Month: December 2019

Hate Crime Towards Women

December 20, 2019 /
The life of a woman..
It had been a cold winter’s night, Jyoti had been travelling back home from her trip to the cinema. Little did she know this would be the last time she would take the bus back home, the last time she could enjoy a movie with her friends.
As she waited for her bus to arrive, she had noticed 5 other passengers, all young men. The doors closed behind her; trapped.
The past hour states how sickening the world is towards women. Jyoti Singh had been raped by all men within the bus, including the driver himself. She and her fellow friend had been left on the road side in the dusk of night and had later passed away, with her dreams of attending medical school with her.
This short description states how women, till this day, are seen as ‘objects’. This HATE CRIME TOWARDS THE FEMALE GENDER MUST END ! No- one should deserve to die like this. It is important for us to end hate crime towards women and hopefully this insight of Jyoti’s story may impact many to begin to treat women equally..
BY: Natasha Janagol

Report, Support, Resolve

December 20, 2019 / / 0 Comments

There are many report systems in place which means no matter who you are or what has happened you can report and people will listen.

Students can be directed to support through the uni, including steps on how to report a Hate incident to the uni.  You can report anonymously or report and get support through Report and Support.  There is some specific information available on reporting  hate crime .

If the incident is specifically muslim related there is the option to report it to Tell MAMA, who are Measuring Anti-Muslim Attacks and can support through the process. tellmamauk.org 

For Anti-Semitic hate crimes or incidents there is the  CST website who like Tell MAMA will support through the process and help where possible. cst.org.uk

Hate crimes, no matter the reason behind them, may also be reported through the True Vision website. Similar to CST and Tell MAMA the True vision site allows a report to be issued no matter what the hate crime. www.report-it.org.uk

Finally any Hate Crime or incident may be reported to your local police station at any time by any one. Support can be received through citizens advice. If there is a wish to stay anonymous you may also call Crimestoppers on 0800 555111 to report a Hate Crime.

No matter who you speak to, what organisation you report it to, please do report any Hate Crime you witness or experience. Nobody has to, nor should they, deal with it alone. We all stand together.

Uyghur Concentration Camps – Religious Hate Crime

December 20, 2019 / / 0 Comments

The Xinjiang re-education camps that have been running since 2017 are argued to mimic the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camps back in 1942. These Chinese concentration camps have been built over three years, imprisoning millions of Muslims and restricting their religious freedom and are arguably a clear example of ‘cultural genocide’. How in this day and age can you forcing someone to be re-educated about religion be moral or legal?

China claims they are receiving ‘vocational training’, but the Uyghur Muslims are instead tortured for their faith. Leaked footage shows the Uyghur Muslim victims imprisoned and indoctrinated for their religious beliefs. A leaked memo states that there should “Never allow escapes” and “Increase discipline and punishment of behavioural violations”.

Although China’s UK ambassador has claimed this is fake news, the evidence from investigation clearly shows the detention camps, which have detained the Uyghur Muslims without trial, is not a voluntary re-education facility for extremism. It is abuse on the Muslim minorities in China, as Lily Kuo states in her article; If you enter a camp, you never come out. Those that have escaped risk life and limb for their beliefs something that should not be happening in 2020. We all have a right to express our religion and beliefs and no one has the right to take that from us, whether Jewish or Muslim or Christian, we all have the freedom to believe.

 

 

WWWW: Welcome, Who, What, Why?

December 20, 2019 / / 0 Comments

Welcome to Stand Together, SHU’s blog regarding Hate Crime and Harassment.

Who are we?

This blog is run by students, who have created these posts in order to raise awareness around the situations involving Hate Crime or harassment that are important to them.

What is the aim?

The aim of this blog is a safe space to raise awareness of Hate Crime and Harassment that students are interested in or are affected by. This can be through personal experience; all information is provided freely and if personal stories are wanting to be shared this can be done anonymously.

Why does the Blog exist?

Standing Together is SHU’s response to the Universities UK Changing the Culture initiative. This initiative was created as there were many cases of harassment, hate crime, or sexual violence, and universities may not always have responded effectively. Through Standing together SHU wishes to raise awareness and let students know that they won’t be unheard. Someone will be there, someone will listen.

Hate Crimes v Politics

December 20, 2019 / / 0 Comments

Every general election the topics of Hate Crimes, discrimination and racism appear; this year Hate Incidents have appeared within the political parties themselves. Both leading parties seem to have issues revolving around Hate and Discrimination.

How can Hate Crime be reduced when the leaders of the country have issues with discrimination in their own parties? Has this given permission for people to be more racist? Hate crime has more than doubled since 2013 (https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/oct/15/hate-crimes-double-england-wales)

One party has members that claims Muslims have a ‘nasty culture’ and always play the ‘race card’ (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/dec/09/tory-candidate-linden-kemkaran-shared-tweet-claiming-muslims-play-race-card). This way of thinking and blatant discrimination is embodied by their leader too. There are many instances of the leader stating their opinion on Islam and Muslims; going as far as stating that Islam is the problem and that women in niqabs look like letterboxes and bank robbers.(https://inews.co.uk/opinion/general-election-results-2019-boris-johnson-conservative-majority-muslim-woman-1340462).This leader’s remarks and actions have been seen to ‘encourage’ racism within football as the UEFA president remarked (https://edition.cnn.com/2019/12/03/football/boris-johnson-ceferin-racism-football-spt-intl/index.html)

Another party appears to have issues within itself when it comes to Anti-Semitism; Anti-Semitism being the specific name to hatred towards people of the Jewish faith. There has been sworn statements from party members about the anti-Semitic abuse they suffer within the party; including being called Zio scum, child killer and being told Hitler was right. (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/dec/05/seventy-labour-staffers-give-statements-to-antisemitism-inquiry). There have been around 673 reports made within 10 months on this (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-43893791).

The issues within the parties has not been unnoticed by the public, especially when some members of the leading party have shown their contempt for Muslims. It is no wonder that the rate of Hate Crimes, especially on Muslim and Jewish victims, has increased the past 5 years since the Muslim hating party has been in power. The statistics show that there has been a significant increase in both Jewish and Muslim hate crimes. 47% of religious Hate Crime were against Muslims while Jewish Hate Crimes were doubled to 18%. Hate crimes have increased in all aspects, doubling in five years. (https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/oct/15/hate-crimes-double-england-wales)

Islamophobic incidents were reportedly risen by 375% after the ‘letterbox’ remark (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/boris-johnson-muslim-women-letterboxes-burqa-islamphobia-rise-a9088476.html ).With the Jewish community being a target four times a day within 2017 (https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/feb/01/antisemitic-incidents-in-uk-at-all-time-high ).

The increase in Hate Crimes has been reported in many areas. Just recently antisemitic incident happened in London (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/antisemitic-hate-crimes-london-bus-attack-jewish-man-stamford-hill-a9246301.html). Also there was a hate incident in Sheffield supposedly due to the fact of the election outcome, (https://www.thestar.co.uk/news/politics/hate-crime-culprits-sheffield-suburb-emboldened-boris-johnson-1341719).  If this is how people are treated in public it is no wonder there is an issue with university students and Hate crime and Harassment.

By Ryan Minion, Serish Khan and Zalmea Naseem.

 

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