A report by the CLAIM network reveals a 114 percent rise in anti-Muslim incidents in Germany last year.
Verbal abuse, primarily targeting women, was the most common form of attack, alongside four attempted murders. / Photo: DPA
These are some of the record 1,926 anti-Muslim incidents registered in Germany last year by the CLAIM network of NGOs monitoring Islamophobia and anti-Muslim hatred.Yet authorities are paying insufficient attention to this phenomenon, and even denying its existence, as mainstream parties take over policies of far-right, anti-Islam parties that have surged in popularity, Rima Hanano told a Berlin news conference on Monday to present the report.
"The streets, buses or mosques are no longer safe places for people who are Muslim or perceived as such," said Hanano."Anti-Muslim racism was never as socially acceptable as today and it comes from the middle of society." The CLAIM report tallies a 140 percent increase in Islamophobic crimes last year recorded by the interior ministry, and a survey shows one in two Germans hold Islamophobic views.
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