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Friday
Aug072009

Muslim women avoid reporting racism 

Shouts of "Terrorist" and "Osama Bin Laden" on the way into an Eid party. Being chased out of a park crying because a man thinks the way you dress is a danger to children. Both racism. Both to Muslim women. Neither reported to the police.

Catrin Nye of BBC Asian Network has been investigating after a charity set up to offer the women support claimed hundreds of racist crimes against Muslim women in Scotland are going unreported.

BBC News, 6 August 2009

Via ENGAGE