Over the last 36 hours we have seen a number of cases come into Tell MAMA and the following incident shows, once again, how street based anti-Muslim hatred is also gender specific, with perpetrators mainly being white males and the victims mainly being visible Muslim females.

This was reported in by an Asian female who was not Muslim herself, though she felt angry and yet powerless to intervene. We thank her for reporting in the incident which we will report into the relevant authorities. This is the text of her report with the locations removed. Once again, no commuter intervened to stop the racism and they simply looked away. 

“Just to let you know I saw a man behave inappropriately and make racist comments to a young woman wearing a light blue Hijab on the tube. The incident happened about 5:15pm and occurred at a connecting tube station in North London where a white man wouldn’t sit next to a young girl with a hijab on.”

“He called her a “dirty P***” and “to f*** off back to Syria because girls do not wear hijabs in England”. I wanted to say something but was quite scared as none of the commuters did anything and looked away. She did speak back to him politely and said “I’m a British Pakistani and am not forcing my faith on you or anyone else”. The man said a few more things and eventually sat elsewhere. I wanted to report it because I felt so angry she was subject to this and helpless I couldn’t support her.”

“I felt obligated to let you know as she looked upset and fearful and I felt for her – and whilst I couldn’t do anything at the time I hope this helps raise awareness that this has happened and is unacceptable. It was very unfortunate to watch and I felt sad for her that this might be a sign of things to come given the heightened tensions and terror attacks.”

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The Developing Diversity Directory has been developed by Faith Matters over the last year and through contact and consultation with over 480 mosques in England. Faith Matters undertook focus groups with Muslim women in England around 5 key areas they wanted to see within mosques in terms of core service delivery and each of the mosques was then benchmarked against the 5 areas. The top 100 which met 4 or 5 of the key criteria have been published in this directory and reflect service provision as of February 2010.

We hope that this directory serves Muslim women in giving them a snapshot of mosques that provide good services to them and in assisting other mosques in giving them contact points and mosque institutions that they can work with to ensure that best practice is implemented within their respective institutions.

Further information on the directory can be obtained from the Director of Faith Matters, Fiyaz Mughal OBE on fiyaz@faith-matters.co.uk

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