It’s been a terrifying, heartbreaking and devastating week.
The far-right riots have been decades and decades in the making, through the denial and amplification of Islamophobia by mainstream politicians and the media, and the dehumanisation of Muslims, refugees, migrants, Black people and people of colour, and our communities. This is the white supremacist violent and inevitable concequences.
Here’s my Aljazeera piece.
The only way to ensure the UK never sees such racist riots again, the only way that our communities can feel fully safe and secure in this country, is for the government to embark on a war against dangerous far-right ideologies.
The government must take the far right and its Islamophobic bigotry head on, defend and uphold the internationally recognised rights of asylum seekers and migrants. It must create a new asylum and immigration system that is aligned with international law and respectful of the dignity and humanity of all people.
Further, it must make its stance on Islamophobia clear.
Unless the leaders of this country recognise that hatred of Muslims, migrant and refugees is a source of domestic terror, that it is threatening the very fabric of British society, I am certain that there will be other weeks of shame in this country’s future when minorities are told to stay home for their safety.
The government must now thank the British people who stopped the far right in its tracks, and take immediate action to ensure their efforts were not in vain.
Starmer and his cabinet must defend multiculturalism and simultaneously take action to address the deep-seated inequalities and injustices affecting the UK’s multiracial working classes that allow for far-right ideologies to take hold in our country. Anything else would be capitulating to far-right extremists and handing power to them over all our lives.
Read the full article here 👇🏽
https://lnkd.in/eHYDVSSf
#raceriots #islamophbia