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Muslim rioters say police discrimination motivated them
The Guardian 9 December 2011
By Shiv Malik
Like many black rioters interviewed by Guardian/LSE researchers as part of the Reading the Riots study, many Muslims involved in the August disorder said that racial discrimination by the police had fuelled their anger and lawlessness.
One 19-year-old Muslim who took part in the riots in Clapham Junction, south London, said he was always being stopped and searched for having a backpack and a beard. "It started from [an] early [age], from the Twin Towers," he said. The generation of Muslim youth who took part in August's riots were also the first group of British Muslims who grew up with the September 11 attacks and the Iraq war as the formative political experiences of their early years.
A young Muslim woman of mixed race who had travelled to Peckham, south London, to "get her own back" on police, said a mixture of racism and Islamophobia from central London police had played a part in motivating her to take part in the riots.
"I've heard friends who've told me that they [the police] have called them Pakis, they've called them Bin Laden's son … Stupid things like that … obviously things to wind them up so police officers then have an excuse to arrest you." (...)
Posted December 9th, 2011 by pk
Muslim rioters say police discrimination motivated them
The Guardian 9 December 2011
By Shiv Malik
Like many black rioters interviewed by Guardian/LSE researchers as part of the Reading the Riots study, many Muslims involved in the August disorder said that racial discrimination by the police had fuelled their anger and lawlessness.
One 19-year-old Muslim who took part in the riots in Clapham Junction, south London, said he was always being stopped and searched for having a backpack and a beard. "It started from [an] early [age], from the Twin Towers," he said. The generation of Muslim youth who took part in August's riots were also the first group of British Muslims who grew up with the September 11 attacks and the Iraq war as the formative political experiences of their early years.
A young Muslim woman of mixed race who had travelled to Peckham, south London, to "get her own back" on police, said a mixture of racism and Islamophobia from central London police had played a part in motivating her to take part in the riots.
"I've heard friends who've told me that they [the police] have called them Pakis, they've called them Bin Laden's son … Stupid things like that … obviously things to wind them up so police officers then have an excuse to arrest you." (...)
Posted December 9th, 2011 by pk
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