LONDON: Dozens of leading UK imams (religious leaders) have issued a joint statement condemning the right-wing media and politicians for normalising hatred of Islam, Muslims and immigrants — resulting in riots that have erupted almost across Britain.
In a statement, the imams have said: “For decades, through the War on Terror discourse of “terrorism”, “extremism”, and the purported failure of multiculturalism, by predominantly neoconservative politicians across the political spectrum have fuelled the narrative that migrants generally, and Muslims in particular, are the problem.
“Fundamentally connected to these policies is the ongoing genocide against Palestinians by the rogue occupier of Palestine, Israel. Zionist far-right agitators, such as Tommy Robinson amongst others, who have a history of support from pro-Israeli neoconservatives in the United States and the United Kingdom, have been mobilising a pushback, often violent and disorderly, against pro-Palestine protests.
