no-go areas where it is not safe for non-Muslims to be.
