Islam in Britain: Anti-Muslim crimes get own category in statistics

Tuesday 13 October 2015

Anti-Muslim crimes get own category in statistics

BBC News, Anti-Muslim crimes get own category in statistics, 13 Oct 2015 "Anti-Muslim hate crimes will be recorded as a separate category by all police forces in England and Wales, the prime minister has said." Also see BBC News, Hate crimes reported to police up 18% in England and Wales "Police recorded 52,528 hate crimes in 2014-15, up from 44,471 in 2013-14, with more than 80% being racially motivated, the statistics showed."

Islamic Algorithms

Gary R. Bunt is Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David; Principal Investigator for the ESRC funded Digital British Islam project; Co-Investigator for the CHANSE funded Digital Islam Across Europe project.

Prof. Bunt's book Hashtag Islam: How Cyber Islamic Environments are Transforming Religious Authority was published in 2018. A new book, Islamic Algorithms, is out in May 2024.

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