Declining morals fueling hate crimes in UK: Analyst
A decline in moral standards caused by British politicians, media and education system has led to a sharp rise in hate crimes across the UK, says a Muslim pundit in the UK.
Sayed-Mohammed Musawi, the Chairman of World Islamic league, made the remarks while discussing a new report that shows hateful behavior has reached unprecedented levels in the Greater Manchester area.
According to the Guardian report released Monday, more than a third of residents in Britain’s second-most populous urban area have been targeted with hate crimes because of their religion, race and ethnicity.
The report suggested that some 33 percent of respondents to a survey carried out in the city said they had experienced hate crime and some 16 percent said such experiences have been “frequent.”
Musawi blamed the dangerous trend on the political atmosphere “instigated by some political in the UK and mainly, in the United States.”
The media was also playing a big role in hyping up issues that would eventually lead to hate crimes, the analyst added.
The education system in the UK was not properly tackling the problem either and as a result British people were not prepared to deal with the issue, he said.
“0ne of the more important things that we are suffering from is that the moral system is declining because of many factors and it is because of that moral decline that we find hate crimes rise in Manchester and other areas,” he said.
The atmosphere currently dominating the British politics, the negative coverage by the media, the malfunctioning education system, a lack of compliance with religious teachings and the declining moral system were the five main factors that he said had to be addressed to resolve the issue.
Critics say the British government has stigmatized many youth by referring them to programs like Prevent, saying such moves help radicalization as it excluded people from the normal social life.
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